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Gao Hucheng, has been appointed the international trade representative of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), the ministry said on August 16. Zhong Shan, Vice Minister of Commerce, and Chong Quan, former Assistant to the Minister of Commerce, are Gao's deputies.
The international trade representative takes charge of China's major multilateral or bilateral economic and trade negotiations, and coordinate the stances of concerned parties at home.
The mechanism of trade representatives has been established in response to increasing friction between China and its trading partners since the global financial crisis began.
Gao, 59, has worked with the MOC (formerly the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation) since 1994 and became its vice minister in November 2003. In April 2005, he was appointed chief international trade negotiator of the ministry. | 
