ZHANG Yanling, bornin February 1971.

2001-2013 Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director, Division Director, Counselor and Division Director, Counselor, The Protocol Department, MFA

2013-2014 Senior Official (Deputy-Director-General level), Department of Foreign Affairs Management, Office of the Leading Group for Foreign Affairs of the CPC Central Committee

2014-2017 Deputy Director-General, the Protocol Department, MFA

2017-2021 Minister Counselor, Embassy of the P.R.China in the

United States of America

2021-    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Antigua and Barbuda

Mme. Zhang is married with a daughter.