Consul General (with Ambassadorial Rank) Tong Xiaoling was born in 1962 in Beijing. She graduated from China University of Foreign Affairs.

1985-1990 Staff Member of Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1990-1991 Attache, Commercial Representative Office in Singapore

1991-1994 Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Embassy of China in Singapore

1994-1998 Second Secretary, Deputy Director, Director, Department of Asian Affairs, MFA

1998-2003 Counsellor, Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, and then Embassy of China in the Philippines

2003-2004 Deputy Party Secretary, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province

2004-2007 Counsellor, General Office, and then Department of Asian Affairs, MFA

2007-2009 Ambassador of China to Brunei Darussalam

2009-2010 Ambassador, MFA

2010-2012 Ambassador of China to ASEAN

2014-2017 Deputy Commissioner of the Commissioner's Office of MFA in HKSAR

2017- Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Vancouver