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The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in
The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by U.S. President George W. Bush and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad and the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was upgraded into the embassy in Nanjing. However, the central government of the nationalists was relocated to Taipei in 1949 due to the Chinese Civil War and the embassy was reopened in 1953. On January 1, 1979, the embassy was transferred to Beijing after normalizing relations with the communist government on the mainland.
The , eight story facility incorporates a great deal of free-standing transparent and opaque glass in its design. It is located on a plot of land. The embassy warehouse is located in the Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone in U.S. Embassy Auction
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Embassy of the United States, Beijing
{{Authority control Beijing China–United States relations United States Chaoyang District, Beijing
China
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. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
In addition to Beijing, it covers the municipalities of Tianjin and Chongqing
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and the provinces of Gansu
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The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi
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, Shaanxi, Shandong
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Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
Sichuan, Tibet Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, and Yunnan.
History
The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by U.S. President George W. Bush and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad and the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was upgraded into the embassy in Nanjing. However, the central government of the nationalists was relocated to Taipei in 1949 due to the Chinese Civil War and the embassy was reopened in 1953. On January 1, 1979, the embassy was transferred to Beijing after normalizing relations with the communist government on the mainland.
The , eight story facility incorporates a great deal of free-standing transparent and opaque glass in its design. It is located on a plot of land. The embassy warehouse is located in the Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone in Shunyi District
Shunyi District () is an administrative district of Beijing, located to the northeast of the city's urban core. As of 2014, the population of the district is around 983,000, of which approximately 601,000 have local residency permits. The Beiji ...
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U.S. State Department
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. "U.S. Embassy Warehouse – No.18 Tianzhu Road, Area A, Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone Shunyi, Beijing (See attached map)" and "北京市顺义区天竺空港工业区A区天柱路18号"
Since the embassy is legally out of reach of the Government of China, it was used as the hiding place of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng after he escaped from house arrest
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Principal officers
Ambassadors
Deputy Chiefs of Mission (DCM)
See also
*List of diplomatic missions of the United States
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* United States Ambassador to China
* U.S. Consulate General Chengdu
* U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou
* U.S. Consulate General Shanghai
* U.S. Consulate General Shenyang
* U.S. Consulate General Wuhan
* Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau
* Embassy of People's Republic of China in Washington, D.C.
* International School of Beijing
* Americans in China
Notes
# Note 1：State Department rocords for foreign serive list indicates that Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing changed from B. Lynn Pascoe to Scott S. Hallford between Spring 1992 and Fall 1992.
References
External links
Embassy of the United States, Beijing
{{Authority control Beijing China–United States relations United States Chaoyang District, Beijing