Recently, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping announced the appointment of the following new Ambassadors based on the decisions adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress:

I. Zhao Bin was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, replacing Zhu Jing.

II. Zhou Ding was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Zimbabwe, replacing Guo Shaochun.

III. Tang Songgen was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Latvia, replacing Liang Jianquan.