List of ambassadors of China to Singapore

Ambassador of China to Singapore
National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent Cao Zhongming since April 2024
Inaugural holder	Hoo Ah Kay
Formation	1 October 1877; 147 years ago (1877-10-01)

The Ambassador of China to Singapore is the official representative of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Singapore.[1][2][3]

List of representatives to British Singapore

Qing dynasty

Name (other spelling)	Took office	Left office	Ref.
Hoo Ah Kay	October 1877	1 March 1880
Su Kwei-Ching 苏溎清	1 March 1880	1 September 1881
Tso Ping Lung 左秉隆	1 September 1881	1 May 1891
Huang Zunxian	1 May 1891	1 July 1894
Cheong Fatt Tze	1 July 1894	1 January 1897
Liu Yu-lin 刘玉麟	1 January 1897	1 May 1899
Luo Zhongyao 罗忠尧	1 May 1899	1 January 1902
Wu Shiqi 吴世奇	1 January 1902	1 May 1902
Feng Yi 凤仪	1 May 1902	1 January 1906
Sun Shiding 孙士鼎	1 January 1906	1 October 1907
Tso Ping Lung 左秉隆	1 October 1907	1 October 1910
Su Ruizhao 苏锐钊	1 October 1910	1 October 1911

Beiyang government

Name (other spelling)	Took office	Left office	Ref.
Hu Wei Xian 胡惟贤	21 September 1912	19 October 1918
Luo Chang 罗昌	19 October 1917	25 January 1919
Wu Huang 伍璜	25 January 1919	21 September 1921
Luo Chang 罗昌	21 September 1921	13 November 1923
Zhou Guoxian	13 November 1923	22 November 1924
Ma Tingliang 马廷亮	22 November 1924	19 January 1925
Chia Wen Yen 贾文燕	19 January 1925	4 February 1926
Feng Xiangguang 冯祥光	4 February 1926	19 July 1926
Ouyang Kee 欧阳祺	19 July 1926	26 May 1927

Nationalist government

Name (other spelling)	Took office	Left office	Ref.
Li Chen 李骏	26 May 1927	1 January 1929
Tang Liu 唐榴	1 January 1929
Chen Chang-lok 陈长乐	1 January 1930	1932
Huang Yen Kai 刁作谦	1 January 1933	1 January 1936
Kao Ling-po 高淩百	1 September 1936	1 January 1941
Wu Po-sheng 伍伯胜	1 January 1946	1 January 1950

List of representatives to the Republic of Singapore

For representatives after 1979, see the list of representatives of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore.

People's Republic of China

Name (other spelling)	Took office	Left office	Ref.
Zhang Qing 张青	1 December 1990	1 February 1993
Yang Wenchang 杨文昌	1 March 1993	1 June 1995
Fu Xuezhang	1 July 1995	1 July 1997
Chen Baoliu 陈宝鎏	1 August 1997	1 August 2000
Zhang Jiuhuan 张九桓	1 August 2000	1 April 2004
Zhang Yun 张云	1 May 2004	1 February 2007
Zhang Xiaokang 张小康	1 March 2007	1 April 2010
Wei Wei 魏苇	1 May 2010	1 December 2012
Duan Jielong 段洁龙	1 May 2013	1 May 2015
Chen Xiaodong 陈晓东	1 June 2015	5 August 2017
Hong Xiaoyong	1 March 2018	30 March 2022
Sun Haiyan	31 May 2022	29 July 2023[4]
Cao Zhongming 曹忠明	30 April 2024	incumbent[5]

See also

• China–Singapore relations
• List of ambassadors of Singapore to China

References

1. Kenley, David (June 2004). David Kenley, New Culture in a New World: The May Fourth Movement and the Chinese Diaspora, Chinese's Consul General in Singapore. Routledge. ISBN 1135945640.
2. "Chinese Ambassadors to Singapore". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
3. "驻新加坡共和国历任大使".
4. "驻新加坡大使孙海燕离任回国_中华人民共和国外交部". Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
5. Ng, Michelle (26 March 2024). "China's new ambassador to Singapore Cao Zhongming aims for high-quality bilateral cooperation". The Straits Times. Retrieved 25 November 2024.

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