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Embassy of the United Kingdom, Beijing

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British Embassy, Beijing
The Embassy building in Beijing
Map
LocationChina Beijing, China
Address11 Guang Hua Lu,
Jian Guo Men Wai,
100600 Beijing,
China
Coordinates39°54′45″N 116°26′32″E / 39.9124°N 116.4423°E / 39.9124; 116.4423
AmbassadorCaroline Wilson
WebsiteBritish Embassy, Beijing

The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Beijing (or British Embassy, Beijing) is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the People's Republic of China. It is one of Britain's largest overseas embassies.[1] It is located at 11 Guanghua Road, in the Chaoyang District. The current British Ambassador to China is Caroline Wilson.[2]

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History

The old British legation was established on 26 March 1861 in the former palace of Duke I-liang and Sir Frederick Bruce became the first “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary” to Imperial China to reside in Beijing.[3] Considering the place substandard, work began to find a replacement, and the legation was moved to "Leang-Koong-foo" (the Duke of Leang's palace) in 1866, where it would stay until 1959.[4][5]

In 1959 the Chinese authorities required the British to vacate their location as they wanted to redevelop the land for use as the Supreme People's Court. In January 1959 the British were informed that "the centre of Peking was scheduled for reconstruction and that the area occupied by the British Legation was required for the site of a large new building for the Judicial Executive. The staff of the Legation was therefore requested to move out of their quarters by May 31st 1959”.[6] In exchange for vacating their old premises in 1959, the Chinese authorities built and offered the British their current embassy and residence in the diplomatic district. The embassy consists of two two-storey houses set in walled gardens.[6] Another reason was that the building was symbolic of the unequal treaties and the century of humiliation for many Chinese, so shifting to a new one would help shed that historical baggage.[7]

During the Cultural Revolution and at the tail-end of the 1967 Hong Kong riots, the Red Guards stormed the premises, looted the Office of British Chargé d'Affaires (predecessor body of embassy) and burnt it on 23 August.[8]

Other locations

The consular section is now too large to be accommodated in the embassy building (referred to locally as the 'main building'). It is now housed at the Kerry Centre, 1 kilometer away. Visa applications are handled at a centre shared with Ireland at Chaoyangmen.

Outside Beijing, there are also British consulates general in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing and Shanghai where the senior officer is known as the consul-general.[2] There is also a British consulate-general in Hong Kong (the largest British consulate-general in the world), responsible for maintaining British ties with Hong Kong[9] and Macao.[10] However, due to Hong Kong's unique status, the consul-general reports directly to the China Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, instead of going through the British ambassador in Beijing.[11]

The Embassy also represents the British Overseas Territories in China.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Our embassy". Government Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b "British Embassy Beijing". FCO.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. ^ Cranmer-Byng 1963, p. 60.
  4. ^ Cranmer-Byng 1963, p. 65.
  5. ^ Huang, Hsin-Yin (April 2010). Going native : British diplomatic, judicial and consular architecture in China (1867-1949) (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy). University of Sheffield.
  6. ^ a b "The Embassy and milestones". Government Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  7. ^ Cranmer-Byng 1963, p. 87.
  8. ^ Fairbank, John King; Goldman, Merle (2006). China: A New History, Enlarged Edition. Harvard University Press. p. 396. ISBN 978-0-674-01828-0.
  9. ^ UK in Hong Kong - the British Consulate-General Hong Kong and Macao
  10. ^ UK in Macao
  11. ^ The UK's relations with Hong Kong: 30 years after the Joint Declaration, Tenth Report of Session 2014–15, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, House of Commons, 6 Mar 2015, page 16 PDF

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