Li Jinjun


Li Jinjun is a Chinese diplomat and currently the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea.

Life and career

Li was born and raised in Jiangyin, Jiangsu. He entered Shanghai International Studies University in September 1972, majoring in German language, where he graduated in March 1974. Then he was accepted to the University of Heidelberg and graduated in April 1976. After graduation, he returned to China and that year he was assigned to the International Department of the Communist Party of China.
He was Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Huantai County from September 1993 to October 1994.
In January 2001 he was promoted to become the Chinese Ambassador to Burma, a position he held until December 2005, when he was transferred to the Philippines and appointed the Chinese Ambassador.
He became the Deputy Head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China in March 2007, he remained in that position until March 2015, when he was appointed the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea.