Yu Jianhua

Yu Jianhua
Yu Jianhua
俞建华
Head of the General Administration of Customs
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; April 2022
Preceded by	Ni Yuefeng
Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland
	In office; 2017–2019
Preceded by	Ma Zhaoxu
Succeeded by	Chen Xu
Personal details
Born	December 1961 (age 62); Yancheng County, Jiangsu, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Yancheng Teachers University; China Foreign Affairs University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	俞建华
Traditional Chinese	俞建華
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yú Jiànhuá

Yu Jianhua (Chinese: 俞建华; born December 1961) is a Chinese politician and diplomat who is the current head of the General Administration of Customs.

Biography

Yu was born in Yancheng County (now Yancheng), Jiangsu, in December 1961. He studied at Wuyou High School, and in 1978, he was accepted to Yancheng Teachers University, majoring in the Department of Foreign Languages. After graduation, he taught at the university. In 1988, he became a graduate student at the China Foreign Affairs University. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1991.

After graduation, he was assigned to the Ministry of Economy and Trade (later reshuffled as Ministry of Commerce), where he was promoted to assistant minister in January 2011. In October 2013, he was appointed permanent representative of China to the World Trade Organization, a position he held until February 2017, when he was promoted to vice minister of Commerce and deputy representative for international trade negotiations. In December 2017, he was made ambassador of the permanent mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland, but only held the position for a year and a half. In April 2019, he was recalled to be vice minister of Commerce and deputy representative for international trade negotiations.^[1] In January 2021, he rose to become representative for international trade negotiations, although he remained a vice minister of Commerce.^[2]

In April 2022, he took office as head of the General Administration of Customs, succeeding Ni Yuefeng.^[3]

References

^ Gao Lou (高楼) (18 April 2019). 瑞士归来，俞建华二度出任商务部副部长. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
^ Zhuang Yu (庄彧) (22 February 2018). 俞建华任中国常驻联合国日内瓦办事处和瑞士其他国际组织代表(简历). ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
^ 俞建华任海关总署党委书记. Beijing News (in Chinese). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Yi Xiaozhun [zh]	Permanent Representative of China to the World Trade Organization 2013–2017	Succeeded by Zhang Xiangchen [zh]
Government offices
Preceded by Ni Yuefeng	Head of the General Administration of Customs 2022–present	Incumbent

[1] Gao Lou (高楼) (18 April 2019). 瑞士归来，俞建华二度出任商务部副部长. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 April 2022.

[2] Zhuang Yu (庄彧) (22 February 2018). 俞建华任中国常驻联合国日内瓦办事处和瑞士其他国际组织代表(简历). ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 April 2022.

[3] 俞建华任海关总署党委书记. Beijing News (in Chinese). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.

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