Li Ming () (Born September 1974) is a Chinese diplomat and politician serving as the current
Chinese ambassador to Serbia since 2023. Li previously served as the first
Chinese Ambassador to the Solomon Islands from 2020 to 2023.
Biography
Li Joined the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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in 1995; from 2000 to 2004, he served as Vice Consul at the Chinese Consulate-General at
Toronto
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, Canada.
From 2004 to 2013, Li served as Second Secretary, Deputy Director, and later Director of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 2013 to 2016, Li served as counselor at the
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Australia, from 2016 to 2020, he served as the Counselor and Deputy Director General at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs.
Following Solomon Islands recognition of the People's Republic of China in 2019 (previously recognizing the
Republic of China (Taiwan)
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), Li was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Solomon Islands in 2020.
He left the Solomons in September 2023, and on 2 October 2023 handed over his credentials as the Chinese ambassador to Serbia.
Family
Li is married; he has one son.
Notes
References
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Living people
1974 births
Ambassadors of China to Serbia
Ambassadors of China to the Solomon Islands