The Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau is the official representative of the People's Republic of China to Guinea-Bissau.
Name (English) | Name (Chinese) | Tenure begins | Tenure ends | Note |
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Qian Qichen | 钱其琛 | September 1974 | October 1975 | |
Li Zhenhai | 李振海 | March 1975 | February 1976 | Chargé d'affaires |
Jia Huaiji | 贾怀济 | February 1976 | November 1979 | |
Liu Yingxian | 刘英仙 | March 1980 | November 1983 | |
Hu Jingrui | 胡景瑞 | January 1984 | May 1987 | |
Shi Wushan | 石午山 | December 1987 | June 1990 | |
Hong Hong | 洪虹 | May 1998 | July 1999 | Chargé d'affaires |
Hong Hong | 洪虹 | July 1999 | August 2001 | |
Gao Kexiang | 高克祥 | September 2001 | December 2003 | |
Tian Guangfeng | 田广凤 | January 2004 | February 2007 | |
Yan Banghua | 严邦华 | February 2007 | October 2010 | |
Li Baojun | 李宝钧 | October 2010 | July 2013 | |
Wang Hua | 王华 | July 2013 | March 2017 | [1] |
Jin Hongjun | 金红军 | April 2017 | August 2020 | [2] |
Guo Ce | 郭策 | October 2020 | [3] | |
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to its north and Guinea to its southeast.
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau follows a nonaligned foreign policy and seeks friendly and cooperative relations with a wide variety of states and organizations. France, Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Libya, Cuba, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ghana, and Russia have diplomatic offices in Bissau.
Aristides Maria Pereira was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde, serving from 1975 to 1991.
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
Manuel Saturnino da Costa was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 26 October 1994 to 6 June 1997.
Guinea-Bissau–United States relations are bilateral relations between Guinea-Bissau and the United States.
Guinea-Bissau–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Guinea-Bissau and Russia.
People's Republic of China – Guinea-Bissau relations refers to the current and historical relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Guinea-Bissau. Relations were established in March 1974, several months before Guinea-Bissau's September 1974 independence. From 1990 to 1998, Guinea-Bissau maintained diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan) rather than with the People's Republic. Relations were reestablished in 1998 and maintained since.
On 12 April 2012, a coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau was staged by elements of the armed forces about two weeks before the second round of a presidential election between Carlos Gomes Júnior and Kumba Ialá. The coup started in the evening with military personnel and equipment making its way onto the streets, followed by the state-owned media being taken off-air.
José Mário Vaz is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as president of Guinea-Bissau from 23 June 2014 to 27 February 2020.
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló is a Bissau-Guinean politician serving as the president of Guinea-Bissau since February 2020. He is a political scientist and military officer who previously served as prime minister between November 2016 and January 2018.
Nuno Gomes Nabiam is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 28 February 2020 to 8 August 2023.
A coup d'état was attempted in Guinea-Bissau on 1 February 2022. A few hours later, president Umaro Sissoco Embaló declared the coup over, he said that "many" members of the security forces had been killed in a "failed attack against democracy".