He Yafei (born 1955) is a Chinese diplomat and currently Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is reported by The Guardian newspaper to have moved post in early 2010.

Biography

He Yafei was born in 1955 is a native of Ningbo

Ningbo

Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...

, Zhejiang

Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 province. He completed studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies

Graduate Institute of International Studies

The Graduate Institute of International Studies, best known as HEI , was founded in 1927 as one of the first institutions in the world dedicated to the study of international relations...

 in Geneva, Switzerland and holds a master's degree. He is a lifelong diplomat. He is now vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His responsibilities include: North America and Oceania, international organizations and conferences, arms control, protocol, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-related foreign affairs. He is married and has one daughter. He represented China during the negotiations of the Copenhagen Accord

Copenhagen Accord

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in December 2009.