In 1966, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working in the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs until 1969, when he was assigned to the
Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union as an attaché. He served in Moscow until 1973. He joined the
Chinese Communist Party in June 1973. After returning to China, he spent a year engaged in labour work at the Ministry's May 7 Cadre School. From the mid-1970s onward, he took on increasingly senior responsibilities within the Ministry. Between 1974 and 1985, he served in the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs as a staff member, deputy division director and later division director. During this period, he also worked as deputy head of the Ministry's Sino-Soviet Negotiation Office from 1980 to 1982, and as part of the Central Party Rectification Steering Committee's liaison group in
Anhui from 1983 to 1985. His leadership roles expanded further when he became deputy director-general of the Department of Soviet and Eastern European Affairs in 1985, and its director-general from 1986 to 1989. He went on to serve as China's Ambassador to Hungary from 1989 to 1991. after Hu had to leave the summit because of
July 2009 Ürümqi riots involving Uyghurs and Han-Chinese. in 2004, 3rd round of talks of the
Special Representative mechanism on the India-China boundary question Dai was appointed by Chinese leader Hu Jintao as his special representative to chair the Strategic Track of the
U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue for the Chinese side in 2009. During Hu Jintao's administration, Dai developed the concept of China's "
core interests" to define the primary goals that determine the country's foreign policy choices. The core interests are: maintaining the power of the Communist Party, continuing China's social and economic growth, and preservation of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. in November 2013, and he stepped down as chairman in November 2019. In September 2019, Dai Bingguo represented Chinese President
Xi Jinping to attend memorial ceremonies held by the French government in Paris for late President
Jacques Chirac. ==Personal==