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Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Beijing Forum Keynote Speaker: Qian<br />

Qichen<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2005-11-10<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=92016183<br />

Qian Qichen (1928- ), native <strong>of</strong> Shanghai.Member <strong>of</strong> Political Bureau <strong>of</strong> 15th CPC<br />

Central Committee; vice premier <strong>of</strong> PRC State Council; chairman <strong>of</strong> Macao SAR<br />

Preparatory Committee. He is a consummate diplomat whose negotiating skills and<br />

championship <strong>of</strong> the Party have carried him to the highest echelons <strong>of</strong> government<br />

and Party. Having spent his formative years in the Soviet Union, but speaking<br />

<strong>English</strong> equally fluently, Qian became the first spokesman <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Foreign<br />

Affairs. In this post he achieved world renown for voicing China‘s policies towards its<br />

neighbors and its position on human rights, unbowed by the public criticism from<br />

Western democracies that <strong>of</strong>ten accompanied the hard-line approach with which he<br />

sometimes became associated by virtue <strong>of</strong> his occupation.<br />

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