Le Yucheng

Le Yucheng (born in June 1963) is a Chinese retired diplomat and politician. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2018 and 2022.

Career
Born in Yangzhou, in 1986 Yucheng graduated in Russian language and literature at the Nanjing Normal University and then started a diplomacy career joining the Soviet Union's East European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among other assignments, he served as Minister Counsellor and Minister at the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Chinese ambassador to Kazakhstan between 2013 and 2014, and to India between 2014 and 2016, and deputy director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission.

In October 2017, Le was elected as an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and in March 2018, he was appointed deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Once considered a potential successor to Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in June 2022 Le was instead moved to the position of deputy director of the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), which was widely seen as a demotion. He further lost his alternate membership in the Central Committee after the 20th CCP National Congress, and was retired from the position of deputy director of the NRTA in July 2023 after reaching the age of 60.