Great Hall of the People (Renmin Dahuitang) Beijing

West side of Tiananmen Sq., Xuanwu District, Beijing , China - Phone: 010/6309-6156
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    Architectural building, Government building

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    Off to China!

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    I've always wanted to visit China. I have studied the Orient and Japanese and Chinese Mandarin languages, so this was a dream come true for me.

    Beijing is a very crowded city (both people and automobiles). The people were very friendly, but there are many beggars, as well as aggressive salesman selling their souvenires and knock off …

Related BlogsGreat Hall of the People (Renmin Dahuitang) Beijing

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    Welcome to Beijing!!!

    ... Square and is near many important cultural and historical attractions such as the Forbidden City, Chairman Mao Mausoleum and the Great Hall of the People. Everything else is accessible by foot or subway. We will have to book transport to see the Great ...

  • 2

    Back in Beijing

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    ... Chinese government supports Tibetan Buddhism'. We head into the centre of Beijing and walk across Tianamen square to the Great Hall of the People. Its hard to be here without remembering the TV images of a lone protesting student standing defiantly ...

  • 3

    when the going gets tough, the tough toughen up...

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    ... the preserved body, but a wander around the perimeter revealed a couple of very large revolution statues (top centre), the Great Hall of the People (naturally difficult to get in to for the common man), the Chinese Revolutionary History Museum and the ...

  • 4

    Facts and figures about China

    ... ) 6/06Price for which China will rent out Beijing's Great Hall of the People: $12,000 Administrative Bureau of the Great Hall of the People (Beijing) 6/06Percentage of Chinese who say the free market is "the best system on which to base the future ...

  • 5

    'don't interrupt me when i'm talking ****!'

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    ... of mao, the national museum to the east and mao's mausoleum to the south (both closed for olympic renovations). and finally the great hall of the people to the west...which i went into to look around. the chinese government has its meetings here...the ...

  • 6

    Train #24 ulaanbaator to beijing we were ...

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    ... . * Tianamen Square We couldn't face the mile long queues to visit Chaiman Mao's mausoleum, but we did do the tour of the Great Hall of the People. Although only a few rooms are open to the public, it was worthwhile for the sheer opulence of it. We ...

  • 7

    walking the streets of Beijing

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    ... the view. Then I took an hour walk to Tiananmen Square.  This time I got right up close to the Great Hall of the People where the large picture of Mao was located.  I walked though the gate and explored ...

  • 8

    Beijing

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    ... Ho Chi Min, had to sow it back on. Taking up half the length of the west side of the square is the monolythic great hall of the people and on the east side are the museum of Chinese history and the museum of the revolution which are housed in the ...

  • 9

    Bunny goes to Beijing

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    ... big. Its not until you notice the little dots just above it are people that you realise... Headed into the Great Hall of the People, which is where the National Peoples' Congress (their rubber-stamp parliament) meets. Wasn't expecting ...

  • 10

    Seeing and Being the Sites

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    ... uses of it as we were in the Square and Forbidden City). Tienanmen Square (Gate of Heavenly Peace) is home to the Great Hall of the People where the Chinese legislature meets.  Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China ...