Embassy of China, Berlin

The Chinese Embassy in Berlin, officially the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Federal Republic of Germany (Chinese: 中华人民共和国驻德意志联邦共和国大使馆) is the head of the diplomatic mission of the People's Republic of China in Germany. There has been diplomatic mission of China in Berlin since 1877. The current embassy is located at Märkisches Ufer 54 near the Jannowitz Bridge in Luisenstadt in Berlin-Mitte. The seven-storey building, built in 1988 as the FDGB headquarter, was rebuilt from 1999 to 2001 to the present-day embassy.

Embassy of China in Berlin
Chinese embassy building at the Jannowitz Bridge
Shortwave antenna on the embassy building, January 2009

Embassy of the PRC in the united Germany

The building complex near the Jannowitz Bridge, in use since 1999, was built in 1988 after the plans of Jens Ebert for 182 million marks and was the new seat of the Federal Board of FDGB ("House of Unions"). After Die Wende, it was rebuilt to a convention center ("Berliner Congress Center - BCC"), but soon went out of service. As a result of the Capital Decision in 1991, the Chinese Embassy (in the former West Germany) moved in 1999 from Bonn to Berlin. Both Chinese embassies merged and acquired the convention center. The conversion was carried out according to plans of Novotny Mähner Associated. The building has a silver exterior, decorated with mirrored windows. There is a sculpture of a Chinese guardian lion on the portal.

The Chinese Embassy consists of the following areas:[1]

  • Consular department
  • Political department
  • Department of Press and Public Relations
  • Military department
  • Culture department
  • Department of Science and Technology
  • Department of Economic and Commercial
  • Education Department.

Since August 2012 the ambassador is Shi Mingde; his predecessor was Wu Hongbo. There are Consulates General in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Munich.

See also
  • List of Chinese Ambassadors in Germany
  • Embassy of China, Bonn

References
  1. "Botschaft und Generalkonsulate der Volksrepublik China in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland". china-botschaft.de. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
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