List of ambassadors of Italy to China

The Italian ambassador to China is the head of the Italian diplomatic mission in China, the official representative of the Government in Rome to the Government of China.

Ambassador of Italy to China
Emblem of Italy
Incumbent Massimo Ambrosetti since May 17, 2023
Inaugural holder	Vittorio Sallier De La Tour
Formation	1866

List of representatives

Term start	Head of mission	Observations	List of prime ministers of Italy	List of heads of state of China	Term end
March 13, 1867	Vittorio Sallier De La Tour[1]		Bettino Ricasoli	Cixi	1870
March 7, 1870	Alessandro Fe' d'Ostiani [de; it][1]		Giovanni Lanza	Cixi	1877
February 22, 1877	Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani[1]		Agostino Depretis	Cixi	1878
December 12, 1878	Ferdinando de Luca [it][1]		Benedetto Cairoli	Cixi	1889
December 5, 1889	Alberto Pansa [it][1]		Francesco Crispi	Guangxu	1894
February 6, 1894	Alessandro Bardi[1]		Francesco Crispi	Guangxu	1896
March 6, 1898	Renato De Martino [it; zh][1]		Antonio di Rudinì	Guangxu	1899
March 23, 1899	Giuseppe Salvago Raggi[1]		Luigi Pelloux	Cixi	1901
December 19, 1901	Giovanni Gallina[1]		Giuseppe Zanardelli	Cixi	1904
July 11, 1904	Carlo Baroli[1]		Giovanni Giolitti	Cixi	1906
November 3, 1907	Giulio Cesare Vinci[1]		Giovanni Giolitti	Cixi	1910
March 3, 1910	Federico Barilari[1]		Sidney Sonnino	Puyi	1911
May 11, 1911	Carlo Sforza[1]		Giovanni Giolitti	Puyi	1915
September 1, 1916	Carlo Aliotti[1]		Antonio Salandra	Yuan Shikai	1919
January 6, 1919	Carlo Garbasso[1]		Vittorio Emanuele Orlando	Xu Shichang	1919
May 27, 1920	Carlo Durazzo[1]		Francesco Saverio Nitti	Xu Shichang	1921
September 28, 1922	Vittorio Cerruti[1]		Luigi Facta	Li Yuanhong	1926
February 6, 1927	Daniele Varè[1]		Benito Mussolini	Wellington Koo	1931
May 26, 1932	Galeazzo Ciano[1]		Benito Mussolini	Lin Sen	1933
September 19, 1933	Raffaele Boscarelli[1]		Benito Mussolini	Lin Sen	1934
December 6, 1934	Vincenzo Lojacono[1]		Benito Mussolini	Lin Sen	1937
January 4, 1937	Giuliano Cora[1]		Benito Mussolini	Lin Sen	1937
June 22, 1938	Francesco Maria Taliani de Marchio[1]		Benito Mussolini	Lin Sen	1946
March 6, 1946	Sergio Fenoaltea[1]		Alcide De Gasperi	Chiang Kai-shek	1949
1949	Ezio Mizzan[1]	chargé d'affaires	Alcide De Gasperi	Chiang Kai-shek	1951
1951 – 1971
December 8, 1970	Antonino Restivo[2]	chargé d'affaires	Emilio Colombo	Soong Ching-ling	1971
May 12, 1971	Folco Trabalza[3]		Emilio Colombo	Zhu De	1975
September 4, 1975	Marco Francisci Di Baschi[4]		Aldo Moro	Zhu De	1980
August 1, 1980	Giulio Tamagnini[4]		Francesco Cossiga	Ye Jianying	1984
January 30, 1984	Raffaele Marras[5]		Bettino Craxi	Li Xiannian	1987
February 1, 1987	Alberto Solera[5]		Bettino Craxi	Li Xiannian	1990
February 28, 1990	Oliviero Rossi		Giulio Andreotti	Yang Shangkun	1994
April 23, 1994	Alessandro Quaroni		Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Jiang Zemin	1998
September 17, 1998	Paolo Bruni		Romano Prodi	Jiang Zemin	2003
April 30, 2003	Gabriele Menegatti		Silvio Berlusconi	Hu Jintao	2006
December 11, 2006	Riccardo Sessa		Romano Prodi	Hu Jintao	2010
December 12, 2010	Attilio Massimo Iannucci		Silvio Berlusconi	Hu Jintao	2013
January 5, 2013	Alberto Bradanini		Mario Monti	Hu Jintao	2015
July 20, 2015	Ettore Francesco Sequi		Matteo Renzi	Xi Jinping	2019
January 2, 2020	Luca Ferrari		Giuseppe Conte	Xi Jinping	2022
May 17, 2023	Massimo Ambrosetti		Giorgia Meloni	Xi Jinping	incumbent