List of ambassadors of China to South Korea explained

Post:	Chinese Ambassador to South Korea
Insignia:	National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (2).svg
Insigniasize:	100px
Insigniacaption:	National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent:	Xing Haiming
Incumbentsince:	January 2020
Inaugural:	Zhang Tingyan
Website:	http://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

Ministers of Imperial China

• Hsu Sou Peng was appointed December 14, 1899.^[2]
• Hsu Tai Shen was appointed November 12, 1901.^[2]

Ambassadors of the Republic of China

• 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

	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
4	Ning Fukui	September 2005	October 2008
5		October 2008	February 2010
6	Zhang Xinsen	March 2010	December 2013	^[3]
7	Qiu Guohong	February 2014	December 2019	^[4]
8	Xing Haiming	January 2020	Incumbent

See also

• China–Korea Treaty of 1882
• List of diplomatic missions in South Korea

References

• Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699
• 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. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 12923609

Notes and References

1. Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922).
2. Korean Mission
3. [Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China]
4. [Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China]