Facts:   - president: hu jintao xi jinping    - predecessor: fu ying    - country: united kingdom      - term start: march 2010    - birth date: 1956    - name: liu xiaoming    - image: liu china to the uk.jpg xiaoming , ambassador of the peoples republic of    - birth place: jieyang , guangdong , china    - ambassador from: people 's republic of china   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of liu xiaoming .
liu xiaoming -lrb- born 1956 in jieyang , guangdong -rrb- is a chinese diplomat currently serving as ambassador to the united kingdom .he graduated from dalian university of foreign languages with a major in english and undertook further studies in the usa , obtaining a master 's degree in international relations from the fletcher school of law and foreign affairs at tufts university in 1983 .between 2001 and 2003 , liu acted as china 's ambassador in egypt , and from 2006 to 2010 as chinese ambassador in north korea .in 2010 he replaced fu ying as chinese ambassador in the uk .