Sun Bigan (C, front), currently head of the Chinese mission team in Baghdad for the reopening of the embassy, has a group photo with the staff and security members in Baghdad, Iraq, July 9, 2004. China on Friday formally reopened its embassy in Iraq, after more than four months of preparations for this move.

Sun Bigan (C, front), currently head of the Chinese mission team in Baghdad for the reopening of the embassy, has a group photo with the staff and security members in Baghdad, Iraq, July 9, 2004. China on Friday formally reopened its embassy in Iraq, after more than four months of preparations for this move.