The Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom is the official representative from the
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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.
Formerly the Chinese ambassadors represented the
Qing Empire
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
(1875–1912) and the
Republic of China (1912–1950).
List of ambassadors
* 1875–1878:
Guo Songtao
Guo Songtao ( zh, 郭嵩燾, s=郭嵩焘, p=Guō Sōngtāo, w=Kuo Sung-t’ao; 11 April 1818 – 18 July 1891) was a Chinese diplomat and statesman during the Qing dynasty. He was among the first foreign emissaries to be sent abroad by the Q ...
* 1878–1885:
Zeng Jize
Zeng (, ) is a Chinese family name. In Cantonese, it is Tsang; In Wade-Giles, such as those in Taiwan, Tseng or Tzeng; in Malaysia and Singapore, Chen or Cheng; in the Philippines, Chan; in Indonesia, Tjan; in Vietnam, Tăng. The surname Zeng is ...
* 1885–1889:
* 1889–1893:
Xue Fucheng
* 1893–1896:
Kung Chao-Yuan
* 1896–1901:
* 1901–1905:
* 1905–1907:
Wang Daxie
Wang Daxie (; 1860–1929) was a Chinese politician who twice served as Premier of the Republic of China
The Premier of the Republic of China, officially the President of the Executive Yuan ( Chinese: 行政院院長), is the head of the ...
* 1907–1910:
Li Jingfang
Li Jingfang GCVO (李經方; 1854 – 28 September 1934), also known as Li Ching-fong, was a Chinese statesman during the Qing dynasty. Being the nephew and adopted son of the late statesman Li Hongzhang, he served in his adoptive father's secre ...
* 1910–1914:
* 1914–1920:
Alfred Sao-ke Sze
Alfred Sao-ke Sze (; 1877–1958) was a prominent Chinese politician and diplomat during the most turbulent period in modern Chinese history.
Early life
Sze was born on April 10, 1877. In 1892, Sze moved to Washington, D.C. with his father, wh ...
* 1920–1922:
Wellington Koo
Koo Vi Kyuin (; January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a statesman of the Republic of China. He was one of Republic of China's representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Wellington Koo ...
* 1922–1925:
* 1925:
Yan Huiqing
* 1926–1929:
Wang Jingwei
Wang Jingwei (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), born as Wang Zhaoming and widely known by his pen name Jingwei, was a Chinese politician. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang, leading a government in Wuhan in oppositi ...
* 1929–1932:
Alfred Sao-ke Sze
Alfred Sao-ke Sze (; 1877–1958) was a prominent Chinese politician and diplomat during the most turbulent period in modern Chinese history.
Early life
Sze was born on April 10, 1877. In 1892, Sze moved to Washington, D.C. with his father, wh ...
* 1932–1941:
Guo Taiqi
Quo Tai-chi (; 1888–1952) was a diplomat during the Republic of China and an active member of the Kuomintang from the early years of the Republic of China until shortly after the fall of mainland China to the Communists.
Quo was born in Hu ...
* 1941–1946:
Wellington Koo
Koo Vi Kyuin (; January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a statesman of the Republic of China. He was one of Republic of China's representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Wellington Koo ...
* 1946–1950:
Cheng Tien-hsi
* 1954–1962:
* 1962–1967:
Xiong Xianghui
* 1967–1969:
* 1969–1970:
Ma Jiajun
* 1970–1972:
Pei Jianzhang Pei Jianzhang (; born 1927) is a Chinese retired diplomat. He was born in Rizhao, Shandong.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1945. He was acting chargé d'affaires for China in the United Kingdom (1971). He served as the first Chinese ambas ...
* 1972–1977:
Song Zhiguang
* 1978–1983:
Ke Hua
Ke Hua (; 19 December 1915 – 1 January 2019) was a Chinese diplomat who served as Chinese Ambassador to Guinea from 1960 to 1964, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana from 1972 to 1974, Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines from 1975 to 1978, and Ch ...
* 1983–1985:
* 1985–1987:
* 1987–1991:
Ji Chaozhu
Ji Chaozhu (July 30, 1929 – April 29, 2020) was a Chinese diplomat who held a number of important positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC), most notably as English interpreter for Chairman Mao ...
* 1991–1995:
* 1995–1997:
Jiang Enzhu
Jiang Enzhu (; born 14 December 1938) is a Chinese retired diplomat and politician. Jiang was a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, he served as Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, as president of the Xinhua News Agency, as director o ...
* 1997–2002:
* 2002–2007:
* 2007–2010:
Fu Ying
Fu or FU may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
* Fool Us, Penn & Teller's magic-competition television show
*Fǔ, a type of ancient Chinese vessel
*Fu (poetry) (赋), a Chinese genre of rhymed prose
*'' FU: Friendship Unlimited'', a 2017 Marat ...
* 2010–2021:
Liu Xiaoming
/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text ...
* 2021-:
Zheng Zeguang
Zheng Zeguang (; born October 1963) is a Chinese diplomat currently serving as the Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China.
Career
After teaching at a Guangdong middle school from 1980 to ...
See also
*
List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China
*
China–United Kingdom relations
Chinese-United Kingdom relations (), more commonly known as British–Chinese relations, Anglo-Chinese relations and Sino-British relations, are the interstate relations between China (with its various governments through history) and the Unit ...
References
{{Ambassadors of China
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...