Ambassadors of China

National Emblem of the People's Republic of China

This article contains several lists of ambassadors from China. The incumbents change from time to time; sometimes a post starts or stops being temporarily headed by a lower ranking diplomat. Occasionally, a post is created or abolished.

In accordance with articles 67 and 81 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, ambassadors are selected by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and officially appointed by the President of the People's Republic of China.^[1]^[2]

Current Chinese Ambassadors

Ambassador information is primarily taken from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ambassador information pages.^[3] In certain cases, the information is taken from the relevant embassy website.

Host country	Ref	Ambassador Name	Embassy Website	Date Selected
Afghanistan	Ref	Xu Feihong (徐飞洪)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	April 2011
Albania	Ref	Ye Hao (叶皓)	Tirana	December 2011
Algeria	Ref	Liu Yuhe (刘玉和)	Algiers	April 2008
Andorra^[4]	Ref	Zhu Bangzao (朱邦造)	Madrid	2008
Angola	Ref	Gao Kexiang (高克祥)	Luanda	July 2011
Antigua and Barbuda	Ref	Liu Hanming (刘汉明)	St. John's	August 2010
Argentina	Ref	Yin Hengmin (殷恒民)	Buenos Aires	January 2011
Armenia	Ref	Tian Changchun (田长春)	Yerevan	March 2010
Australia	Ref	Chen Yuming (陈育明)	Canberra	November 2009
Austria	Ref	Shi Mingde (史明德)	Vienna	August 2010
Azerbaijan	Ref	Hong Jiuyin (宏九印)	Baku	January 2012
The Bahamas	Ref	Hu Shan (胡山)	Nassau	May 2011
Bahrain	Ref	Yang Weiguo (杨伟国)	Manama	November 2009
Bangladesh	Ref	Zhang Xianyi (张宪一)	Dhaka	March 2009
Barbados	Ref	Xu Hong ()	Christ Church	May 2012
Belarus	Ref	Gong Jianwei (宫建伟)	Minsk	January 2012
Belgium	Ref	Liao Liqiang (廖力强)	Brussels	June 2011
Belize^[5]
Benin	Ref	Tao Weiguang (陶卫光)	Cotonou	August 2011
Bolivia	Ref	Shen Zhiliang (沈智良)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	October 2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ref	Wang Fuguo (王辅国)	N/A	August 2010
Botswana	Ref	Liu Huanxing (刘焕兴)	Gaborone	April 2009
Brazil	Ref	Li Jinzhang (李金章)	Brasilia	January 2012
Brunei	Ref	Zheng Xianglin (郑祥林)	Bandar Seri Begawan	December 2011
Bulgaria	Ref	Guo Yezhou (郭业洲)	Sofia	August 2010
Burkina Faso^[5]	Ref
Burundi	Ref	Yu Xuzhong (郁序忠)	Bujumbura	June 2010
Cambodia	Ref	Pan Guangxue (潘广学)	Phnom Penh	March 2010
Cameroon	Ref	Xue Jinwei (薛金维)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	February 2010
Canada	Ref	Zhang Junsai (章均赛)	Ottawa	November 2010
Cape Verde	Ref	Li Chunhua (李春华)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	August 2009
Central African Republic	Ref	Sun Haichao (孙海潮)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	April 2011
Chad	Ref	Yang Guangyu (杨广玉)	Ndjamena	August 2009
