Career
He replaced Jiang Yuande (Chinese: 蒋元德) as the Chinese Ambassador to Angola from 2002 through 2005 under the appointment of the then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and was succeeded by Zhang Bolun (Chinese: 张伯伦) in May 2008. He was then appointed Ambassador to Portugal, in place of Gao Kexiang. On 25 February 2013, the then-Chinese President Hu Jintao announced the appointment of Huang Songfu as new Ambassador to Portugal.