What is China's position in the United Nations?

The United Nations held four selection examinations in China in 1995, 200 1, 2002 and February 2005 respectively. There are 68 people who have passed the examination and entered the reserve list of the United Nations Personnel Service, and 35 of them have been officially employed by the United Nations. The quality of these employees is relatively good, but their positions are relatively low at present, and it will take some time to be promoted to senior management.

197 1 After resuming its lawful seat in the United Nations, China began to send international staff to the United Nations and its specialized agencies. As of March 2005, more than 300 China staff members were working in the United Nations Secretariat. Current position among all employees in China.

The highest is Chen Jian, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of General Assembly Affairs Management. Ten years from assistant to expert

-Liu Dazheng, Senior Translator of the United Nations

Liu Dazheng's name is a household name in the United Nations and even in the Chinese community in new york. Liu Dazheng was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and moved to Hong Kong in the early 1950s. From 65438 to 0973, Liu was studying for a doctorate in sociology at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, which coincided with the restoration of China's legitimate seat in the United Nations, and the United Nations recruited talents from the society to strengthen the translation team in China. At the age of 25, he stood out from fierce competition.

Thanks to his unremitting efforts, Liu Da is changing from assistant translator to senior translator in 10, which is also the fastest promotion speed that UN staff can achieve.

As a result of working in the Chinese Department from beginning to end, Liu Dazheng personally felt the continuous improvement of the status of Chinese. With more and more international activities involving China, the task of Chinese translation is getting heavier and heavier. The number of Chinese departments has increased from 20 at first to 60 now, making it the department with the most concentrated staff of the United Nations in China.

"I have a China passport."

—— Weng Yingying, Director of the Recruitment Department of the United Nations Personnel Department

Weng Yingying, 57, is the director of the recruitment department of the United Nations Personnel Office, responsible for all the recruitment policies and specific implementation of the United Nations except peacekeeping forces. She is quiet and elegant, and she is also one of the few D-level senior managers among the staff of the United Nations in China.

Weng Yingying's ancestral home is Chao 'an, Guangdong, and she was born in Saigon, Vietnam, which is now Ho Chi Minh City. In the mid-1960s, she went to France to study and obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in French literature. 1977, the United Nations recruited a Chinese translator, and Weng Yingying went to apply for it, which succeeded in one fell swoop, and she began her career as a United Nations staff member.

In Weng Yingying's 28-year career, the proudest thing is to design the United Nations recruitment website named "Yinhe" for the recruitment department, which has largely realized the professionalization and transparency of the recruitment of United Nations personnel and has become one of the main channels for the United Nations to attract global talents.

Wandering overseas for many years, Weng Yingying still has a deep China complex. It is not difficult for her to apply for French or American citizenship, but Weng Yingying prefers to maintain her China citizenship, even if it will bring some inconvenience to her life and work. Asked about the reason, Weng Yingying said categorically: "I am from China and should hold a China passport."

When I love you, I accept suffering

—— Wang Zhijia, Deputy Director of the Regional Cooperation Division of the United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is spring-like all the year round and has a beautiful environment. The United Nations Nairobi office, the only large-scale resident agency of the United Nations in third world countries, is located here. At present, in this remote African country, more than a dozen China people are working for the United Nations.

Wang Zhijia, 53, is the Deputy Director of the Regional Cooperation Department of the United Nations Environment Programme and the highest-ranking official of China in the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Since 1978 served as the liaison officer of China's representative office in the United Nations Environment Programme, he has formed an indissoluble bond with international environmental protection.

In 2003, Wang Zhijia, Director of the International Department of China Environmental Protection Administration, was personally appointed by Klaus T? pfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, and took office, thus facing new challenges in his career.

For anyone in China, the internationalization of the work of the United Nations is a great challenge. "You must always prove your talent." Wang Zhijia lamented.

Wang Zhijia can be proud of his achievements in the past two years, especially under his impetus, UNEP set up an office in Beijing in September 2003.

Hard work of behind-the-scenes translation

—— Han, Head of China Group of Conference Services Division of the United Nations Office at Nairobi

The main task of the Chinese team of the Conference Services Division of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, led by Han, is to translate all official United Nations documents received by the Conference Services Division into Chinese for distribution through all official channels of the United Nations.

Legal documents such as conventions and protocols are very professional and extremely boring, while the translation of slogans requires high accuracy and generality. Therefore, Xin and his colleagues have made great efforts in their work.

Although what they did was behind the scenes, Han Xiao and his colleagues paid attention to the international working environment, fully demonstrated the advantages and talents of China people, and never forgot to safeguard national interests.

