Can I keep my China citizenship with a green card?

If you get a green card in the United States, you are still a citizen of China.

American citizenship and immigration law, green card holders belong to foreigners who have neither American citizenship nor American citizenship. China citizens can only lose their China citizenship if their application for renunciation of China citizenship is approved. The U.S. green card only allows the U.S. government to live in the United States for a long time, but it has not obtained U.S. citizenship, so it still has People's Republic of China (PRC) citizenship. As long as foreign nationality is acquired, China nationality will be automatically revoked.

Original nationality and inherited nationality:

Original nationality, also known as natural nationality, refers to the first nationality a person has in his life. Therefore, a person is usually given nationality by a country at birth, unless he is stateless at birth because of the so-called negative conflict of nationality, although sometimes this nationality can only be proved later. Original nationality is different from inherited nationality or acquired nationality. The latter means that a person is granted nationality by the state based on facts unrelated to birth, such as applying for naturalization, marrying a foreigner, choosing nationality, adopting, obtaining quasi-legal status, and territorial transfer. A person has acquired the original nationality before acquiring the inherited nationality, so the original nationality has the nature of creation, and the inherited nationality has the nature of continuation, which means the change of nationality. Of course, due to the inconsistency of nationality laws in different countries, sometimes a person obtains the following nationality, but still does not lose his original nationality. In this way, there is a situation of dual or multiple nationality.

To sum it up. Have an American green card or China nationality.

Legal basis:

Article 11 of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China

If the application for renunciation of China nationality is approved, China nationality will be lost.