Ambassador Li Debiao, a native of Ningho in the Zhejiang province, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China in 1949.
He devoted the next four decades of his life and career to the service of China and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As a diplomat, he spent a total of twenty-six years in foreign postings. Of these, twenty were spent in Europe, two in Africa and four in Asia.
He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Nepal. In the course of his tour of duty there he made a significant contribution towards advancing Sino-Nepalese bilateral relations.
At the Ministry, he worked in the Department of Soviet and European Affairs and in the Department of Asian Affairs.
He was also Director of the Office of Policy Research and Study.
Following his retirement, he has been an Advisor to a number of prominent institutions in China.