China's Development and China-U.S. Relations

Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese ambassador to the US, to give the 2009 Charles W. Hostler lecture at San Diego State University

About the speaker

Ambassador Zhou was born in Jiangsu Province, China. After studying at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom for two years, he joined the Department of Translation and Interpretation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in 1975. From 1978 to 1983, he served as Attaché and Third Secretary at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America in Washington, DC. In 1987, he was named Deputy Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco and was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda in 1990.He then served as Consul General of China to Los Angeles in 1994 and as Minister and DCM of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC in 1995. He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia from 1998 to 2001 In 2003, he was named Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China.

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Sponsored by the Charles W. Hostler Institute on World Affairs. Since its founding in 1942, the Hostler Institute has served as an academic and public policy forum for the analysis and discussion of international relations.

Ambassador Zhou's lecture coincides with the official opening of our Confucius Institute. For more information about the Confucius Institute, visit http://confucius.sdsu.edu/about.html