From April 1972 to March 1988, Comrade Qian Qichen served as Counsellor of the Embassy of China in the Soviet Union, Ambassador of China to Guinea, Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the Party Group and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee. He is loyal to his duties and boldly carries out his work. In the negotiations with foreign countries, he showed the diplomatic art of combining the firmness of principles with the flexibility of strategies. From 1982 to 1987, as the special envoy of the China government, he presided over 1 1 round of consultations between China and the Soviet Union at the vice foreign minister level, and did a lot of work to promote the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations and the signing of border agreements between China and the Soviet Union, and achieved important results.