Wang Jiaxiang

Wang Jiaxiang
王稼祥
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Soviet Union
In office
1951–1956
PresidentLiu Shaoqi
Personal details
Born(1906-08-15)15 August 1906
Jing County, Anhui
Died25 January 1974(1974-01-25) (aged 67)
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materMoscow Sun Yat-sen University
OccupationPolitician, Communist Revolutionary

Wang Jiaxiang[a] (Chinese: 王稼祥; pinyin: Wáng Jiàxiáng; 15 August 1906 – 25 January 1974) was one of the senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in its early stage and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. Wang held a variety of high-level posts in the Party: during the Civil War he was the director of the Red Army's General Office, upon the founding of the People's Republic of China he was the first ambassador to the Soviet Union (and the first ever ambassador of the PRC), and then became the first head of the Party's International Department.[2]

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  2. ^ gbtimes (12 April 2012), Explore Zhejiang: Chinese Ambassador Wang Jiaxiang, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 3 March 2016


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