Liao Chengzhi | |
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![]() Liao in the late 1940s[1] | |
Director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office | |
Personal details | |
Born | Okubo, Tokyo, Japan | 25 September 1908
Died | 10 June 1983 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China | (aged 74)
Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Relations | Liao Zhongkai (father) He Xiangning (mother) Liao Mengxing (sister) |
Children | Liao Hui |
Liao Chengzhi (Chinese: 廖承志; pinyin: Liào Chéngzhì; 25 September 1908 – 10 June 1983) was a Chinese politician.[2] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1928, and rose to the position of director of the Xinhua News Agency; after 1949, he worked in various positions related to foreign affairs, most prominently president of the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, president of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Society, and Minister of the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs.[3]