2012年11月16日,在外交部发言人、新闻司司长秦刚的引荐下,华春莹第一次以外交部发言人的身份,站到了公众面前。2012年4月,姜瑜调任外交部驻港特派员公署副特派员后,外交部发言人中一度只剩下男性成员。而华春莹的“柔性”登场,也使这支发言人队伍再度延续了“女性传统”——她是1 983年外交部发言人制度建立以来第27位发言人, On November 16, 2012, under the guidance of Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang, director of the Information Department, Hua Chunying stood for the first time as a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry and stood in front of the public. In April 2012, after Jiang Yu was transferred to the Deputy Commissioner of the MFA in Hong Kong, only one male member of the Foreign Ministry spokesman was left behind. The appearance of Hua Chunying's “softness” also made this spokesman's team once again “traditional women's” - the 27th spokesman since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman system was established in 1983,