Chen Di (diplomat)

Chen Di (July 1940 - , ), a native of Qingpu, Shanghai, is a diplomat in the People's Republic of China.

Biography

In August 1964, Chen Di was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following his graduation from the Russian Department of the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages, and in September 1970, he was transferred to the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the former Soviet Union. He held the positions of attaché at the Chinese Embassy in the former Soviet Union, deputy director of the Soviet-European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, director of the Department of Cadres, political counselor at the Embassy in the former Soviet Union, director of the Research Office, and deputy at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia. He served as ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania in April 1992.

He served as the ambassador to Kazakhstan in September 1993. Throughout his ambassadorship, he engaged in investigating the exoneration of Yu Xiusong and effectively assisted Yu's descendants in clarifying the issue.

In March 1998, he was appointed as the Ambassador of China to the Republic of Poland. In October 2000, upon his return from his tenure as Polish Ambassador, Chen Di was bestowed the Knight's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta by Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, in acknowledgment of his significant contributions to enhancing Sino-Polish relations.