中国国际展览中心（朝阳馆）

The China International Exhibition Center's Chaoyang venue occupies 15 hectares at 6 North Third Ring Road East, Jing'anzhuang, in Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is the founding address of the China International Exhibition Center and the first large purpose-built exhibition hall approved by the state after 1949, completed in October 1985, listed among Beijing's top ten buildings of the 1980s, and generally treated as the point where China's modern exhibition industry begins. Its opening event, the Asia-Pacific International Trade Fair, set the pattern for three decades of national trade fairs and international exhibitions, and the venue has carried that role ever since. It belongs to the China International Exhibition Center Group, under the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. The Beijing Institute of Architectural Design laid it out on a compact plan that predates the standards now applied to new halls. Eight halls hold about 60,000 sqm of indoor exhibition space and a further 7,000 sqm outdoors, with a 16,000 sqm car park. Hall 1, the main building, is the largest single structure on site at more than 50,000 sqm of gross floor area — a figure covering the whole building rather than stand space alone — and ranks among the biggest of China's older exhibition buildings. Three structural systems coexist — space frame, reinforced concrete and steel — a record of how the site was added to over time. Hall 1's square massing and central courtyard set the tone, and the annexes wrap around it: Halls 2 to 5 run together along the Third Ring, Halls 6 and 7 are joined on the north-west side, and Hall 8 stands alone to the south-west. That tight plan is the practical advantage. Walking distances are short, halls connect without going outside, and the whole site can be worked in a day, which is why it still suits consumer goods, gifts, light industry and specialist trade fairs rather than the capital-goods shows that moved to Shunyi. Transport is unusually good for a venue of this age: the North Third Ring Road and the Jingcheng expressway are at the gate, Sanyuanqiao on Metro Line 10 and Guangximen on Line 13 are within walking distance, and Capital Airport is about 20 km away.