| Office1: | Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term Start1: | September 1978 | ||||
| Term End1: | March 1983 | ||||
| Predecessor1: | Song Zhiguang | ||||
| Successor1: | Chen Zhaoyuan | ||||
| Office2: | Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines | ||||
| Term Start2: | December 1975 | ||||
| Term End2: | April 1978 | ||||
| Predecessor2: | Position established | ||||
| Successor2: | Chen Xinren | ||||
| Office3: | Chinese Ambassador to Ghana | ||||
| Term Start3: | September 1972 | ||||
| Term End3: | August 1974 | ||||
| Predecessor3: | Huang Hua | ||||
| Successor3: | Yang Keming | ||||
| Office4: | Chinese Ambassador to Guinea | ||||
| Term Start4: | March 1960 | ||||
| Term End4: | May 1964 | ||||
| Predecessor4: | Position established | ||||
| Successor4: | Chai Zemin | ||||
| Ke Hua | |||||
| Native Name: | 柯华 | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||
| Birth Name: | Lin Dechang (Chinese: 林德常) | ||||
| Birth Date: | 1915 12, df=y | ||||
| Birth Place: | Puning, Guangdong, China | ||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||
| Spouse: | Zhang Ming | ||||
| Children: | 3, including Ke Lingling | ||||
| Alma Mater: | Yenching University | ||||
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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 Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1983.[1]
Ke Hua was born as Lin Dechang in Lihu Town of Puning County, Guangdong Province, on December 19, 1915.
He entered the Yenching University in 1935, during his school days, he participated in the December 9th Movement. In April 1937, he visited Yan'an, where he got the chance to meet Mao Zedong. In November 1937, he went to Linfen, Shanxi to join the Eighth Route Army.
After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, he became vice-party chief of Xi'an, Shaanxi. In December 1954, he was transferred to Beijing, capital of China, where he was appointed director of the Department of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In March 1960, he was appointed Chinese Ambassador to Guinea, a position he held until May 1964. Then, he successively served as Chinese Ambassador to Ghana from 1972 to 1974, Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines from 1975 to 1978, and Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1983. Ke returned to China in 1983, and that same year, he was appointed counselor of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. He was involved in the early stage of Sino-British talks on Hong Kong's future in the early 1980s.[2] In 1988, he became a member of the 7th National Committee Standing committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He retired in 1995. On January 1, 2019, he died of an illness in Beijing, aged 103.
Ke married Zhang Ming, and the couple had three daughters. His youngest daughter, Ke Lingling, was Xi Jinping's first wife. Ke Lingling has been living in the United Kingdom since 1982.