The Chinese Embassy in Australia is located in Canberra's scenic suburb of Yarralumla, adjacent to Lake Burley Griffin on the north, and the new parliament house on the south.

The chancellery, occupying a site of 21,628 square meters, consists of the Office Building, the Ambassador's Residence, the Staff Quarters, and the Garage, which provide a total building area of 7,000 square meters. It also has a swimming pool, a tennis court, a green house and other facilities.

Amidst the Office Building, the Ambassador's Residence and Staff Quarters lies a garden of the southern Chinese style, It embraces an ornamental lake, a covered corridor, a waterside pavilion, a hexangular pavilion, a zig-zag bridge and rockeries. Inside the Office Building and the Ambassador's Residence, there is respectively one inner garden with an ornamental pond, stalagmite-shaped rocks and artistically piled stones.

As a customary Chinese practice, a pair of white-marble lions are placed in front of the Office Building. The entrance lobbies, reception and multi-function rooms in the Office Building and the Ambassador's Residence are all fitted out in the traditional Chinese manner with special plaster-patternizing, colour-painting, gilding and traditional wooden carving technique. The function room in the Ambassador's Residence is adorned with cracked ice-shaped, latticed windows and screens with etched glass panels. Brocade is used for the wall surfaces of these rooms. Traditional Chinese golden-coloured glazed tiles are used for the roofs of most buildings whilst peacock blue-colored glazed tiles are used for that of the covered corridor and the pavilions so that the tiles of two colours shine distinctively, yet harmoniously in the sun.

Many of the building materials used were imported from China. The peculiar rocks for the rockeries came form Lake Cao of Anhui Province, the brocade used for the wall surfaces from Hangzhou, ZhejiangProvince, and the glazed roof tiles formYixing, Jiangsu Province.

China Guangzhou Architectural Design Institute drafted the designing of the whole, which was finalized by Wulu & Partners of Hong Kong. The Leighton Contractors Pty.Ltd. of Australia carried out the main structural and building work. Artisans from Shanghai, China, Built the gardens and performed the work of stone masonry, ceramic roof tiling, and the interior fitting out of the major then rooms in the chancellery. The construction commenced in December 1988, following he foundation stone laying ceremony presided over by Chinese Premier Li Peng on November 18th, 1988,and was completed in July 1990.

The Chinese Embassy in Australia not only reveals to the friends from Australia and all parts of the world the traditional Chinese architecture, but also has become another unique tourist attraction for Canberra.