1. The historical evolution of the Beijing Exhibition Hall (1952-1954) In 1952, Comrade Li Fuchun, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the Government Affairs Council, visited the Soviet Union. During negotiations with the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union proposed to display the Soviet Union’s construction achievements in China, including economy, culture, and science.
Technology, construction technology and architectural art, etc.
To this end, the central government decided to build Soviet exhibition halls in Beijing and Shanghai to learn from the Soviet Union’s experience in socialist construction.
The Soviet Union sent construction experts to our country to help with design and construction.
Our country established a three-person leadership group, with Peng Zhen as the leader. Comrade Zhao Pengfei, then deputy director of the Financial and Economic Commission of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, was entrusted by Comrade Peng Zhen to specifically participate in the construction of the exhibition hall.
In the spring of 1953, Xue Zizheng, Secretary-General of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, Wang Rongzhang, Secretary-General of the Beijing Municipal Government, and Cultural Counselor of the Soviet Ambassador to China inspected the geographical environment in urban Beijing and selected the location for the establishment of the museum.
According to Beijing's urban construction plan at that time, which planned to build the western suburbs into a cultural, scientific and technological, and tourist area, with the unanimous consent of both China and the Soviet Union and the approval of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the location of the museum was determined to be outside Xizhimen in the western suburbs.
In 1953, the Central Ministry of Finance invested 27 million yuan (including the construction of Xiyuan Hotel and Xijiao Shopping Mall).
The project cost 24 million yuan.
First Born (1954) On October 15, 1953, a grand groundbreaking ceremony was held at the construction site of the museum. Relevant leading comrades from the Central People’s Communist Party and the Beijing Municipal People’s Communist Party, as well as workers and cadres who participated in the construction of the museum, attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
ceremony.
Officials from the Soviet Embassy in China were also invited to participate.
Beijing Mayor Peng Zhen delivered a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony.
After the ceremony, Mayor Peng Zhen broke ground and laid the foundation stone. The construction project of the Beijing Soviet Exhibition Hall officially started.
During the construction process, Premier Zhou ordered all provinces and cities across the country to support the construction of the exhibition hall. At that time, more than 20 provinces and cities in my country provided strong support in terms of manpower and material resources for the construction of the exhibition hall.
More than 10,000 construction workers and more than 6,000 *** fighters worked day and night on the construction site. After a year of hard work, the construction was completed in September 1954.
At that time, the entire exhibition hall covered an area of ??approximately 132,000 square meters, with the main buildings covering an area of ??88,500 square meters and a construction area of ??50,400 square meters.
The main building is centered on the central hall, and is equipped with a theater, restaurant, movie theater, and a dedicated railway branch line.
The upper part of the front door of the central hall is inlaid with five large gold-plated characters "Soviet Exhibition Hall" inscribed by Chairman Mao Zedong himself.
Growth (1954 - 1984) From October 2 to December 26, 1954, the "Exhibition of Achievements in Economic and Cultural Construction of the Soviet Union" was held in the newly completed Soviet Exhibition Hall. In April 1955 and October 1956, one after another
The "Exhibition on the Achievements of Socialist Construction in Czechoslovakia in the Ten Years" and the "Japanese Commodity Exhibition" were held here.
In 1958, according to the opinions of Premier Zhou Enlai, the Soviet Exhibition Hall was renamed the Beijing Exhibition Hall.
During this period, the Beijing Exhibition Hall was an administrative institution. With the development of my country's socialist economic construction, the Beijing Exhibition Hall became a place where dozens of countries and regions from five continents and our country held various exhibitions and exchange activities. It has played a positive role in promoting domestic and foreign economic, cultural, and scientific and technological exchanges, developing my country's economic and trade relations, and enhancing the friendship between our people and people from all over the world.
Growth (1984 - 1997) With the advancement of national economic reform, Beijing Exhibition Center completed the transformation from a public institution to an enterprise unit. In 1984, the Beijing Exhibition Center Exhibition Service Company was established and completed the application for a corporate legal person license, marking the exhibition hall
It has fully entered corporate management. Subsequently, the Beijing Exhibition Center developed at an even faster pace, building and developing joint venture hotels, Star Lake Hotel, Capital Advertising Art Company, Moscow Restaurant Food Factory, Cold Drinks Factory, Travel Agency and Labor Service Company, etc.
In 1990, the 11th Asian Games was held in Beijing, China. At the same time, the Beijing Exhibition Hall served as the Asian Games shopping mall to receive athletes from all over the world and friendly people from all walks of life who came to Beijing to participate in the competition.
The shopping center covers an area of ??40,000 square meters and houses more than 22 million kinds of famous, special, high-quality, new and fine products from 30 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and some trading companies in Taiwan as well as foreign-invested enterprises.
There are product exhibition halls, tables, coffee houses, beer houses, etc. inside the museum. There is a food street outside the museum, and there are also theatrical performances in the Beizhan Theater, which is an unprecedented event.
The shopping mall lasted 40 days and received 1.6 million visitors.
New Life (1998-2000) On February 28, 1998, Beijing Capital Tourism Group Co., Ltd. was officially established.
As a wholly state-owned enterprise affiliated to the Group Company, Beijing Exhibition Center has taken a new step in development.
At the end of 1998, in order to meet the needs of hosting the 50th Anniversary Achievements Exhibition of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, the Beijing Exhibition Center carried out its first large-scale venue renovation, capping the original east and west outdoor venues and converting them into indoor venues.