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Dai Bingguo

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Dai.
Dai Bingguo
戴秉国
Dai in 2009
Chairman of Jinan University
In office
15 November 2013 – 15 November 2019
PresidentHu Jun → Song Xianzhong
Preceded byQian Weichang
State Councilor of China
In office
17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013
PremierWen Jiabao
Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group
In office
April 2005 – August 2013
General SecretaryHu Jintao → Xi Jinping
Foreign MinisterLi Zhaoxing → Yang Jiechi
Preceded byLiu Huaqiu
Succeeded byYang Jiechi
Personal details
Born (1941-03-31) March 31, 1941 (age 84)
Yinjiang County, Guizhou, Republic of China
PartyChinese Communist Party
Alma materSichuan University
China Foreign Affairs University

Dai Bingguo (simplified Chinese: 戴秉国; traditional Chinese: 戴秉國; pinyin: Dài Bǐngguó; born March 31, 1941) is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Starting in 2008, Dai emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration.

A graduate of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian language, Dai was instrumental in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union. Between 1989 and 1991 Dai served as the Chinese ambassador to Hungary. He then served in a succession of roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He served as a State Councilor, director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group of CCP Central Committee, an office that acts as the primary foreign affairs organ of the Chinese Communist Party, and director of the general office of the National Security Leadership Group of the CCP Central Committee, in which he serves in the capacity as a national security advisor to the CCP General Secretary.

Early life

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Dai Bingguo was born in a village located in Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province. He belongs to the Tujia ethnic minority. He graduated from the Department of foreign languages of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian, and later studied at the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) during 1964 to 1965. Shortly after, he spent a year in Liuyang, Hunan, taking part in the Socialist Education Movement.[1]: 278 [2]

Diplomatic career

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In 1966, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working in the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs until 1969, when he was assigned to the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union as an attaché. He served in Moscow until 1973. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1973. After returning to China, he spent a year engaged in labour work at the Ministry’s May 7th Cadre School. From the mid-1970s onward, he took on increasingly senior responsibilities within the Ministry. Between 1974 and 1985, he served in the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs as a staff member, deputy division director and later division director. During this period, he also worked as deputy head of the Ministry’s Sino-Soviet Negotiation Office from 1980 to 1982, and as part of the Central Party Rectification Steering Committee’s liaison group in Anhui from 1983 to 1985. His leadership roles expanded further when he became deputy director-general of the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs in 1985, and its director-general from 1986 to 1989. He went on to serve as China’s Ambassador to Hungary from 1989 to 1991.[1]: 279 [2]

Following his ambassadorial tenure, he returned to Beijing as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the ministry’s Party Committee from 1991 to 1993. He then served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Party Committee from 1993 to 1995. In June 1995, Dai was transferred from the "foreign affairs system" of the State Council to the "international liaison system" of the Central Committee of the CCP and became Vice Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CCP.[2] In August 1997, on the eve of the 15th CCP National Congress, he was promoted to Director of the International Department. In May 2003, Dai returned to the Foreign Ministry and served as Vice Minister until April 2008, being responsible for handling the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Foreign affairs leader

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In March 2008, he was appointed State Councillor and Party group member on the State Council.

Wang Qishan and former State Councilor Dai Bingguo holding a basketball in the Oval Office with U.S. President Barack Obama (2009)

On July 8, 2009, Dai replaced Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy[3] after Hu had to leave the summit because of July 2009 Ürümqi riots involving Uyghurs and Han-Chinese.

Dai Bingguo (right) and J.N. Dixit in 2004, 3rd round of talks of the Special Representative mechanism on the India-China boundary question

Dai was appointed by Chinese leader Hu Jintao as his special representative to chair the Strategic Track of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue for the Chinese side in 2009.[citation needed]

During Hu Jintao's administration, Dai developed the concept of China's "core interests" to define the primary goals that determine the country's foreign policy choices.[4]: 193  The core interests are: maintaining the power of the Communist Party, continuing China's social and economic growth, and preservation of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.[4]: 193  China also views these core interests as red lines that other countries' behavior should not cross.[4]: 193 

On October 7, 2012, Dai Bingguo met with Hsieh Chang-ting, the former Premier of the Republic of China, who was visiting mainland China in his private capacity, in Beijing. Dai and Hsieh exchanged views on topics of mutual interest.

In March 2013, Dai Bingguo retired as a State Councillor at the end of his term and retired from politics in China.

Post-retirement

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Dai Bingguo became chairman of Jinan University[5]: 82  in November 2013, and he stepped down as chairman in November 2019.

In September 2019, Dai Bingguo represented Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend memorial ceremonies held by the French government in Paris for late President Jacques Chirac.

Personal

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Dai Bingguo's father-in-law is former Culture Minister Huang Zhen.

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ a b Funabashi, Yoichi (2008). The Peninsula Question: A Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780815730118.
  2. ^ a b c "戴秉国" [Dai Bingguo]. Institute of International and Strategic Studies Peking University. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  3. ^ "Chinese President Hu Jintao cancels G8 attendance". MarketWatch. 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  4. ^ a b c Šimalčík, Matej (2023). "China in the World". In Kironska, Kristina; Turscanyi, Richard Q. (eds.). Contemporary China: a New Superpower?. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-239508-1.
  5. ^ Loh, Dylan M.H. (2024). China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503638204.
  6. ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 28.07.2011 г. № 1025". President of Russia. 2011-07-28. Retrieved December 6, 2025.
  7. ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 31.10.2007 г. № 1440". President of Russia. 2007-10-31. Retrieved December 6, 2025.
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