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Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center is located at 198 Huizhan Road, Siming District, on the north side of Huandao Road along Xiamen Island's southeast coast, facing Little Kinmen across roughly 4,600 metres of sea. It is the core asset of the city's exhibition industry and one of its landmark buildings. Construction began on 1 October 1998 and the first phase opened on 8 September 2000, followed by successive expansions up to a fifth phase; phase one cost RMB 1.17 billion and provided 165,000 square metres of floor area with five indoor halls totalling 33,000 square metres, and when completed it was the largest-footprint, highest-clearance and largest single-volume exhibition venue in China. In July 2023 the fifth-phase Hall D was completed, covering about 30,000 square metres of land with more than 70,000 square metres of floor area, nearly 15,000 square metres of exhibition space and some 10,000 square metres of conference space whose rooms can be divided into 18 separate meeting rooms, lifting total exhibition space above 200,000 square metres. The main complex now has 23 halls with about 200,000 square metres in total, 8,200 international standard booths, plus a multipurpose hall, an international conference hall and 74 meeting and VIP rooms. It is the main venue of the China International Fair for Investment and Trade and hosted the 2017 BRICS leaders' summit. The architecture suggests a roc spreading its wings or a great ship setting sail, with each phase aligned on the same axis; the fifth phase draws on southern Fujian building traditions, its vertical aluminium panels and glass curtain wall alternating like piano keys.