# List of ambassadors of Peru to China

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Peru in the People's Republic of China is the official representative of the Republic of Peru to the Government of the People's Republic of China.
The ambassador to China was also accredited to Japan until 1971, when Peru recognized the PRC, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from the establishment of relations in 1988 until 2017, when Peru declared the Korean ambassador as a persona non grata and gave him 5 days to leave the country in response to the country's missile launches earlier that month.
Peru established relations with the Chinese Empire with the signing of a treaty in Tianjin on June 26, 1874. Peru's first Resident Ambassador was named the next year, assuming his duties on May 20, 1878, while the Chinese ambassador would only reach Peru in 1883, after the War of the Pacific.
After the establishment of the Republic of China, Peru maintained its relations with the new Kuomintang government. In 1944, the diplomatic status of the two countries was raised to embassy level, and high-level officials of the two countries exchanged frequent visits in the 1950s and 1960s.
After the establishment of Juan Velasco Alvarado's Revolutionary Government, Peru established relations with the People's Republic of China on November 2, 1971, with the Republic of China severing its relations and closing its embassy in Lima as a result, and the PRC opening its embassy the following year. As such, Peru became the third Latin American country to recognize the Beijing-based government, and has since adhered to the One China policy.

## List of representatives

| Name | Title | Term begin | Term end | President | Notes |
| 1874: China and Peru formally establish relations |||||||
| Juan Federico Elmore [es] | CdA | May 20, 1878 | before 1881 | Manuel Pardo | In 1874, Elmore, the Peruvian minister to China and Japan, left for Lake Manzala. Dr. Elmore intended to establish the Peruvian Mission in Japan, after which he would return to Beijing to ratify the treaty with China. |
| 1912: Republic of China formally established |||||||
| Manuel de Freyre y Santander | MP | 1919 | 1919 | Augusto B. Leguía | As Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan and China |
| Manuel Elías Bonnemaison | MP | August 9, 1929 | October 1936 | Augusto B. Leguía | (1865–1961) |
| Ricardo Rivera Schreiber | MP | 1936 | 1941 | Óscar R. Benavides | |
| 1944: Relations elevated to embassy level |||||||
| Santiago F. Bedoya Monjoy [de] | AEP | September 1, 1944 | July 28, 1945 | Manuel Prado y Ugarteche | First ambassador to China. |
| Carlos Nicholson Jefferson [es] | AEP | July 28, 1945 | October 29, 1948 | José Luis Bustamante y Rivero | Nicholson Jefferson, Mr. Carlos Born in Arequipa about 1890 of British parents. ... Appointed ambassador to China in January 1946. |
| Juan José Sala | CdA | 1949 | | José Luis Bustamante y Rivero | As Chargé d'affaires (a.i.) after the closure of the embassy of Peru due to the Chinese Civil War. |
| Aníbal Ponce Sobrevilla [es] | AEP | January 6, 1961 | March 11, 1965 | Manuel Prado y Ugarteche | Although Peru did not have any representative in Taipei for a period about ten years, the recent appointment of His Excellency Anibal Ponce Sobrevilla the Peruvian Ambassador to China has further strengthened the friendly relations between Peru and China. |
| José Luis De Cossio y Ruiz De Somocurcio | CdA | December 11, 1962 | | Ricardo Pío Pérez Godoy | General Chen Chia-shang, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force, Admiral Ni Yue - Yes, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, and four other Chinese military leaders in recognition of their contributions to the promotion of friendly relations between the two countries. |
| José Carlos Ferreyros Balta | | July 18, 1966 | 1969 | Nicolás Lindley López | Sent to attend the inauguration of Chiang Kai-shek on May 20. He arrived on the 18th. |
| Jorge Pérez Garreaud | CdA | | November 3, 1971 | Juan Velasco Alvarado | Final representative to the Republic of China. |
| 1971: Relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Peru formally established; Republic of China (ROC) represented by a Commercial Economic Counselor since 1994 |||||||
| Eduardo Valdez Pérez del Castillo | AEP | November 2, 1971 | 1975 | Juan Velasco Alvarado | |
| César Espejo Romero | AEP | March 21, 1975 | 1977 | Francisco Morales Bermúdez | |
| Alfredo Ramos Suero | AEP | March 9, 1977 | 1980 | Francisco Morales Bermúdez | |
| Juan Alayza Rospigliosi | AEP | January 1, 1981 | December 30, 1985 | Fernando Belaúnde Terry | |
| Roberto Villarán Koechlin | AEP | December 30, 1985 | before 1990 | Alan García | Villarán became ambassador in Santiago de Chile on October 16, 1990 |
| Gabriel Ignacio García Pike [es] | AEP | August 1, 1993 | June 7, 1994 | Alberto Fujimori | |
| Jorge César Gordillo Barreto | AEP | June 7, 1994 | | Alberto Fujimori | |
| Martha Toledo-Ocampo Ureña | AEP | ? | 2002? | | |
| Luis Chang Reyes [es] | AEP | December 17, 2002 | July 28, 2006 | Alejandro Toledo | |
| Jesús Wu [es] | AEP | March 21, 2007 | June 25, 2009 | Alan García | Also accredited to Pakistan and North Korea. |
| Harold Forsyth | AEP | June 16, 2009 | August 3, 2011 | Alan García | |
| Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel | AEP | November 1, 2011 | June 23, 2014 | Ollanta Humala | Named as concurrent ambassador to North Korea on March 11, 2012. |
| Juan Carlos Capuñay Chávez | AEP | August 27, 2014 | September 11, 2017 | Ollanta Humala | Previously destined to the embassy in Peking in the periods between 1972 and 1976 and 1991–94. Also accredited to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. |
| Luis Felipe Quesada Incháustegui | AEP | December 13, 2017 | September 27, 2022 | Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | Also accredited to Mongolia and Pakistan. Retired in 2022. |
| Marco Vinicio Balarezo Lizarzaburu | AEP | December 25, 2022 | Incumbent | Dina Boluarte | Ambassador |