The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued early Tuesday the names of the nine members of the Chinese delegation to the second round of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue, which is scheduled to start in Beijing Wednesday.  

The ministry said earlier Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi would head the Chinese delegation.

The members are Fu Ying, advisor; Ning Fukui, ambassador in charge of the Korean Peninsula issue; Cui Tiankai, director-general of the Asian Affairs Department; He Yafei, director-general of the North American and Oceanian Affairs Department; Kong Xuanyou, deputy director-general of the Asian Affairs Department; Fu Cong, deputy director-general of the Arms Control and Disarmament Department; Liu Jianchao, deputy director-general of the Information Department; Zhang Haizhou, counselor of the East European and Central Asian Affairs Department; and Yang Xiyu, director of the Office for Korean Peninsula Issue.

(Xinhua News Agency February 24, 2004)