Founding ceremony that night, Beijing Hotel hosted the first state banquet of New China. Founding ceremony that night, more than 600 people attended the first state banquet in China, with more than 60 tables. This banquet was later called "the first banquet for the founding of the People's Republic of China".
When the French were running the old red brick Beijing Hotel, in 19 17, a seven-story French building was built on the west side of the red brick building, and a large western restaurant with 300 to 400 people was built on the north side of the first floor, in which a large dance floor with 200 to 300 people was built in front of the western restaurant.
There are soft springs under the wooden floor of the dance floor. When people dance, the wooden floor will vibrate gently without hurting people's feet. There is also a big lobby to the east of the dance floor, which can also accommodate 200 to 300 people to rest. If there are thousands of people attending a large banquet, you can open the door of the western restaurant.
When the state banquet was first built:
Beijing Hotel, founded in 1900, is the "Olympic Family Headquarters Hotel" of the 29th Olympic Games in 2008, and has been awarded the "Five-Star Diamond Award" by American Quality Service Association for many years.
Beijing Hotel is located in East Chang 'an Avenue, adjacent to Wangfujing in the east and Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in the west. After a century of baptism, it has always been the highest-level hotel in Beijing. In the dual mission of carrying the hotel's functionality and special political identity, it witnessed the changes of the times.
The central, western and eastern buildings of the hotel were built in the early 20th century, 1950s and 1970s respectively. Architecture is the first choice for important state affairs and conferences, combining Chinese and western styles, and classical architecture and modern architectural styles complement each other.
The hotel has nearly 600 rooms of different specifications; Operating unique Huaiyang cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Tan Jiacai, western food and Japanese cuisine; There are conference halls with different specifications and advanced communication systems.
The Grand Ballroom has 12 simultaneous interpretation equipment and various projection and audio-visual equipment, and can hold high-end international conferences, banquets, large-scale performances, press conferences, fashion shows, exhibitions and so on.