The modern Nanyuan Hotel is the location of Chiang Kai-shek's villa in Suzhou, Jiang Mansion and He Yanong's garden villa (his second daughter and son-in-law are famous physicists He He and Qian Sanqiang). Chiang Kai-shek's second wife Yao Yecheng and her youngest son Jiang Weiguo once lived here. 1952, Nanyuan Hotel became the reception and accommodation place for national party and government leaders, foreign heads and celebrities who came to the Soviet Union, and began to embark on the glorious course of Suzhou State Guesthouse.