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Dai Bingguo | |
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| 戴秉国 | |
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| Chairman of Jinan University | |
| In office 15 November 2013 – 15 November 2019 | |
| President | Hu Jun → Song Xianzhong |
| Preceded by | Qian Weichang |
| State Councilor of the People's Republic of China | |
| In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013 | |
| Premier | Wen Jiabao |
| Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group | |
| In office April 2005 – August 2013 | |
| General Secretary | Hu Jintao → Xi Jinping |
| Foreign Minister | Li Zhaoxing → Yang Jiechi |
| Preceded by | Liu Huaqiu |
| Succeeded by | Yang Jiechi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 31, 1941 Yinjiang County, Guizhou, Republic of China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | Sichuan 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 general office of Central Foreign Affairs Commission 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.