1949, joined the China * * * production party. He has served as the staff, attache and third secretary of the embassy in North Korea, deputy director, deputy director, deputy director and deputy director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, counselor of the embassy in Iran and ambassador to Ethiopia. Since the founding of New China, Zhang Ruijie has been involved in Korean Peninsula affairs. He is proficient in Korean and familiar with the situation on the peninsula. Although he served as China's ambassador to Ethiopia and Sri Lanka in 1980s, and left for some time, he still has a deep understanding of this region.