Mr. CHEN Xiaodong was born in December 1965 in Lujiang, Anhui Province, China, and graduated with a Master's Degree of Business Administration.
From 2020 to present Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of South Africa
From 2017 to 2020 Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (MFA)
From 2015 to 2017 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Singapore
From 2010 to 2015 Director-General of the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, MFA
From 2008 to 2010 Minister of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
From 2006 to 2008 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Iraq
From 2002 to 2006 Counselor, Deputy Director-General of the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, MFA
From 1999 to 2002 First Secretary, Counselor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Arab Republic of Egypt
From 1997 to 1999 Second Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
From 1994 to 1997 Third Secretary, Deputy Division Director of the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, MFA
From 1990 to 1994 Attaché, Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
From 1989 to 1990 Staff member, Commercial Representation of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
From 1988 to 1989 Staff member, Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, MFA
Married with a daughter.