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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) abstract "Sir Richard Mark Evans KCMG KCVO (Chinese: 伊文思爵士, 15 April 1928 – 24 August 2012) was a British diplomat who was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988, during which he and Zhou Nan, the Chinese representative, initialed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on 26 September 1984. Evans joined the Foreign Office in 1952. Before becoming ambassador to China, he had stationed in the British charge d'affaires office in Peking twice from 1955 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1964. During his ambassadorship, he also acted as the chief representative of the British delegation from the eighth to the twenty-second round of Sino-British negotiations over the sovereignty issue of Hong Kong.In fact, much of the core negotiations had been done by his predecessor Sir Percy Cradock and therefore, the major mission of Evans and his team was to draft the clauses of the Joint Declaration with their Chinese counterparts within the limited timeframe. The series of negotiations ultimately resulted in the formal signing of the Joint Declaration by the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang in Peking on 19 December 1984, a treaty confirming the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Evans later participated in arranging a number of high-ranking official visits between the two nations. One of them was the historic visit of Queen Elizabeth II to China in October 1986. In retirement, he wrote a biography of Chinese national leader Deng Xiaoping. It was published in 1993 and was translated into Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Hungarian and other languages.".
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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) birthPlace British_Honduras.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) deathDate "2012-08-24".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) deathPlace Wiltshire.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) monarch Elizabeth_II.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) orderInOffice "British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) successor Alan_Ewen_Donald.
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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Evans, Sir Richard".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Richard Evans (British diplomat)".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Richard Evans".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Richard Mark Evans".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sir Richard Evans".
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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) birthDate "1928-04-15".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) birthPlace British_Honduras.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) deathDate "2012-08-24".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) deathPlace "Wiltshire, United Kingdom".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) monarch Elizabeth_II.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) name "Sir Richard Evans".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) nativeName "伊文思爵士".
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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) predecessor Percy_Cradock.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) successor Alan_Ewen_Donald.
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) termEnd "May 1988".
- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) termStart "January 1984".
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- Richard_Evans_(British_diplomat) years "1984".
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