1. The U.S. Consulate has set up different departments according to different fields, such as political department, economic department, visa department, news and culture department, agriculture and trade department, and commerce department. The daily work of the US Consulate General in Chengdu is the work of these departments, aiming at establishing friendly relations in the southwest of China as far as possible, promoting US-China business relations, educational and cultural exchanges, and agricultural cooperation, and jointly solving the problems affecting the southwest of the United States and China.

2. The American Consulate General in Chengdu was established by the United States in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, and opened on June 1985 10 16. Consular regions include Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Xizang Autonomous Region and Chongqing.

3. On July 24th, 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China informed the US Embassy in China that China had decided to revoke the establishment and operation license of the US Consulate General in Chengdu, and put forward specific requirements for the Consulate General to stop all business and activities. On the morning of July 27th 10, at the request of the Chinese side, the US Consulate General in Chengdu was closed.

4. The development history of the American Consulate General in Chengdu

The US Consulate General in Chengdu was established in 1985, and its first office was located on the first floor of Jinjiang Hotel. Initially, the consulate had only six American officials and about 29 local employees. At that time, the consulate had only one administrative office (a consul general and an administrative assistant), a small office dealing with political, economic and commercial affairs, a consular office, a logistics office and a news and cultural office.

1985, an American official is in charge of every office. Compared with that year, today's consulate has grown to the scale of more than 200 employees, of which about 150 are China employees employed locally, which is the main force in our daily work, and many of them have worked in the consulate for many years.

Americans work here for a relatively short time, usually two to three years. They are all professional diplomats in the foreign affairs department of the United States, asking to work in Chengdu. More and more American officials can speak Chinese, which also reflects the general trend of the whole world and the most important bilateral relations in the world mentioned by the US government.