Tan Jian

Tan Jian (; born March 1965) is a Chinese diplomat. Previously he served as Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia and .

Biography Tan was born in March 1965. He attended the Nanjing Foreign Language School. He joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and has served in various diplomatic positions including attaché, secretary, and counsellor. In 2012 he was promoted to become counsellor and deputy director of the Department of International Economic Affairs, a position he held until 2017. On December 14, 2017, President Xi Jinping appointed him Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, a post in which he served from December 2017 to September 2020. On January 5, 2021, he was appointed , replacing . In January 2026, pursuant to a decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China removed Tan Jian from the post and appointed Shen Bo as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.