Chile	Ref	Lü Fan (吕凡)	Santiago	December 2009
Colombia	Ref	Wang Xiaoyuan (汪晓源)	Bogotá	September 2011
Comoros	Ref	Wang Leyou (王乐友)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	March 2010
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Ref	Wang Yingwu (王英武)	Kinshasa	December 2010
Republic of the Congo	Ref	Li Shuli (李树立)	Brazzaville	November 2007
Cook Islands^[6]	Ref	Xu Jianguo (徐建国)^[7]	Wellington	August 2010
Costa Rica	Ref	Li Changhua (李长华）	San José	June 2010
Ivory Coast	Ref	Wei Wenhua (魏文华)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	November 2007
Croatia	Ref	Shen Zhifei (申知非)	Zagreb	May 2010
Cuba	Ref	Liu Yuqin (刘玉琴)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	February 2010
Cyprus	Ref	Li Guobang (李国邦)	Nicosia	November 2009
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus^[8]
Czech Republic	Ref	Yu Qingtai (于庆泰)	Prague	September 2010
Denmark	Ref	Xie Hangsheng (谢杭生)	Copenhagen	April 2006
Djibouti	Ref	Zhang Guoqing (张国庆)	Djibouti	October 2008
Dominica	Ref	Wang Zonglai (王宗来)	Roseau	January 2011
Dominican Republic^[5]
East Timor (Timor-Leste)	Ref	Tian Guangfeng (田广凤)	Dili	January 2012
Ecuador	Ref	Yuan Guisen (苑桂森)	Quito	January 2011
Egypt	Ref	Song Aiguo (宋爱国)	Cairo	October 2010
El Salvador^[5]
Equatorial Guinea	Ref	Wang Shixiong (王士雄)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	July 2010
Eritrea	Ref	Li Liansheng (李连生)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	August 2009
Estonia	Ref	Huang Zhongpo (黄忠坡)	Tallinn	June 2008
Ethiopia	Ref	Jie Xiaoyan (解晓岩)	Addis Ababa	November 2011
Fiji	Ref	Huang Yong (黄勇)	Suva	July 2011
Finland	Ref	Huang Xing (黄兴)	Helsinki	August 2009
France^[9]	Ref	Kong Quan (孔泉)	Paris	March 2008
Gabon	Ref	Li Fushun (李福顺)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	May 2009
The Gambia^[5]	Ref
Georgia	Ref	Chen Jianfu (陈建福)	Tbilisi	October 2010
Germany	Ref	Wu Hongbo (吴红波)	Berlin	August 2009
Ghana	Ref	Gong Jianzhong (龚建忠)	Accra	August 2010
Greece	Ref	Du Qiwen (杜起文)	Athens	August 2011
Grenada	Ref	Xu Jianguo (徐建国)	St. George's	October 2010
Guatemala^[5]
Guinea	Ref	Zhao Lixing (赵立兴)	Conakry	October 2010
Guinea-Bissau	Ref	Li Baojun(李宝钧)	Bairro de Penha	October 2010
Guyana	Ref	Yu Wenzhe (于文哲)	Georgetown	August 2010
Haiti^[5]
Holy See^[5]
Honduras^[5]
Hungary	Ref	Gao Jian (高建)	Budapest	August 2009
Iceland	Ref	Su Ge (苏格)	Reykjavik	September 2009
India	Ref	Zhang Dan (张炎)	New Delhi	December 2007
Indonesia	Ref	Zhang Qiyue (章启月)	Jakarta	August 2008
Iran	Ref	Yu Hongyang (郁红阳)	Tehran	July 2010
Iraq	Ref	Ni Jian (倪坚)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	November 2011
Ireland	Ref	Luo Linquan (罗林泉)	Dublin	August 2011
Israel	Ref	Gao Yanping (高燕平)	Tel Aviv	September 2011
Italy^[10]	Ref	Ding Wei (丁伟)	Rome	April 2010
Jamaica	Ref	Zheng Qingdian (郑清典)	Kingston	May 2011
