BEIJING, December 30(AseanAll) Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang has been appointed Foreign Minister of China on Friday（December 30）.

According to the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the decision to appoint Qin China’s new top diplomat was made at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.

Qin, 56, and currently China's ambassador to the United States, replaces Wang Yi,who has headed the Chinese Foreign Ministry since 2013. Wang, 69, was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and will play a more important role in diplomacy.

Qin Gang was born in March 1966 in Tianjin.He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China for a long time. He once served as a Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, served as Director General of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He began to serve as the Chinese Ambassador to the United States in July 2021.