Hong Kong South China Morning Post quoted sources as saying that the Chinese embassies and consulates in overseas and consulates in overseas and consulates rose more than $ 1,000 (S $ 1363) per person.

Sources said that officials engaged in diplomatic relations in China will not get salary increases.

It is reported that for Chinese officials, this is a significant salary increase, and government agencies at all levels are seeking a significant reduction of budgets.

Analysts said that this may be to appease diplomatic envoys and show that Beijing believes that they can "play a more important role."The report quoted the commentator Deng Yingwen said that after the former Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang was suddenly removed from the post of foreign ministers last year, the move may be to stabilize the diplomatic team.

Qin Gang has disappeared from the public's sight since late June last year, and was removed from the post of foreign ministers in late July. He became the shortest -term foreign minister since the founding of the Communist Party of China. In late October, he was further removed from the position of State Councilor.In February this year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress issued an announcement confirmed that Qin Gang lost his qualifications for the people's congress.The outside world has different opinions on Qin Gang's dismissal, but the official has not explained this so far.

Claus Soong, an analyst at the Berlin Think Tank Makato China Research Center, said that when the Chinese government tighten the trouser belt and advocates the slow development of macroeconomics, the salary increase "indeed indeed indeedVery rare. "