Mr. Fang Qiuchen has worked in Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM, the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation) for a long time and served as Vice Mayor of City Botou of Hebei Province, responsible for the social commodities circulation. He has served successively as Researcher, Director, Deputy Director General of the Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation, Commercial Counsellor and Deputy Director-General of the Department of American and Oceanian Affairs of MOFCOM respectively. He has held diplomatic posts as Third Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, First Secretary in Brunei Darussalam, Economic and Commercial Counsellor in Macedonia, and Minister Counsellor in Indonesia. Since April 2015, Mr. Fang took the position as Chairman of China International Contractors Association.