Zhou Li (diplomat)

Zhou Li (Chinese: 周力; born June 1955) is a Chinese diplomat, serving since 2013 as the deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China. Born in Anqiu, Shandong province, and has a master's degree in economics. He has been a lifelong diplomat, having served in the embassy to the Soviet Union (and later Russia), before returning to China in 1999 to serve as the deputy head of the department of European and Asian Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He returned to Russia in 2002. He was promoted to European and Asian Affairs department chief in 2004, then posted to Ukraine as ambassador in 2006. He was transferred to Kazakhstan as ambassador in 2010.

He is married and has one son.