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{{Short description|Chinese diplomat}}
{{Other uses|David Wu (entertainer)}}
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| office1             = [[List of Ambassadors from China to South Korea|Chinese Ambassador to South Korea]]
| term_start1         = September 1998
| term_end1           = July 2001
| predecessor1        = [[Zhang Tingyan]]
| successor1          = [[Li Bin (diplomat)|Li Bin]]
| office2             = [[List of ambassadors of China to Japan|Chinese Ambassador to Japan]]
| term_start2         = July 2001
| term_end2           = August 2004
| predecessor2        = [[Chen Jian (diplomat)|Chen Jian]]
| successor2          = [[Wang Yi (politician)|Wang Yi]]
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| honorific-prefix    = 
| name                = Wu Dawei
| native_name         = {{lang|zh-Hans-CN|{{Nobold|武大伟}}}}
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| birth_date          = 1946
| birth_place         = [[Heilongjiang]], [[China]]
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| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]]
| occupation          = Diplomat
| nationality         = Chinese
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| alma_mater          = [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]]
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{{Chinese
| t = 武大偉<ref name="Korea">{{citation |title=驻大韩民国历任大使 (Ambassadors to the Republic of Korea)|url = http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/chn/ziliao/wjrw/2167/2168/t9132.htm |date = 2006-08-30 |accessdate = 2008-03-16 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |publication-place = Beijing }}</ref>
| s = 武大伟
| p = Wǔ Dàwěi
}}

'''Wu Dawei''' ({{small|pronounced}} {{IPA|cmn|u tAuei|lang|En-us-Wu Dawei from China pronunciation (Voice of America).ogg}}; {{zh |s = 武大伟 |t = 武大偉 }}; born 1946) was the previous special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs <ref name="SRKPA">{{citation|title=China appoints special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs|year=2010|accessdate=2011-02-01|publisher=Chinese Government's Official Web Portal|publication-place=People's Republic of China|url=http://english.gov.cn/2010-02/10/content_1532908.htm}}</ref> and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [[People's Republic of China]].<ref name="FMPRC">{{citation|title=Wu Dawei, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs|url=http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zygy/gyjl/wdw/default.htm|year=2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227233721/http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zygy/gyjl/wdw/default.htm|publication-place=People's Republic of China|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs|accessdate=2008-03-16|archivedate=2008-02-27}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Wu was born in 1946 in [[Heilongjiang]] province, [[China]]. He attended the [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]] before joining the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].

Wu is married and has one daughter.<ref name="FMPRC" />

== Career ==
Wu's career has largely taken him back and forth between China and [[Japan]]. His first assignment with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] was as an attaché to the Chinese embassy in Japan, lasting from 1973 to 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Wu_Dawei|title=China Vitae : Biography of Wu Dawei|website=www.chinavitae.com|access-date=2016-04-07}}</ref>

He returned to China in 1979 to take a position in the Ministry Department of Asian Affairs, and in 1980 was promoted to deputy office director of the General Office. He returned to Japan again in 1985 to serve as second secretary and later first secretary in the Chinese embassy. In 1994, he was posted back to Japan as minister counselor.<ref name="FMPRC" />

Wu's first ambassadorial-level assignment was to [[South Korea]] in 1998.<ref name="Korea" /><ref name="FMPRC" />

Following his time in South Korea, Wu became China's ambassador to Japan in 2001. He returned to China to take up his post as Vice Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of that assignment.<ref name="Japan">{{citation|title=驻日本国历任大使 (Ambassadors to Japan)|url=http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/chn/ziliao/wjrw/2167/2168/t9142.htm|date=2007-10-01|accessdate=2008-03-16|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs|publication-place=People's Republic of China}}</ref>

In 2005, Wu acted as the chairman to the fourth round of [[six-party talks]] looking to bring a peaceful resolution to security concerns on the Korean Peninsula. He retained the position of chairman until the dissolution of the talks in 2007.<ref>[http://nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=118129&z=5 Trung Quốc đưa biện pháp mới để tái tục hội đàm 6 bên] {{in lang|vi}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
Controversies which arose during his tenure there include his 1999 remarks in which he condemned South Korean and non-governmental organization involvement with the issue of [[North Korean defectors]] in [[northeast China]], deriding it as "neo-interventionism", and claimed that the safety of refugees repatriated to North Korea had been guaranteed.<ref>{{citation|url=http://archives.lemonde.fr/gop/archives_40/0,0-0,37-45567,0.html|title=Pékin sévit contre les missionnaires à la frontière nord-coréenne|periodical=Le Monde|date=1999-10-08|accessdate=2008-03-16}}</ref> His comments spurred South Korean [[human rights]] activists to hold protests at the Chinese embassy in Seoul and circulate a petition urging the [[United Nations]] to grant refugee status to North Koreans in China.<ref>{{citation|title=Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas|last=Noland|first=Marcus|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics|year=2000|page=[https://archive.org/details/avoidingapocalyp00nola_0/page/189 189]|isbn=0-88132-278-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/avoidingapocalyp00nola_0/page/189}}</ref>

==References==
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{{s-before |before = [[Zhang Tingyan]] }}
{{s-title
|title = 2nd [[List of Ambassadors from China to South Korea |Chinese Ambassador to South Korea]]
|years = September 1998 – July 2001
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{{s-after |after =  [[Li Bin (diplomat) |Li Bin]] }}
{{s-before |before=  Chen Jian }}
{{s-title
|title = Chinese Ambassador to Japan
|years = July 2001 – August 2004
}}
{{s-after|after= [[Wang Yi (politician)|Wang Yi]] }}
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