Jingxi Hotel

Jingxi Hotel
Traditional Chinese 京西賓館
Simplified Chinese 京西宾馆

The Jingxi Hotel is a hotel located in the Haidian District of Beijing, China,[1] located near the Military Museum and Defense Ministry and run by the General Staff Department of the People’s Liberation Army.[2] The hotel is heavily guarded and closed to foreigners.[3]

Built in 1959 for the 10th anniversary of the People’s Republic, the hotel soon became a place for top-level meetings.[2]

It has been the venue of plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,[4] and has witnessed historical events, such as the decision to crack down on the Gang of Four,[1] as well as a meeting held less than three weeks after the military crushed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, where the Central Committee affirmed that the party had “achieved a decisive victory in stopping the unrest and quelling the counter-revolutionary rebellion.”[2]

Other important meetings to have taken place here include the pivotal 3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee in 1978, when China embarked on economic reforms, and the 3rd and 4th Plenums of the 18th Central Committee under the auspices of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

The closest subway station is Military Museum Station, on Line 1 and Line 9 of the Beijing Subway.

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References

  1. 1 2 "The truth about Beijing's Jingxi Hotel's corridors of party power". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Chinese Leaders Want a Secure Place of Their Own". WSJ. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Chinese Communist Party meeting puts Xi in the spotlight". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Communist Party plenum: Behind closed doors". The Economist. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.

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Coordinates: 39°54′21″N 116°19′08″E / 39.9059°N 116.3188°E / 39.9059; 116.3188

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