On January 9, 2025, after an earthquake struck Ding-ri County in the city of Xigaze, Xizang, leaders of many countries and heads of international organizations sent messages (letters) of condolence to President Xi Jinping or expressed their sincere sympathies in other ways. They include:
Russian President Vladimir Putin; General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee To Lam; Vietnamese President Lương Cường; General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith; First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel; Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko; Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev; Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov; Tajik President Emomali Rahmon; Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov; Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev; Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev; Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan; Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari; Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu; Nepali President Ramchandra Paudel; Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam; the Fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck; Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud; Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said; Chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al-Alimi; Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno; President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra; President of Seychelles Wavel Ramkalawan; Cape Verdean President José Maria Neves; Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema; French President Emmanuel Macron; Spanish King Felipe VI; Finnish President Alexander Stubb; Italian President Sergio Mattarella; Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić; Rotating Chair of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Zeljka Cvijanovic; El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele; Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega; Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba; Acting President of the Republic of Korea Choi Sang-mok; Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif; United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Nurlan Yermekbayev.
The foreign leaders extended condolences and sympathy over the heavy casualties and property damage caused by the earthquake, and spoke highly of the Chinese government's swift and effective rescue operations. They expressed their belief that under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people in the disaster-hit areas will surely overcome the disaster and rebuild their homes.