Fu Ying

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Fu Ying (Chinese: 傅莹; pinyin: Fù Yíng; born 1953) is the Chinese ambassador to Australia. She gained some notoriety in 2005 by claiming that dissident diplomat Chen Yonglin would not be persecuted or prosecuted if he returned to China, and for suggesting that he was only putting forth such a case to gain sympathy for his bid for a visa.

Fu was born in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. She graduated from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (北京外国语学院). She studied abroad at the University of Kent from 1985-1986 and was the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines from 1998-2000. She has been the Australian ambassador since 2004.