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China has named a career diplomat, Hua Qunduo, as the new ambassador to India to steer Sino-Indian relations in the new millennium.
Hua will replace Zhou Gang, who was appointed in 1998.
Though Hua's appointment had been cleared some time back, Zhou was asked to continue in order to handle the 'official goodwill visit' of senior Chinese leader and chairman of the National People's Congress Li Peng in January this year, official sources said.
Hua is expected to leave for India next month to take up his new post.
Hua was earlier Chinese ambassador to Fiji and concurrently to Vanuatu and Kiribati.
Prior to that, he was the deputy division chief of the America division of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
PTI
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