# 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.

## 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 | | Bettino Ricasoli | Cixi | 1870 |
| March 7, 1870 | Alessandro Fe' d'Ostiani [de; it] | | Giovanni Lanza | Cixi | 1877 |
| February 22, 1877 | Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani | | Agostino Depretis | Cixi | 1878 |
| December 12, 1878 | Ferdinando de Luca [it] | | Benedetto Cairoli | Cixi | 1889 |
| December 5, 1889 | Alberto Pansa [it] | | Francesco Crispi | Guangxu | 1894 |
| February 6, 1894 | Alessandro Bardi | | Francesco Crispi | Guangxu | 1896 |
| March 6, 1898 | Renato De Martino [it; zh] | | Antonio di Rudinì | Guangxu | 1899 |
| March 23, 1899 | Giuseppe Salvago Raggi | | Luigi Pelloux | Cixi | 1901 |
| December 19, 1901 | Giovanni Gallina | | Giuseppe Zanardelli | Cixi | 1904 |
| July 11, 1904 | Carlo Baroli | | Giovanni Giolitti | Cixi | 1906 |
| November 3, 1907 | Giulio Cesare Vinci | | Giovanni Giolitti | Cixi | 1910 |
| March 3, 1910 | Federico Barilari | | Sidney Sonnino | Puyi | 1911 |
| May 11, 1911 | Carlo Sforza | | Giovanni Giolitti | Puyi | 1915 |
| September 1, 1916 | Carlo Aliotti | | Antonio Salandra | Yuan Shikai | 1919 |
| January 6, 1919 | Carlo Garbasso | | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | Xu Shichang | 1919 |
| May 27, 1920 | Carlo Durazzo | | Francesco Saverio Nitti | Xu Shichang | 1921 |
| September 28, 1922 | Vittorio Cerruti | | Luigi Facta | Li Yuanhong | 1926 |
| February 6, 1927 | Daniele Varè | | Benito Mussolini | Wellington Koo | 1931 |
| May 26, 1932 | Galeazzo Ciano | | Benito Mussolini | Lin Sen | 1933 |
| September 19, 1933 | Raffaele Boscarelli | | Benito Mussolini | Lin Sen | 1934 |
| December 6, 1934 | Vincenzo Lojacono | | Benito Mussolini | Lin Sen | 1937 |
| January 4, 1937 | Giuliano Cora | | Benito Mussolini | Lin Sen | 1937 |
| June 22, 1938 | Francesco Maria Taliani de Marchio | | Benito Mussolini | Lin Sen | 1946 |
| March 6, 1946 | Sergio Fenoaltea | | Alcide De Gasperi | Chiang Kai-shek | 1949 |
| 1949 | Ezio Mizzan | chargé d'affaires | Alcide De Gasperi | Chiang Kai-shek | 1951 |
| 1951 – 1971 |
| December 8, 1970 | Antonino Restivo | chargé d'affaires | Emilio Colombo | Soong Ching-ling | 1971 |
| May 12, 1971 | Folco Trabalza | | Emilio Colombo | Zhu De | 1975 |
| September 4, 1975 | Marco Francisci Di Baschi | | Aldo Moro | Zhu De | 1980 |
| August 1, 1980 | Giulio Tamagnini | | Francesco Cossiga | Ye Jianying | 1984 |
| January 30, 1984 | Raffaele Marras | | Bettino Craxi | Li Xiannian | 1987 |
| February 1, 1987 | Alberto Solera | | 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 |