Member state

China at the United Nations

Flag of China — Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg by Zeng Liansong (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Admitted: 1971-10-25
ISO 3166-1: CN / CHN
Charter signed: 1945-06-26
Charter ratified: 1945-09-28

A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945. A permanent member of the Security Council.

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

Organisation	Joined
Universal Postal Union	1914-03-01
International Telecommunication Union	1920-09-01
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1945-12-27
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	1946-11-04
World Meteorological Organization	1951-04-01
United Nations	1971-10-25
World Trade Organization	2001-12-11
World Health Organization	not recorded

Peacekeeping contribution

Uniformed personnel this state had deployed to UN missions in 2026-07-31, the most recent month the UN Peace and Security Data Hub reports. Counts are deployments, not distinct people.

Personnel	Deployed	Of whom women
Troops	1,570	49
Staff Officer	30	4
Individual Police	30	11
Experts on Mission	21	6

Every contributor, month by month

Position in General Assembly voting

A statistical estimate of where this state sat on the main axis of General Assembly voting, not a record of any vote. The range is what the model treats as credible; neither end of the scale is the better one.

Year	Estimate	Credible range	Votes cast
2025	-0.37	-0.56 to -0.21	191
2024	-0.86	-1.02 to -0.70	107
2023	-0.85	-1.02 to -0.68	87
2022	-1.07	-1.26 to -0.88	87
2021	-0.41	-0.58 to -0.24	86
2020	-0.59	-0.79 to -0.38	95

Every state's position

People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

Category	People
Refugees hosted	230
Asylum-seekers hosted	482
Refugees from China abroad	153,962

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

2025	2030	2035	2040	2045	2050
1,416,096,094	1,398,153,832	1,373,427,531	1,342,816,657	1,306,113,788	1,260,289,093

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Permanent representatives

6 recorded. Full list

Name	From	To
Zhang Jun	2019-07-30	in office / not recorded
Ma Zhaoxu	2018-01-25	2019-07-08
Liu Jieyi	2013-08-23	2018-03-05
Zhang Yesui	2008	2010
Wang Guangya	2003-08	2008-09
Huang Hua	1971	1976

Permanent mission

Mission: Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations
Address: Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, 350 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016
National holiday: National Day, 1 October
Accredited diplomats: 108

