Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, will lecture on "China-U.S. Relations and China's Peaceful Development," Thursday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell's Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.

The lecture, sponsored by Cornell's Office of the Vice Provost for International Relations, is free and open to the public.

Wenzhong has served as attaché and the 3rd Secretary in the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., and has worked at the Department of Translation and Interpretation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rising to division chief. He served as ambassador to Australia from 1998 to 2001, then as assistant minister in charge of American and Latin American affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2005 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the People's Republic of China to the United States.