Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in Beijing Thursday China has no plan of changing its special envoy on the Middle East issue.

Liu made the remark at a regular press conference as response to a journalist's question. He said Ambassador Wang Shijie, China's Mideast envoy, is a senior expert on the Middle East issue and his work has been thought and spoke highly of since his appointment.

China appointed Wang its special envoy on the Middle East issue in September 2002, aiming to promote the appropriate solution of the region's peace process through peaceful means and responding to the pleas of leaders from the Arab world who repeatedly urged China to play a larger role in the Middle East issue.

Source: Xinhua