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Photograph taken inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing of Ambassador Gary Locke with Chen Guangcheng. The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by U.S. President George W. Bush [3] 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.
It is America's second purpose-built diplomatic facility in China, following the completion of the Beijing Embassy in 2008. The State Department spent $267 million on the project, [5] as part of a multi-year, $1.5 billion building plan for the American missions in China. [1]
The US Consul General, Thomas Sammons contacted Mr Ezra who agreed to sell the premises to the US Government for the same price he had paid for them. These new offices — at a cost of $355,000 (425,000 taels) — were the most expensive U.S. embassy or consulate in the world at that time.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
The first American Consulate in Wuhan was opened in April 1861, one month after Hankow became one of China's treaty ports. The old consulate built in 1905 was previously JK Panoff's Residence, located on the corner of the Bund with Station Road in the Hankow Russian Concession. It is a red baroque-style keep in brick and concrete structure.
Similar gestures were done in China in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang, along with the U.S. embassy in Beijing. [1] The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau, represents the United States in Hong Kong and Macau. [2] It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, since the late 1950s ...
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At the time, the United States had several other Consulates in Northeast China, including in Harbin and Dalian. [ citation needed ] These appear to have been closed by World War II. The Shenyang Consulate operated for most of the war and closed in 1949 after the new Chinese Communist Party authorities had imprisoned the remaining consulate ...