Great Hall Of The People

The Great Hall of the building from the 1959 founding of the People 's Republic of China to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Communist Party of China Central People's Government, the State Council decided to build ten buildings, to show the achievements of decades of construction. These buildings to pursue the art of architecture and urban planning, and coordination of human environment. Great Hall of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the capital of one of the top ten architectural, entirely by Chinese engineers and technicians to design, construction, start in October 1958 and completed in September 1959, just over 10 months of time built up. Created a major undertaking in the history of Chinese architecture. Great Hall of the focus was all over the country's building materials, Beijing Tours construction workers to work overtime for the construction of only 10 months to complete from the drawing board to all the furnishings and equipment from the inside out installation and commissioning.

Great Hall of the spectacular towering building the plane was a "mountain" shape, the two wings is slightly lower, the central slightly, surrounded by open the door. The appearance is pale yellow granite, green and yellow glazed tile roof on the five-meter-high granite base, the next ring out around 134 tall round pillars. The main entrance of the Great Hall of the face of the Tiananmen Square, the People's Republic of China national emblem inlaid in the amount of the main entrance gate, Beijing Xingang Port Tour main entrance face of twelve light gray marble post is the post diameter of 2 meters, 25 meters high. Surrounded in front of a five-meter-high granite steps. Great Hall of the architectural style of the majestic, magnificent and elegant, full of national characteristics, and four weeks of structured architecture, constitute a solemn and beautiful picture of a Tiananmen Square as a whole. Internal facilities, sound, light, temperature control and automatic fire alarm, fire fighting and other modern facilities. Great Hall of the building is composed of three parts: the door is a simple and elegant central hall (only hall seats). Hall after 76 meters wide and 60 meters deep million City Hall; field north wing of the General Assembly is a 5,000-seat Grand Ballroom; southern wing of the office of the NPC Standing Committee. Hall named to the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions name, full of the hall of the local characteristics.

Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage December 19, 2007 Great Hall of the building has been approved by the Beijing Municipal Government included in the "Beijing excellent modern building protection list (the first).