At present, China translators in Nairobi are all selected through the national unified examination from 1984 to 1988, and then enter the United Nations, where they are assigned after two years of United Nations translation training courses. Han said that they have forged a profound "fighting" friendship with each other because of their long-term work together.

Feel the rising status of China.

-Zhao Xingmin, translator of China in the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Geneva is the headquarters of the United Nations in Europe and home to many specialized agencies of the United Nations. China has international staff in various organizations.

Zhao Xingmin, Chinese translator of the United Nations Office at Geneva, 17 international staff. Talking about his own experience and feelings, Zhao Xingmin, 42, said that since the reform and opening up, international staff in China have personally felt the continuous improvement of China's international status.

Zhao Xingmin said that the UN agencies in Geneva have more than 10000 staff, while China has only a few hundred staff. This team should be greatly increased. At present, most of the international staff in China are Chinese translators, and there are few people from China in the decision-making or personnel departments of international organizations such as the United Nations. We should pay more attention to this. The more China people in international organizations, the higher the level, the better the influence of China.

Be prepared for difficulties.

-Li Shengjie, Director-General of the UN Labor Bureau in Afghanistan.

In the United Nations Assistance Mission for Li Shengjie, a staff member from China works in the International Labour Organization (ILO) and is also the person in charge.

After graduating from Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Li Shengjie first worked in the International Labor Research Institute under the former Ministry of Labor and Personnel for three years. Later, due to his excellent language and business skills, he began to work in the United Nations International Labour Organization from 65438 to 0987, until 65438 to 08.

As the specialized agency in charge of labor affairs in the United Nations, the ILO is the only organization in the United Nations with a tripartite representative structure (government, employers and workers). After studying 12 at the Geneva headquarters, Li Shengjie was sent to Pakistan to take charge of Afghan affairs in 1999, and then went to Bangladesh as the chief project consultant two years later. In September 2004, he came to Afghanistan and became the director of the local labor bureau.

At the beginning, Li Shengjie's office conditions in Pakistan were very good, belonging to the highest class A of the United Nations offices around the world, while Afghanistan was listed as the lowest class H. Faced with such a big gap, Li Shengjie said: "Since I agreed to work here, I am ready to deal with difficulties." (Xinhua) There are not many people in China who hold high positions in the United Nations.

According to the geographical nature, United Nations staff can be divided into two categories: staff subject to geographical distribution and staff not subject to geographical distribution. Member States comprehensively determine the number range of positions occupied by various departments of the United Nations according to factors such as population and the amount of membership fees paid. Of the 654.38+500,000 employees of the United Nations, about 2,500 posts are subject to geographical distribution. These positions belong to the regular budget of the General Assembly, and the number is relatively small, but most of them are located in key departments, which are relatively stable, important and influential, so they are highly valued by Member States.

China's contribution accounts for more than 2% of the total membership fee of the United Nations. According to the principle of geographical distribution, the number of posts in China ranges from 55 to 74. As of March 2005, the actual number was 56. Although small, it is still within the normal range.

Of these 56 employees, only 8 are D-level senior managers, accounting for 65,438+0% of the total number of senior managers in the United Nations, and the others are business officials from P-2 to P-5. In addition, there are no China employees in the core departments of the United Nations, such as politics, law and peacekeeping, while there are only a few China employees in the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund. This situation is incompatible with China's international status, and there is a big gap compared with China's important role in United Nations affairs, which, to a certain extent, has become one of the restrictive factors affecting China's greater role in the United Nations.

The representation of China employees in top management is obviously insufficient, which is inconsistent with China's status as a big country. Although China has more than 300 employees, there are many language departments of the United Nations, including about 60 Chinese departments of the United Nations General Assembly Department, while few people in China actually work in key departments such as politics, security, economy and so on.

The reasons that affect the promotion of China employees to senior positions are very complicated. First of all, language is an inherent challenge for employees in China. English and French are the working languages of the United Nations. Although the foreign language level of China staff has made great progress in recent years, compared with English or French as their mother tongue, westerners with good eloquence are still ashamed, even compared with Indians and Pakistanis who received English education since childhood.

Secondly, China employees generally lacked relevant experience in the United Nations before entering the United Nations. Many western employees have worked as interns or short-term employees in the United Nations before formally entering the United Nations, and they are very familiar with their work, while China employees often have to start from scratch.

In addition, the cultural differences between China and the West have also affected the development of employees in China to some extent. Many China employees can't adapt to the western civil service system of the United Nations, and it is also difficult to adapt to the western official culture. (Liu Libin)