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Wuhan International Expo Center occupies the riverside Si Xin cluster in Hanyang District, bordering the Yangtze floodplain to the east and the Third Ring Road to the south. It is the largest exhibition complex in central China and a core project of Wuhan's new district. Construction began in December 2006 on a 1.58 sq km site with about 2.4 million sqm of total floor area and investment of roughly RMB 7.83 billion, organised west to east into exhibition, conference and hotel zones; the Phase 1 halls total about 470,000 sqm of floor area at a cost of some RMB 2 billion. Indoor exhibition space is 126,000 sqm across 12 halls, A1 to A6 and B1 to B6, each about 72 by 117 m, with four freight doors of which two are 7 m high and two 4.5 m, allowing large equipment access. Evenly sized halls can be combined as a whole, supported by an InterContinental hotel, conference centre and retail. A continuous curved roof runs along the river. The site connects via Yingwu Avenue, the Third Ring Road and Yangsigang Yangtze Bridge, about 25 km from Wuhan Railway Station and 35 km from Tianhe Airport, with Metro Line 6 nearby.