The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Warsaw has announced that on August 20, 2025, Lu Shaye, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Poland, arrived in the country to officially assume his post. He is the 21st Chinese ambassador to serve in Poland.
Born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in 1964, Lu Shaye attended the Nanjing Foreign Language School, where he studied both French and English. In 1982, he enrolled at the China Foreign Affairs University, preparing for a career in diplomacy.
Lu Shaye began his diplomatic career in 1987 with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. One of his early overseas assignments took him to the Republic of Guinea, where he worked at the Chinese Embassy between 1988 and 1991.
Specializing in African affairs, Lu Shaye spent much of the 1990s and 2000s shaping China’s relations with the continent. He held several senior roles in the Ministry’s Department of African Affairs, and from 2005 to 2009, he served as China’s Ambassador to Senegal. Upon his return, he became the department’s Director-General, leading China’s African diplomacy until 2014.
In a brief departure from foreign service, Lu Shaye served as Vice Mayor of Wuhan in 2014–2015. He soon returned to Beijing to head the Policy Research Bureau of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Foreign Affairs.
His diplomatic work continued on the global stage with high-profile ambassadorial posts in Canada (2016–2019) and later in France and Monaco (2019–2025). In 2023, he was also appointed to China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
In February 2025, Lu Shaye was appointed Special Representative of the Chinese Government for European Affairs before assuming his current role as ambassador to Poland. He assisted in the coordination and handling of European affairs, and conducted consultations and exchanges with European countries and EU institutions.
He speaks Mandarin Chinese, English and French.