Mr. YU Ping Vice Chairman, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade(CCPIT)

Mr. Yu Ping, of Han nationality, was born in June 1955 in Haiyang City, Shandong Province. He graduated from the English department of the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1975, later completed training in the advanced studies program on International Trade, in the Department of Finance and Trade, the Graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and is now having, starting from September 2002, the in-service training program for EMBA degree in the Peking University.

Mr. Yu entered the Ministry of Foreign Trade in June 1976, and transferred to the Liaison Department (now the Department of International Relations) of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) in February 1977, and studied Literature and English between October 1977 and July 1979 in the Bayero University, Nigeria.

Mr. Yu became Deputy Director of the Division of European Affairs, the Department of International Relations, CCPIT in June 1985, Director of the Division in May 1988, Deputy Director General of the Department in February 1990, Director General of the Department in March 1994, and the CCPIT US Chief Representative in July 1995. Mr. Yu became Deputy Secretary General of the CCPIT in July 1999, and took the concurrent seat of Director General of the Personnel Department of the CCPIT in April 2002. Mr. Yu was appointed as Vice Chairman of the CCPIT and the China Chamber of International Commerce in August 2003.