Office1: | Director of the Central Military Commission's International Military Cooperation Office |
Term Start1: | 15 January 2016 |
Term End1: | 2017 |
Predecessor1: | New title |
Successor1: | Hu Changming |
Office2: | Director of the Ministry of National Defence Foreign Affairs Office |
Term Start2: | February 2013 |
Term End2: | January 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Qian Lihua |
Successor2: | Hu Changping |
Guan Youfei | |
Native Name: | 关友飞 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Place: | Wuzhou, Guangxi, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | The High School Affiliated To Beijing Normal University Dalian Naval Academy |
Serviceyears: | 1976-present |
Rank: | Rear Admiral |
Guan Youfei (; born 1957) is a rear admiral (shaojiang) of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China. He has been director of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Commission since January 2016.[1]
Guan Youfei was born in 1957 in Wuzhou, Guangxi. In 1975 he graduated from The High School Affiliated To Beijing Normal University. He was conscripted into military service in 1976, during the end of the Cultural Revolution. He served in various posts in the navy ship force before studying at Dalian Naval Academy. In 2008, he was appointed deputy director of the Ministry of National Defence Foreign Affairs Office, and five years later promoted to the Director position. Guan Youfei was promoted to the rank of rear admiral (shaojiang) in 2009. On January 15, 2016, he became director of the newly established Office for International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Commission, after China's reform of national defense and the army.[2]