The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the

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of the

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in China. It serves as the administrative office of the

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. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District,

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. In addition to Beijing, it covers the municipalities of

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and Chongqing and the provinces of Gansu,

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Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

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, Shanxi,

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, Shandong

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, and

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History

Gary Locke With Chen Guangcheng May 1, 2012

The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by

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and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the

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and the

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. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was upgraded into the embassy in

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. However, the

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of the

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was relocated to

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in 1949 due to the

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and the embassy was reopened in 1953. On January 1, 1979, the embassy was transferred to Beijing after normalizing relations with the

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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.U.S. Embassy Auction
" () U.S. State Department. "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

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, it was used as the hiding place of Chinese dissident

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after he escaped from house arrest.

Principal officers

Ambassadors

Deputy Chiefs of Mission (DCM)

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
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China–United States relations

Chaoyang District, Beijing