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List of ambassadors of China to South Korea

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Chinese Ambassador to South Korea
Incumbent
Xing Haiming
since January 2020
Inaugural holderZhang Tingyan
FormationSeptember 1992; 32 years ago (1992-09)
Websitehttp://kr.china-embassy.org

The Chinese Ambassador to South Korea is the official representative of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Korea.

Chinese-Korean diplomatic relations were well established before the Joseon period of Korean history. In 1882, the governments of the Kingdom of Great Joseon and in Beijing established diplomatic relations.[1]

The current official title of the incumbent diplomat is "Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Korea."

List of representatives

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Ministers of Imperial China

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Ambassadors of the Republic of China

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  • From 1949 to 1992 the governments in Taipei/Nanjing and Seoul maintained diplomatic relations on ambassadorial level.

Ambassadors of the People's Republic of China

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# Ambassador Took office Left office Notes
1 Zhang Tingyan September 1992 August 1998
2 Wu Dawei September 1998 July 2001
3 Li Bin October 2001 August 2005 [3]
4 Ning Fukui September 2005 October 2008
5 Cheng Yonghua October 2008 February 2010
6 Zhang Xinsen March 2010 December 2013 [4]
7 Qiu Guohong February 2014 December 2019 [5]
8 Xing Haiming January 2020 Incumbent

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament, p. 32-33., p. 32, at Google Books
  2. ^ a b Korean Mission p. 33., p. 33, at Google Books
  3. ^ Europa World Year Book 2004, p. 2511., p. 2511, at Google Books
  4. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Embassy in the ROK
  5. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Ambassadors to R. O. K. (the Republic of Korea) [1], 驻大韩民国历任大使, [2]

References

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