| Embassy of the United States, Beijing | |
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| Location | Beijing, China |
| Address | 55 Anjialou Road,Chaoyang, Beijing |
| Coordinates | 39°9′53″N116°4′59″E / 39.16472°N 116.08306°E /39.16472; 116.08306 |
| Ambassador | David Perdue |
| Jurisdiction |  China |
| Website | Official website |
TheEmbassy of the United States in Beijing is thediplomatic mission of theUnited States inChina. It serves as the administrative office of theUnited States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is inChaoyang,Beijing.[1]
In addition to Beijing, it covers the municipalities ofTianjin andChongqing and the provinces ofGansu,Guizhou,Hebei,Henan,Hubei,Hunan,Inner Mongolia,Jiangxi,Ningxia,Qinghai,Shanxi,Shaanxi,Shandong,Sichuan,Tibet,Xinjiang, andYunnan.[2]
The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, byU.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush[3] and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after theEmbassy of the United States, Baghdad and theEmbassy of the United States, Yerevan. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was upgraded into the embassy inNanjing. However, thecentral government of thenationalistswas relocated toTaipei in 1949 due to theChinese Civil War andthe embassy was reopened in 1953. On January 1, 1979, the embassy was transferred to Beijing after normalizing relations with thecommunist government on the mainland.[4]
The 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2), eight story facility incorporates a great deal of free-standing transparent and opaque glass in its design. It is located on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot of land. The embassy warehouse is located in the Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone inShunyi District.[5]
Since the embassy is legally out of reach of theGovernment of China, it was used as the hiding place of Chinese dissidentChen Guangcheng after he escaped fromhouse arrest.[6]
| Name | Portrait | Start of term | End of term |
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| J. Stapleton Roy |  | 1979 | 1981[7][8] |
| Chas W. Freeman, Jr. |  | 1981 | 1984[9] |
| Herbert E. Horowitz |  | 1984 | 1986[10] |
| Peter Tomsen |  | 1986 | 1989[11] |
| Raymond Burghardt (acting) |  | 1989 | 1989[12][13] |
| B. Lynn Pascoe |  | 1989[12] | 1992[a] |
| Scott S. Hallford | 1992[a] | 1996[16] | |
| William C. McCahill, Jr. | 1996 | 1999 | |
| G. Eugene Martin | 1999 | 2000[17] | |
| Michael W. Marine |  | September 2000 | June 2004[18] |
| David S. Sedney |  | 2004 | 2007[19] |
| Dan Piccuta | May 2007[20] | January 2009 | |
| William Weinstein (Acting) | January 2009[21] | July 2009[22]: 74 | |
| Robert Goldberg | July 2009[22]: 74 | 2011[22]: 5 | |
| Robert S. Wang | .png) | January 2011 | August 2013[23] |
| Daniel Kritenbrink |  | July 2013 | 2015[24] |
| David H. Rank | January 2016[25] | January 2017 | |
| Julie L. Kavanagh (Acting) | January 2017[26][27] | June 2017[26] | |
| Jonathan Fritz (Acting) |  | June 2017[28] | 2018 |
| Robert W. Forden | .jpg) | July 2018 | October 2020[29] |
| William Klein (Acting) |  | October 2020[30] | October 2021 |
| Bobby Richey (Acting) |  | October 2021[31] | |
| Gregory May |  | July 2025[32] |
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