Published: October 26th, 2021,
Last updated: October 26th, 2021
Hua Chunying, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s information department, was promoted to the position of Assistant Foreign Minister, according to the ministry’s website. The 51-year-old Hua, who headed the information department of the Foreign Ministry since July 2019, is now the Assistant Foreign Minister and is now in charge of information, protocol, and translation work in the ministry. She is known to foreign journalists in the country through the daily press conference, which Hua most recently chaired as a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry.