Chinese President Xi Jinping received the credentials of 29 new ambassadors to China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.

The ambassadors were from Afghanistan, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Madagascar, Italy, Timor-Leste, Micronesia, Sudan, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Moldova, Denmark, Belgium, Oman, Gambia, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Belarus, Ireland, Israel, Guinea-Bissau, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iraq and Argentina. Siddharth Chatterjee, the new UN Resident Coordinator in China, also presented his letter of appointment.