BEIJING, Sept. 24 -- Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, the new spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND),is going to make his debut at a regular press conference on Thursday. He is the seventh spokesperson since the establishment of China’s MND press spokesperson system.
Snr. Col. Tan was born in northeast China’s Liaoning Province in 1975. He was admitted by the PLA Foreign Language University in 1994 and graduated in 1998. Tan received a juris master degree from the Law School of Peking University in 2008. He has served as the assistant translator, secretary, legal officer, and vice tribunal director of a military court. In December of 2019, Tan was appointed as deputy director of the MND Information Office and spokesperson of MND.