Chinese Australians
As a whole, Australian residents identifying themselves as having Chinese ancestry made up 5.6% of those nominating their ancestry at the 2016 census and numbered 1,213,903. At the 2016 census, 509,555 people declared that they were born in Mainland China, 86,886 declared that they were born in Hong Kong, while 46,882 declared that they were born in Taiwan. There are also a large number of persons of Chinese ancestry among those born in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
List of ambassadors of Australia to China
After diplomatic recognition of the PRC in 1972, Australia established an Embassy in Beijing in 1973, followed by Consulates-General in Shanghai (1984), Guangzhou (1992) and Chengdu (2013). The latter was opened following release of the "Asian Century White Paper" by the Gillard government, and calls for an expanded diplomatic footprint in China. On 9 November 2014, then-Foreign Affairs Minister, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, formally opened the Australian Consulate-General in Chengdu. In March 2017, an agreement was signed to establish a fifth Australian Consulate-General in 2018, to be located in the northern city of Shenyang.