Ni Jian

Ni Jian (; born 1961) is a Chinese diplomat and former ambassador. He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Iraq and later to the United Arab Emirates. He currently serves as vice president of the Chinese Former Diplomats Association.

Biography Ni was born in 1961. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and began his diplomatic career in the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs. Between 1992 and 1996, Ni served at the Embassy of China in Israel, first as attaché and later as third secretary. Upon returning to Beijing, he continued work in the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs and successively served in managerial positions.

From 2001 to 2002, he returned to Israel as counsellor at the Chinese embassy. He subsequently served as deputy director of the Hotan Administrative Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps before returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006 as deputy director of the General Office.

Between 2008 and 2011, Ni served as Consul General of China in Manchester. In 2011, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Iraq, serving until 2013. After completing his assignment in Iraq, Ni became minister at the Embassy of China in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2016.

In 2016, Ni was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United Arab Emirates. He remained in office until June 2022, when President Xi Jinping, pursuant to a decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, removed him from the post. Following his retirement from diplomatic service, Ni became vice president of the Chinese Former Diplomats Association.