This day, 23 February, in 1979, Ambassador Ding Xuesong submitted her credentials to Queen Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, thus becoming the first female ambassador appointed by the Chinese government since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Ding would later oversee the first to China by a sitting Dutch Prime Minister and become Ambassador to Denmark and Ireland.
这一天，1979年2月23日，丁雪松大使向荷兰的朱莉安娜·路易斯·艾玛·玛丽·威廉敏娜女王递交了全权证书，从而成为中华人民共和国成立以来中国政府任命的第一位女大使。 丁后来由现任荷兰总理监督首次前往中国，并成为驻丹麦和爱尔兰大使。
