U.S. Consulate in Chengdu

The Consulate General of the United States, Chengdu (simplified Chinese: 美国驻成都总领事馆; traditional Chinese: 美國駐成都總領事館; pinyin: Měiguó zhù Chéngdū Zǒnglǐngshìguǎn) is a diplomatic mission in Wuhou District, Chengdu.

This is one of seven American diplomatic and consular posts in China. The consular district includes the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the prefecture-level city of Chongqing.

On 6 February 2012, the Consulate General was the scene of the Wang Lijun incident.

The consulate was opened by Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1985 in an annex of the Jinjiang Hotel. The consulate moved in 1993 to its own compound at #4, Lingshiguan Lu, where it remains.

In 1993, the Peace Corps began a program in China, headquartered in Chengdu. A Peace Corps Director and staff were posted in the city. From its beginning, the primary mission of Peace Corps China has been to assist in the training of young Chinese to become English teachers in the rapidly increasing number of junior high schools of the area, specifically in the relatively undeveloped provinces of Gansu, Guizhou, and Sichuan as well as the municipality of Chongqing. There were eighteen teachers in the first group of Peace Corps China Volunteers, and they served in five teacher training institutions. Now, twenty years later, there are about 150 Volunteers teaching in 90 institutions.

The consulate compound came under attack in May 1999 by crowds enraged by the US accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The Consul General’s Residence was heavily damaged by fire.

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