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Guiyang International Conference and Exhibition Center stands at 1 Changling North Road in Guanshanhu District, beside the municipal administrative centre and Guanshanhu Park. It is the city's front door for trade and investment and the most complete exhibition and conference complex in Guizhou. Zhongtian Urban Development Group invested in, built and operates the project; it was completed at the end of 2010 and opened in early 2011. The estate totals 1 million sqm of floor area and is deliberately mixed-use. The exhibition centre, an international eco conference centre, the Zhongtian Hyatt hotel, the Zhongtian 201 tower, creative SOHO units, a food street and underground parking all sit inside one cluster, so a show can be staged, hosted and accommodated without leaving the site. The exhibition centre accounts for 280,000 sqm of that, with 120,000 sqm usable for exhibitions. It is arranged as eight halls, a single registration hall and a 40,000 sqm outdoor plaza, and can be laid out for 6,000 standard booths. The conference centre exceeds 40,000 sqm and holds a 3,500-seat plenary hall, a 3,000-seat banquet hall and a 500-seat international conference hall, which is why it can hold a trade fair and a summit at the same time. That is how it is used in practice: the China International Big Data Industry Expo, the world's first expo devoted to big data, has run here since 2015, alongside the Eco Forum Global Guiyang and the Guizhou liquor fair. Architecturally the complex is less a single object than a green-technology testbed, assembled by a group of international design teams and green-building consultants rather than one hand; the halls, the conference block, the hotel and the office tower stand as separate volumes on one estate, with the 40,000 sqm outdoor plaza between them. Energy-saving, water-recycling and low-carbon systems were written into the design from the start, and in July 2012 the project received LEED-NC Platinum, the only rating of its kind in southwest China at the time. Transport is straightforward. Lincheng East and Guanshan East roads link the district to the old city and the Guizun expressway, and Metro Line 1 stops at International Eco Conference Center station, opened in December 2017, at the northeast corner of the site. Guiyang North Railway Station is about 8 km away and Longdongbao International Airport about 25 km.