Wu Dawei

Wu Dawei is the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

Wu's career has largely taken him back and forth between China and Japan. His first assignment with the was as an attaché to the Chinese embassy in Japan, lasting from 1973 to 1979. He returned to China in 1979 to take a position in the MFA's Department of Asian Affairs, and in 1980 was promoted to deputy office director of the General Office. He went to Japan again in 1985 to serve as second secretary and later first secretary in in the Chinese embassy; after coming back to China in 1989, he continued to work his way up through the ranks of the Department of Asian Affairs. In 1994, he was posted back to Japan as minister counselor. His comments spurred South Korean human rights activists to hold protests at the Chinese embassy in Seoul and circulate a petition urging the United Nations to grant refugee status to North Koreans in China.

Following his time in South Korea, Wu became China's ambassador to Japan, serving from July 2001 until August 2004; he returned to China to take up his post as Vice Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of that assignment.

Wu is married and has one daughter.