{"id":16912,"date":"2022-07-03T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy"},"modified":"2022-07-03T09:13:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T09:13:36","slug":"maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy","title":{"rendered":"Maseru welcomes new Chinese envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The People\u2019s Republic of China yesterday held a welcome reception at a local hotel for its new ambassador to Lesotho, Lei Kezhong, who has just assumed office in Maseru. Lei Kezhong arrived in Lesotho on August 1.At my first sight of Lesotho, I was amazed by the unique and spectacular landscape of the Mountain Kingdom and deeply moved by the kindness, friendliness and hospitality of Basotho,\u201d Kezhong said.<br \/>\nIn the past month he presented the letter of credence to His Majesty King Letsie III, paid courtesy calls on Prime Minister Dr Thomas Thabane, Hon. Speaker of the National Assembly Sephiri Motanyane, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Lesego Makgothi and other government ministers. This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between the People\u2019s Republic of China and the Kingdom of Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The People\u2019s Republic of China yesterday held a welcome reception at a local hotel for its new ambassador to Lesotho, Lei Kezhong, who has just assumed office in Maseru. Lei Kezhong arrived in Lesotho on August 1.At my first sight of Lesotho, I was amazed by the unique and spectacular landscape of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,246,245],"class_list":["post-16912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maseru welcomes new Chinese envoy - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The People\u2019s Republic of China yesterday held a welcome reception at a local hotel for its new ambassador to Lesotho, Le ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maseru welcomes new Chinese envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The People\u2019s Republic of China yesterday held a welcome reception at a local hotel for its new ambassador to Lesotho, Le ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T08:50:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T09:13:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c15daa4f1aa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1401\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1045\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Maseru welcomes new Chinese envoy\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-03T08:50:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-03T09:13:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c15daa4f1aa.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maseru-welcomes-new-chinese-envoy\",\"name\":\"Maseru welcomes new Chinese envoy - 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