Tian Zengpei (; 8 October 1930 – 10 January 2024) was a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as from 1984 to 1985, Chinese Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1986 to 1988, and chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1998 to 2003. Tian was a member of the

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Biography

Tian was born in Raoyang County,

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

, on 8 October 1930. He attended Tianjin No. 1 High School. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages,

Nankai University Nankai University is a public university in Tianjin, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Nankai University was establ ...

. He joined the

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(CCP) in November 1947. He was sent abroad to study at the Central Youth League School of the Communist Youth League of the Soviet Union 1951 and returned to China in 1952. He worked at the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee from 1954 to 1958. Tian joined the Foreign Service in 1970 and has served primarily in the Eastern Europe Division. He was counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union in 1976, in addition to serving as counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. He served as the from April 1984 through March 1985. He was director of the Eastern Europe Division of the

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in 1985, and held that office until 1986. He served as the Chinese Ambassador to Yugoslavia from June 1986 until April 1988, when he was succeeded by . In April 1988, he became vice minister of foreign affairs, a post he kept until March 1998. He also served as a member of the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region since June 1990. He took office as chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in March 1998, serving in the post until his retirement in March 2003. Tian died on 10 January 2024, at the age of 93.外交部党委原书记、副部长田曾佩逝世，享年94岁

References

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