Japan	Ref	Cheng Yonghua (程永华)	Tokyo	February 2010
Jordan	Ref	Yue Xiaoyong (岳晓勇)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	July 2010
Kazakhstan	Ref	Zhou Li (周力)	Astana	May 2010
Kenya	Ref	Liu Guangyuan (刘光源)	Nairobi	September 2010
Kiribati^[5]	Ref
North Korea	Ref	Liu Hongcai (刘洪才)	Pyongyang	March 2010
South Korea	Ref	Qiu Guohong (邱国宏)	Seoul	December 2013
Kosovo^[11]
Kuwait	Ref	Huang Jiemin (黄杰民)	Yarmouk	June 2008
Kyrgyzstan	Ref	Wang Kaiwen (王开文)	Bishkek	March 2009
Laos	Ref	Bu Jianguo (布建国)	Vientiane	March 2010
Latvia	Ref	Hu Yeshun (胡业顺)	Riga	August 2010
Lebanon	Ref	Wu Zexian (吴泽献)	Beirut	January 2011
Lesotho	Ref	Hu Dingxian (胡定贤)	Maseru	May 2011
Liberia	Ref	Zhao Jianhua (赵鉴华)	Monrovia	May 2011
Libya	Ref	Wang Wangsheng (王旺生)	Tripoli	June 2008
Liechtenstein^[12]
Lithuania	Ref	Liu Zengwen (刘增文)	Vilnius	January 2012
Luxembourg	Ref	Zeng Xianqi (曾宪柒)	Luxembourg	August 2010
Macedonia	Ref	Dong Chunfeng (董春风)	Skopje	February 2007
Madagascar	Ref	Shen Yongxiang (沈永祥)	Antananarivo	July 2010
Malawi	Ref	Pan Hejun (潘和钧)	Lilongwe	August 2010
Malaysia	Ref	Chai Xi (柴玺)	Kuala Lumpur	July 2010
Maldives	Ref	Yu Hongyao (余洪耀)	N/A	October 2011
Mali	Ref	Cao Zhongming (曹忠明)	Bamako	April 2011
Malta	Ref	Zhang Keyuan (张克远)	St. Julian's	August 2009
Marshall Islands^[5]	Ref
Mauritania	Ref	Chen Gonglai (陈公来)	Nouakchott	December 2010
Mauritius	Ref	Bian Yanhua (毛里求斯)	Belle Rose	May 2009
Mexico	Ref	Zeng Gang (曾钢)	Mexico City	January 2011
Micronesia, Federated States of	Ref	Zhang Weidong (张卫东)	Kolonia	August 2009
Moldova	Ref	Tong Mingtao (佟明涛)	Chisinau	January 2012
Monaco^[9]	Ref	Kong Quan (孔泉)	Paris	March 2008
Mongolia	Ref	Wang Xiaolong (王小龙)	Ulaanbaatar	February 2011
Montenegro	Ref	Zhao Zhilin (智昭林)	Podgorica	March 2010
Morocco	Ref	Sun Shuzhan (舒展)	Rabat	July 2013
Mozambique	Ref	Huang Songpu (黄松甫)	Maputo	July 2010
Myanmar	Ref	Liu Junhua (刘军华)	Rangoon	December 2010
Namibia	Ref	Wei Ruixing (魏瑞兴)	Windhoek	May 2010
Nauru ^[5]	Ref
Nepal	Ref	Yang Houlan (杨厚兰)	Kathmandu	July 2011
Netherlands	Ref	Zhang Jun (张军)	The Hague	April 2008
New Zealand^[6]	Ref	Xu Jianguo (徐建国)^[7]	Wellington	August 2010
Nicaragua^[5]
Niger	Ref	Xia Huang	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	November 2009
Nigeria	Ref	Deng Boqing (邓波清)	Abuja	September 2010
Niue^[6]	Ref	Xu Jianguo (徐建国)^[7]	Wellington	August 2010
Norway	Ref	Tang Guoqiang (唐国强)	Oslo	September 2009
Oman	Ref	Wu Jiuhong (吴久洪)	Muscat	December 2010
Pakistan	Ref	Liu Jian (刘健)	Islamabad	July 2010
Palau^[5]
Palestinian National Authority	Ref	Yang Weiguo (杨伟国)	N/A	November 2005
Panama^[5]
Papua New Guinea	Ref	Qiu Bohua (仇伯华)	Port Moresby	May 2010
Paraguay^[5]
Peru	Ref	Huang Minhui (黄敏慧)	Lima	November 2011
Philippines	Ref	Ma Keqing (马克卿)	Manila	January 2012
Poland	Ref	Sun Yuxi (孙玉玺)	Warsaw	June 2010
Portugal	Ref	Zhang Beisan (张备三)	Lisbon	May 2010
