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The Embassy of China in Berlin |
Contact
Address: Markisches Ufer 54, 10179 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 27 58 80
Fax: +49 30 27 58 82 21
E-mail: de@mofcom.gov.cn
The Ambassador
Amb. Deng Hongbo
Deng Hongbo, born in July 1965, is a Han Chinese national and member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in 1987, he began as a staff member in the Department of Treaties and Law until 1988. From 1988 to 1993, he served as Attaché and Third Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam. Between 1993 and 1999, he held roles as Third Secretary, Deputy Division Director, and First Secretary in the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs at the Ministry. From 1999 to 2005, he was First Secretary and Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in the United States. He then served as Counselor and Deputy Director-General in the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs from 2005 to 2008. Deng was appointed Ambassador to Kenya and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme and UN-Habitat from 2008 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he was Minister-Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in the United States. Since September 2024, he has been the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Germany. He is married to Shi Ling and speaks Chinese and English fluently.
History
The Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s Republic of China established diplomatic relations in 1972. Over the past 40 years, these relations have become extremely wide-ranging, remarkably close and increasingly growing in political substance. China is Germany’s most important economic partner in Asia and Germany is China’s leading trading partner in Europe. Given the growing uncertainties in the world and the repercussions of the global economic and financial crisis which are still being felt, cooperation and coordination of policy between the two strategic partners has become increasingly important. China views Germany both economically and politically as its key partner in Europe. Important elements of bilateral relations are regular high-level coordination of policy, dynamic trade relations, investment, environmental cooperation and cooperation in the cultural and scientific sectors.
With bilateral trade worth nearly 163 billion Euro in 2015, Germany remains China’s principal trading partner in the European Union (approximately 30 per cent of China’s trade is with the EU). At the same time, the Chinese government has for some years now been stepping up its efforts to spread the Chinese language and Chinese culture abroad. This job is being done by both state cultural institutions (“cultural centres”) and the Confucius Institutes (currently 15 in Germany), which mostly take the form of university cooperation arrangements.
