{"id":16538,"date":"2026-05-07T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16538"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:10:03","slug":"president-handover-ceremony-in-costa-rica-chen-xiaodong-departs-as-xis-special-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16538","title":{"rendered":"<strong>President handover ceremony in Costa Rica: Chen Xiaodong departs as Xi&#8217;s special envoy<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing. As a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chen Xiaodong, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, will attend the presidential handover ceremony in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Chen will attend the ceremony on May 7 and 8. 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As a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chen Xiaodong, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, will attend the presidential handover ceremony in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. According to a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Chen will attend the ceremony on May 7 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,163,160,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-diplomacy","category-news","category-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President handover ceremony in Costa Rica: Chen Xiaodong departs as Xi&#039;s special envoy - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16538\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President handover ceremony in Costa Rica: Chen Xiaodong departs as Xi&#039;s special envoy - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beijing. 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