Qatar	Ref	Zhang Zhiliang (张志良)	Doha	November 2010
Romania	Ref	Huo Yuzhen (霍玉珍)	Bucharest	December 2011
Russia	Ref	Li Hui (李辉)	Moscow	August 2009
Rwanda	Ref	---- (--)	Kigali	June 2013
Saint Kitts and Nevis^[5]
Saint Lucia^[5]	Ref
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines^[5]
Samoa	Ref	Zhao Weiping (赵卫平)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	April 2011
San Marino^[10]	Ref	Ding Wei (丁伟)	Rome	April 2010
São Tomé and Príncipe^[5]	Ref
Saudi Arabia	Ref	Li Chengwen (李成文)	Riyadh	November 2011
Senegal	Ref	Gong Yuanxing (龚元兴)	Dakar	November 2009
Serbia	Ref	Wei Jinghua (魏敬华)	Belgrade	August 2008
Seychelles		Shi Zhongjun (史忠俊)	Mahe	November 2011
Sierra Leone	Ref	Kuang Weilin (旷伟霖)	Freetown	December 2010
Singapore	Ref	Wei Wei (魏苇)	Singapore	May 2010
Slovakia	Ref	Gu Ziping (顾子平)	Bratislava	August 2010
Slovenia	Ref	Sun Rongmin (孙荣民)	Ljubljana	May 2010
Solomon Islands^[5]
Somalia^[13]	Ref
South Africa	Ref	Zhong Jianhua (钟建华)	Pretoria	April 2007
South Ossetia^[14]
South Sudan^[15]	Ref	Li Zhiguo (李志国)	Juba	September 2011
Spain^[4]	Ref	Zhu Bangzao (朱邦造)	Madrid	2008
Sri Lanka^[16]	Ref	Yang Xiuping	Colombo	January 2009
Sudan	Ref	Luo Xiaoguang (罗小光)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	September 2011
Suriname	Ref	Yuan Nansheng (袁南生)	Paramaribo	August 2009
Swaziland^[5]
Sweden	Ref	Lan Lijun (兰立俊)	Stockholm	March 2011
Switzerland^[12]	Ref	Xu Jinghu (许镜湖)	Bern	June 2013
Syria	Ref	Li Huaxin (李华新)	Damascus	August 2011
Tajikistan	Ref	Fan Xianrong (范先荣)	Dushanbe	July 2010
Tanzania	Ref	Liu Xinsheng (刘昕生)	Dar es Salaam	September 2007
Thailand	Ref	Guan Shu (管木)	Bangkok	February 2009
Togo	Ref	Wang Zuofeng (王作峰)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	January 2011
Tonga	Ref	Wang Donghua (王东华)	Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office	October 2010
Trinidad and Tobago	Ref	Yang Youming (杨优明)	Port of Spain	October 2010
Tunisia	Ref	Huo Zhengde (火正德)	Tunis	July 2010
Turkey	Ref	Gong Xiaosheng (宫小生)	Ankara	October 2008
Turkmenistan	Ref	Xiao Qinghua (肖清华)	Ashgabat	May 2011
Tuvalu^[5]
Uganda	Ref	Zhao Yali (赵亚力)	Kampala	October 2011
Ukraine	Ref	Zhang Xiyun (张喜云)	Kiev	July 2010
United Arab Emirates	Ref	Gao Yusheng (高育生)	Abu Dhabi	October 2006
United Kingdom	Ref	Liu Xiaoming (刘晓明)	London	February 2010
United States	Ref	Cui Tiankai (崔天凯)	Washington, D.C.	April 2013
Uruguay	Ref	Qu Shengwu (屈生武)	Montevideo	November 2010
Uzbekistan	Ref	Zhang Xiao (张霄)	Tashkent	March 2011
Vanuatu	Ref	Cheng Shuping (程树平)	Embassy	August 2007
Venezuela	Ref	Zhao Rongxian (赵荣宪)	Caracas	February 2010
Vietnam	Ref	Kong Xuanyou (孔铉佑)	Hanoi	August 2011
Western Sahara^[17]
Yemen	Ref	Liu Denglin (刘登林)	Sana’a	July 2009
Zambia	Ref	Zhou Yuxiao (周欲晓)	Lusaka	May 2011
Zimbabwe	Ref	Xin Shunkang (忻顺康)	Harare	August 2009

