Wang Chao, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, was recently appointed president of Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA).

Wang was born in 1960 in north China's Hebei Province. After graduating from the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages, he worked at the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). In 2003, he was director general at the Department of American and Oceanian Affairs of MOFCOM.

After 2004, Wang held the position of mayor of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province before he returned to MOFCOM in 2010.

In 2013, Wang became vice minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of European affairs, translation, archives and Party affairs until his recent appointment.

The CPIFA was founded in December 1949 with a focus on people-to-people exchange.