Editing Qian Qichen (section)

{{Short description|Chinese diplomat}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Qian Qichen
| image               = Qian Qichen.jpg
| caption             = Qian in 1997
| office              = [[Vice Premier of China]]
| term_start          = 25 March 1993
| term_end            = 17 March 2003
| premier             = [[Li Peng]]<br />[[Zhu Rongji]]
| office2             = 7th [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (China)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| term_start2         = 12 April 1988
| term_end2           = 18 March 1998
| predecessor2        = [[Wu Xueqian]]
| premier2            = [[Li Peng]]
| successor2          = [[Tang Jiaxuan]]
| native_name         = {{nobold|钱其琛}}
| native_name_lang    = zh-cn
| signature           = 
| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]] (joined in 1942)
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1928|1|5|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[British concession of Tianjin|British Tianjin]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2017|5|9|1928|1|5|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Beijing]], [[People's Republic of China]]
| spouse              = Zhou Hanqiong (周寒琼)
| children            = 2
| module              = {{Infobox Chinese
| child               = yes
| s                   = 钱其琛
| t                   = 錢其琛
| p                   = Qián Qíchēn
| w                   = Ch'ien Ch'i-ch'en
}}}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Qian (surname)|Qian]]|lang=Chinese}}
'''Qian Qichen''' ({{zh|c=钱其琛|p=Qián Qíchēn}}; 5 January  1928 – 9 May 2017) was a Chinese diplomat and politician. He served as [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) [[Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party|Politburo member]] from 1992 to 2002, [[China]]'s [[Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China|Foreign Minister]] from April 1988 to March 1998, and as [[Vice Premier of China|Vice Premier]] from March 1993 to March 2003. Since then, no other diplomat-turned-politician has attained such a lofty status in China's political hierarchy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Chinese vice-premier Qian Qichen dies, aged 90|url=http://www.todayonline.com/world/former-chinese-vice-premier-qian-qichen-dies-aged-90|website=Today Online|access-date=11 May 2017}}</ref> Qian played a critical role in shaping China's [[Foreign policy of China|foreign policy]] during [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP general secretary]] [[Jiang Zemin]]'s administration, and was a key player handling the return to Chinese sovereignty of [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]]. He was in charge of border negotiations with the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1980s, resulting in a successful settlement of the [[China–Russia border|border dispute]] and the thawing of the relations between China and Russia. He was also instrumental in handling China's normalization of relations with the West in the difficult period after the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]].