Since 2010, Ambassasdor Zhou Wenzhong has served as Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia, and as the Vice President of the China-U.S. People's Friendship Association.
Zhou’s prior positions include Attaché and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the US; Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director and then Division Director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; Deputy Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco; and Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda from 1990 to 1993.
In 1993, Zhou became the Deputy Director General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. Subsequently, he worked as the Consul General (Ambassadorial Rank) of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles. He was later the Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America, and then the Ambassador to Australia.
From 2001 to 2003, Zhou became the Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, and later promoted to the Vice Minister. From 2005 to 2010, Zhou was the Ambassador to the United States.
He studied at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom during 1973 to 1975.
