Zhou Xiuhua, female, born in October 1946.

1974-1977	Staff Member of Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
1977-1983	Staff Member,Attache and Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Syria
1987-1992	Second Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in UAE
1992-1994	First Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Jordan
1994-1996	First Secretary and deputy director of Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
1996-1999	Counsellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Kuwait
1999-2002	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Qatar
2002-	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Syria

She is married and has one daughter.