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The Hongdao International Conference and Exhibition Center occupies a 488,000 sqm site at 326 Huoju Road in the Hongdao high-tech zone of Chengyang District, Qingdao, making it the largest exhibition complex in Shandong. It is the newer half of the city's two-venue arrangement: the older Laoshan hall by the coast still runs, and the two are worked as a pair. Designed jointly by the China Academy of Building Research and Germany's gmp, it was built in 22 months for about RMB 6.7 billion and opened on 15 May 2019, operated by Qingdao Guoxin Hongdao International Conference and Exhibition Center Co. The brief was what the Chinese industry calls a fifth-generation complex — exhibition, conference, hotel, office and retail under one roof rather than halls with offices next door. The building runs 17 storeys above ground and three below, with hotel towers at its north and south ends. The plan is a symmetrical H. A 40 m high entrance hall sits on the north-south axis under a 93 m span tensile membrane and naturally lit glazing, and the exhibition wings run east and west from it. The west wing holds four single-storey halls with 18 m clear height and no columns, which is what large plant and equipment needs; the east wing stacks ten halls over two levels, five with columns at ground floor and a column-free upper deck. That double-deck section has its own first-floor loading and separate logistics and visitor routes, so an articulated lorry and a delegate group never meet. In total there are 14 halls and 140,000 sqm of exhibition space. Access runs through the Jiaozhou Bay expressway, Huanwan Avenue and Huoju Road, about 30 km from Jiaodong International Airport and 20 km from Qingdao North Railway Station, with parking on site. The airport distance is the weak point: this is a suburban site and visitors should plan on road transfer rather than rail.