Envoys strengthen efforts to defeat COVID-19
Many Chinese diplomats working overseas have had to reduce or cancel business trips back home due to the pandemic.
Instead, they have remained at their posts to bolster the fight against the outbreak and maintain cooperation and exchanges with other countries.
Four senior diplomats were unable to return to China to attend the two sessions this year in their capacity as the country’s senior political advisers.
The quartet are Chinese ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou, UNESCO Deputy Director-General Qu Xing, China’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Zhang Ming and Chinese Ambassador to Greece Zhang Qiyue.
The COVID-19 pandemic meant they could not…