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Jinan Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center sits in the Cuizhai cluster of the city's New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Start Zone, on the north bank of the Yellow River. It took Jinan's exhibition industry across the river, as one of the first large public buildings to open in the start zone and the anchor around which industry and urban functions are gathering on the north side. France's VP Architecture won the design competition in 2020 and Phase 1 opened in November 2023, when the China (Jinan) International Machine Tool and Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Expo brought more than 500 exhibitors into the halls. The masterplan runs west to east through three blocks — exhibition centre, conference centre and hotel centre — and takes the Yellow River scroll painting as its organising image: long curved roofs, with the conference centre reading as a bridge laid across the scroll. Later phases are still being built out. On completion the total floor area will be about 1.2 million sqm with net exhibition space of 510,000 sqm, which would place it among the largest exhibition centres in the world on that measure; Phase 1 alone is 373,000 sqm. What Phase 1 already delivers is heavy-industry capability. Twelve standard halls, a large N1 hall and a registration hall give roughly 150,000 sqm of indoor exhibition space, all single-storey and large-span with no internal columns, and a floor load rating of 5 tonnes per sqm. That is the specification machine tools, industrial equipment and intelligent manufacturing shows need, and the halls can be subdivided when a smaller event takes only part of the building. Road access is the easy part. The site adjoins the Beijing-Shanghai expressway and the Jinan ring expressway, about 20 km from Jinan East Railway Station and 25 km from Yaoqiang International Airport. Streets and rail links inside the start zone are still filling in, so for now most visitors arrive by car or coach.