Accredited diplomats

Mr. Zhang Jun Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
Mr. Dai Bing Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Deputy Permanent Representative
Mr. Geng Shuang Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Deputy Permanent Representative
Mr. Yin Zhongliang Minister / Head to the Military Staff Committee
Mrs. Li Yan Minister
Mr. Ren Hongyan Minister
Ms. Hongbo Wang Minister
Mr. Huang Gang Minister Counsellor
Mr. Shen Xiaokai Minister Counsellor
Mr. Zhao Haibo Minister Counsellor
Mrs. Qian Hong Counsellor
Mr. Ouyang Ning Counsellor
Mr. Guo Jiakun Counsellor
Mrs. Ma Yuanchun Counsellor
Mr. Cheng Lie Counsellor
Ms. Zhang Ying Counsellor
Mr. Liu Yang Counsellor
Mr. Xing Jisheng Counsellor
Mr. Wu Jianjian Counsellor
Mr. Liu Liqun Counsellor
Mr. Sun Yang Counsellor / Deputy Army Representative
Mr. Sun Zhiqiang Counsellor
Mr. Liu Jian Counsellor
Ms. Jiang Hua Counsellor
Mr. Liu Chaowei Counsellor / Army Representative
Ms. Guo Zhiqi Counsellor
Mr. Liang Hengzhu Counsellor
Ms. Wang Rongfang Counsellor
Mr. He Zhiqiang Counsellor
Mr. Wan Feng Counsellor / Naval Representative
Mr. Zhang Qian Counsellor
Mr. Zhou Qingjian Counsellor / Deputy Air Force Representative
Ms. Guo Ke Counsellor
Mr. Chen Yongchao Counsellor
Ms. Wang Yan ning First Secretary
Ms. Qi Lihong First Secretary
Mr. Yang Xu First Secretary
Mr. Rong Sicai First Secretary
Mrs. Li Hongmei First Secretary
Mr. Li Hewei First Secretary
Mr. Meng Qingri First Secretary
Mrs. Fu Qiang First Secretary
Mr. Liu Xiaogang First Secretary
Mrs. Chen Wenbo First Secretary
Mr. Liang Qin First Secretary
Mr. Li Kai First Secretary
Mr. Peng Qizhong First Secretary
Mr. Liu Shaoxuan First Secretary
Mr. Han Kangmin First Secretary
Mr. Liu Yijian First Secretary
Mr. Lu Hui First Secretary
Ms. Chen Hongying First Secretary
Ms. Xu Hui First Secretary
Ms. Ling Xiaodong First Secretary / Assistant to the Head of the UN Military Staff Committee
Ms. Cao Xinyang Second Secretary
Mrs. Gui Dan Second Secretary
Mr. Gu Wenlong Second Secretary
Mr. Wen Dong Second Secretary
Ms. Yu Nan Second Secretary
Mrs. Xu Daizhu Second Secretary
Mr. Liu Yan ming Second Secretary
Mr. Gong Cheng Second Secretary
Ms. Zhang Qi Second Secretary
Mr. Ding Chao Second Secretary / Assistant to the Head of Chinese Delegation to the UN Military
Ms. Zhang Sisi Second Secretary
Mr. Nan Li Second Secretary
Mr. Xu Chi Third Secretary
Mr. Xiang Kailin Third Secretary
Ms. Huang Lijin Third Secretary
Mrs. Guo Jingnan Third Secretary
Ms. Cao Liwen Third Secretary
Ms. Zhang Zhujun Third Secretary
Mr. Han Jin Third Secretary
Ms. Wang Tao Third Secretary
Ms. Chen Huiyong Third Secretary
Mr. Long Qi Third Secretary
Mr. Zhu Zhiqiang Third Secretary
Ms. Ling Feng Third Secretary
Mr. Zhang Xin Third Secretary
Ms. Xue Ailong Third Secretary
Ms. Yan Binghan Third Secretary
Ms. Zhao Yan r ui Third Secretary
Mr. Wang Jingwen Third Secretary
Mr. Qin Xuqian Third Secretary
Ms. Zhu Jiani Third Secretary
Mr. Li Song Attaché
Mrs. Zhang Jiarui Attaché
Mr. Zhang Shining Attaché
Mr. Sun Xiaobing Attaché
Ms. Wang Yingtong Attaché
Mr. Liu Zhao Attaché
Ms. Yang Ziyu Attaché
Mr. Zhao Le Attaché
Mr. Hua Chenghang Attaché
Mr. Chen Yunchun Attaché
Mr. Wang Zixu Attaché
Mr. He Siyang Attaché
Mr. Tian Bingxu Attaché
Mr. Shi Zheng Attaché
Mr. Qi Zhang Attaché
Mr. Bo Dong Attaché
Mr. Yao Jialiang Attaché
Mr. Wang Zhenjiang Attaché
Mr. Jie Lin Attaché
Mr. Chen Yuanhang Attaché
Mr. Yuanzhou Xu Attaché
Ms. Yifan Zhang Attaché
Ms. Hang Su Attaché

The numbers

Indicator	Latest	Year
Adult literacy rate	96.74	2020
CO2 emissions per capita	9.315	2024
GDP	19,498,039,388,043	2025
GNI per capita	14,230	2025
Life expectancy at birth	78.02	2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)	1.711	2024
Net official development assistance received	-267,158,997	2023
Population	1,406,585,000	2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)	230	2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)	153,962	2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

79 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 259,461 words in all. The longest was 1973, at 7,096 words, delivered by Kuan-hua Chiao.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×14, President ×4, Deputy Prime Minister ×3, Premier of the State Council ×2. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of China — Coat of arms. 中華人民共和國國徽.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

