| Office1: | Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region |
| Term Start1: | April 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Said Djinnit |
| Office2: | Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Congo |
| Term Start2: | October 2015 |
| Term End2: | May 2018 |
| Predecessor2: | Guan Jian |
| Successor2: | Ma Fulin |
| Office3: | Chinese Ambassador to Senegal |
| Term Start3: | September 2012 |
| Term End3: | September 2015 |
| Predecessor3: | Gong Yuanxing |
| Successor3: | Zhang Xun |
| Office4: | Chinese Ambassador to Niger |
| Term Start4: | November 2009 |
| Term End4: | October 2012 |
| Predecessor4: | Chen Gonglai |
| Successor4: | Shi Hu |
| Xia Huang | |
| Native Name: | 夏煌 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Place: | Zhu County, Hebei, China |
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma Mater: | China Foreign Affairs University University of Liège École nationale d'administration |
Xia Huang (; born January 1962) is a Chinese diplomat who currently serves as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region, a position he took up on April 1, 2019.[1]
Xia was born in Zhu County, Hebei, in January 1962. After the Resumption of College Entrance Examination in 1980, he entered the China Foreign Affairs University, where he graduated in August 1985. He went to the Law School of the University of Liège in Belgium for further study. After university, he interned at the Chinese Embassy in Belgium.
Xia returned to China in January 1987 and that same year became an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In August 1990 he was sent to Gabon, where he worked as an attaché. In September 1996, he was accepted to the École nationale d'administration and graduated in February 1998. Then he worked in the Translation Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He was counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in France in June 2002, and held that office until July 2007. Then he served as an official in the Standing Committee of the Jiamusi Chinese Communist Party Committee. In November 2009 he was appointed Chinese Ambassador to Niger, a position he held until October 2012, when he was transferred to Senegal and appointed the Chinese Ambassador. In October 2015 he became Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, and served until May 2018. He was appointed Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region in January 2019 by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.[2]