Ambassadors to international organizations

Current ambassadors from the People's Republic of China to international organizations

Host organization	Location	Ambassador
European Union	Brussels, Belgium	Song Zhe (宋哲)
United Nations	New York, United States	Liu Jieyi (刘结一)
Deputy Representative to the United Nations (Ambassador Rank)	New York, United States	Wang Min (王民)
United Nations Office in Geneva	Geneva, Switzerland	He Yafei (何亚非)
United Nations and Other International Organizations in Vienna	Vienna, Austria	Cheng Jingye (成竞业)
World Trade Organization	Geneva, Switzerland	Yi Xiaozhun (易小准)

Ambassadors-at-large

Current ambassador-at-Large from the People's Republic of China with worldwide responsibility:

Title (competence)	Ambassador
Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs of China	Wu Haitao (吴海涛)

Notes and references

↑ "The Standing Committee of the NPC". Gov.cn. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
↑ "Constitution of the People's Republic of China". Retrieved July 18, 2011.
↑ 历任大使. 中国外交人物 (in Chinese). 中华人民共和国外交部. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
1 2 Beginning on June 29, 1994, the PRC Ambassador to Spain—resident in Madrid—is also accredited to Andorra.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 These nations currently maintain official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan, and as a result the PRC has no ties with them. See also Foreign relations of the Republic of China.
1 2 3 One ambassador—resident in Wellington— is accredited to New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue.
1 2 3 The current ambassador resident in New Zealand and the current PRC ambassador to Grenada are two distinct individuals who share the same name.
↑ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the United Nations, the People's Republic of China, nor any other country aside from Turkey.
1 2 As of February 2006, the PRC ambassador to France is also accredited to Monaco.
1 2 Since 1991, the PRC Ambassador to Italy has also been accredited to San Marino.
↑ The People's Republic of China does not recognize the independence of Kosovo. See also International recognition of Kosovo.
1 2 Although the PRC and Liechtenstein maintain diplomatic relations, there is no Ambassador-level representative to the country. The Consul-General of the PRC's consulate in Zurich is the chief representative of China to Liechtenstein. Source: Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Zurich.
↑ The People's Republic of China maintains diplomatic relations with Somalia, but no longer has an embassy there. The last ambassador to Somalia was Xu Yingjie (徐英杰), who served until April 1992.
↑ Abkhazia and South Ossetia are not recognized by the United Nations, the People's Republic of China, nor any other countries aside from Russia, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
↑ Li Zhiguo, the former consul-general of the People's Republic of China in southern Sudan, has been elevated to the rank of Ambassador to South Sudan. Source: http://news.china.com.cn/rollnews/2011-07/11/content_8836185.htm
↑ From October 1972 to October 2011, the People's Republic of China Ambassador to Sri Lanka served concurrently as the Ambassador to the Maldives.
↑ The People's Republic of China does not recognize Western Sahara, nor does the PRC recognize Moroccan claims to sovereignty over Western Sahara. Sources: Western Sahara, Foreign relations of Western Sahara, Foreign relations of Morocco.

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