79 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

Treaty	Signed	Ratified or acceded
Charter of the United Nations	-	28 Sep 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations	-	11 Sep 1979 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property	14 Sep 2005	-
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies	-	11 Sep 1979 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations	-	25 Nov 1975 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations	-	2 Jul 1979 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	20 Jul 1949	18 Apr 1983
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports	21 Oct 1987	-
Convention on the Rights of the Child	29 Aug 1990	2 Mar 1992
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	30 Mar 2007	1 Aug 2008
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	-	29 Dec 1981 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	27 Oct 1997	27 Mar 2001
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	5 Oct 1998	-
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid	-	18 Apr 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	17 Jul 1980	4 Nov 1980
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	12 Dec 1986	4 Oct 1988
Constitution of the World Health Organization	-	22 Jul 1946 s
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique	-	22 Jul 1946 s
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute	13 Jan 1997	18 Aug 1997 AA
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	10 Nov 2003	11 Oct 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees	-	24 Sep 1982 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936	-	11 Dec 1946 s
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946	-	19 Nov 1948 s
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium	-	25 May 1954
Convention on psychotropic substances	-	23 Aug 1985 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	20 Dec 1988	25 Oct 1989
Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947, to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933	-	12 Nov 1947 s
Protocol amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 18 May 1904, and the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910	-	4 May 1949 s
Protocol to amend the Convention for the suppression of the circulation of, and traffic in, obscene publications, concluded at Geneva on 12 September 1923	-	12 Nov 1947 s
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910	-	4 May 1949 s
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods	30 Sep 1981	11 Dec 1986 AA
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre	-	18 Feb 1983 s
Agreement to establish the South Centre	-	4 May 1995 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts	6 Jul 2006	-
Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific	29 Aug 2017	22 Nov 2020 AA
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships	5 Sep 2023	-
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank	-	10 Mar 1986 P
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank	-	3 Oct 1997 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development	-	15 Jan 1980 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization	6 Sep 1979	14 Feb 1980 AA
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972	-	22 Jan 1986 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention)	-	5 Jul 2016 a
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles	-	10 Oct 2000 A
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network	-	26 Apr 2004 s
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (with annexes)	10 Nov 2006	13 Mar 2009 AA
Convention on the Contract for International Carriage of Goods by Rail	19 Mar 2025	-
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993	18 Aug 1994	-
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports	7 Nov 2013	24 Mar 2016 AA
Convention on the International Maritime Organization	-	1 Mar 1973 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences	-	23 Sep 1980 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms	-	5 Jan 1993 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	13 Sep 1983	13 Apr 1992 A
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006	28 May 2008	14 Dec 2009 AA
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism	13 Nov 2001	19 Apr 2006
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	12 Dec 2000	23 Sep 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption	10 Dec 2003	13 Jan 2006
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes	25 Oct 2025	-
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages	-	26 Jan 1993 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents	-	5 Aug 1987 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel	-	22 Sep 2004 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	-	13 Nov 2001 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction	20 Sep 2023	15 Dec 2025
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks	6 Nov 1996	-
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards	-	22 Jan 1987 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation	7 Aug 2019	-
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity	25 Oct 1976	2 Jun 1977 A
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development	-	5 Feb 1988 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques	-	8 Jun 2005 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III)	14 Sep 1981	7 Apr 1982
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	13 Jan 1993	25 Apr 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	24 Sep 1996	-
Arms Trade Treaty	-	6 Jul 2020 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	14 Oct 1994	18 Feb 1997
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade	24 Aug 1999	22 Mar 2005
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants	23 May 2001	13 Aug 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury	10 Oct 2013	31 Aug 2016
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	-	11 Sep 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal	22 Mar 1990	17 Dec 1991
Convention on Biological Diversity	11 Jun 1992	5 Jan 1993

Recorded votes

Resolution	Date	Vote
S/RES/2827(2026)	2026-07-29	yes
A/RES/80/290	2026-07-10	yes
S/RES/2789(2025)	2025-07-29	yes
S/RES/2745(2024)	2024-07-30	yes
S/RES/2824(2026)	-	yes
A/RES/80/282	-	yes
A/RES/80/286	-	yes
S/RES/2825(2026)	-	yes
A/RES/80/296	-	yes
A/RES/80/293 B	-	yes
A/RES/80/294	-	yes
A/RES/80/293 A	-	yes
A/RES/80/297	-	yes
A/RES/80/299	-	yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

Attribute	Value	Source	Confidence	Fetched
iso2	CN	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.564916+00:00
iso3	CHN	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.564923+00:00
m49	156	un_sdg	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:11.769910+00:00
name	China	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.564902+00:00
un_admission_date	1971-10-25	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.564909+00:00
unsd_name	China	un_sdg	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:11.769916+00:00

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UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder — Unassessed · source
Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source