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New Exhibition Center Destined for Shunyi

Beijing's existing China International Exhibition Center (CIEC) is failing to keep pace with the rapid development of the city's exhibition industry, resulting in the building by 2006 of a new alternative in Shunyi District.

The biggest exhibition venue in Beijing, CIEC was built in 1985 with a 60,000sq.m indoor area and 7,000sq.m outdoors. Currently, it needs to stage an exhibition every three days to keep pace with demand, a speed neither its facilities nor surrounding environment can sustain. Thus construction of a new center will begin next year. The new CIEC will occupy an area of at least of 2.3 million square meters and be invested with three billion yuan. Planned are 20 single-story exhibition halls, each with an area of at least 10,000sq.m.

The distance between the future CIEC and Capital Airport will be 1.5 kilometers, far more convenient to exhibitors and international buyers and other business visitors than the current exhibition center.