Shanghai modern figure - Yan Huiqing

Yan Huiqing

Yan Huiqing (1877-1950), zi junren. Zodiac Sign: Cow. A native of Hongkou District, Shanghai.

In 1895, after graduating from the Shanghai Tong literature museum, he went to the United States to study.

He received a bachelor's degree in arts from the University of Virginia in 1900 and returned to China. He successively served as a professor of Chinese at St. John's University in Shanghai, the editor of the English edition of Nanfang Bao, the editor-in-chief of the English-Chinese Dictionary of the Standard Dictionary of the Commercial Press, the second counselor of the Qing Government Embassy in the United States (1908), the chief of the Qing Court Foreign Affairs Department and the editor-in-chief of the English edition of Beijing Daily, the general office of Tsinghua Xuetang, the editor of Hanlin Academy, and the senator of the Qing Court Foreign Affairs Department and Zuo Cheng.

From 1912 he served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Lu Zhengxiang and Liang Ruhao), Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of China to Germany (1913) and Minister to Denmark and Sweden, Minister general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (1920-1922, 1926), Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (President Li Yuanhong), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank and Water Supply Company of The Mainland of Tianjin, Member of the Special Committee for Foreign Affairs of the National Government (1931), Minister to the United States, Chief Representative of China to the Executive Yuan meeting of the League of Nations and Head of the Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations (1931), Ambassador of the Nationalist Government to the Soviet Union (1933-1936), Chairman of the Shanghai International Relief Committee (1937), Honorary Presidium Member of the Chinese Branch of the International Congress against Aggression (1938), Suffragan of the First National Council for Political Participation, Chief Representative of China at the Sixth Pacific Symposium on International Exchanges (1938), Chairman of the Far East Regional Committee of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1946), A peace delegation from all walks of life in Shanghai went to Beiping to discuss the issue of postal and shipping between the north and the south (1949).

In the autumn of 1949, he attended the first plenary session of the New CppcC and the founding ceremony of the New Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beiping.

After the founding of New China, he successively served as a member of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council and vice chairman of the East China Military and Political Committee.

He is a member of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consult