Since the establishment, the People's Republic of China has worked vigorously to win international support for its position that it is the sole legitimate government of all China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. So far until the March 2008, the number of countries that had diplomatic relations with Beijing had risen to 171, while 23 maintained diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
The capital city of China - Beijing, holds the embassies of foreign countries. While other big Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu and Shenyang have consulates of many foreign countries and regions. At the same time, China also set up its embassies and consulates in the countries or regions with which it has the diplomatic relations. Our column of "Embassies and Consulates" takes the honor to provide you the information on two aspects: 1) the general situation of the bilateral relations between China and foreign countries; 2) the contact info about foreign embassies and consulates in China and Chinese embassies and consulates in foreign countries, which includes the address / telephone / fax / E-mail / website...