青岛国际博览中心

Qingdao International Expo Center is at 7-1 Wenquan Second Road, Wenquan Subdistrict, Jimo District, Qingdao, Shandong, facing Aoshan Bay and connected to the Binhai Avenue coastal road. Invested with RMB 2 billion by Qingdao Changji Real Estate under the Nanshan Group and designed by the American firm NBBJ, it broke ground in December 2009 and was completed in January 2011. At completion public materials described it as the largest international exhibition centre in northern China and the third largest on the mainland. The complex has about 220,000 sqm of floor area and 180,000 sqm of total exhibition space: roughly 120,000 sqm indoors, 60,000 sqm of outdoor yard and 40,000 sqm of supporting functions, enough for more than 6,000 standard booths. It is divided into zones A, B, C and the standard halls, with two registration halls of 20,000 and 10,000 sqm, ten single-storey column-free standard halls and a 13,000 sqm multifunction hall. Each standard hall has about 12,000 sqm of floor area and nearly 10,000 sqm of net exhibition space, a clear height of 12–18 m and a 50 kN/sqm floor load, holding 504 booths. The registration halls are the architectural signature, combining registration, reception, business, dining and meeting functions. Metro Line 11 (Langu Express) has an Expo Center station serving the site; the drive to the city centre is about 50 km along Binhai Avenue, and four- and five-star hotels and hot-spring resorts cluster nearby.