ASSISTANT MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Nong Rong was appointed Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, China’s State Council announced on February 7.
Born in Mashan in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 1967, Nong spent the majority of his career in the region, which has played a crucial role in connecting China with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He worked at the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau in Guangxi for eight years and was once Assistant to the Secretary General of the China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat.
He became mayor of Guigang in 2015 and was named head of the regional commission of ethnic and religious affairs in 2019.