Venue name in Chinese: 国家会议中心
Venue name in English: China National Convention Center
Venue address: No. 7 Tianchen East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Number of conference rooms: 100+
Exhibition area: 40,000 square meters
Contact: 8610-6499 1899
About the venue:
The magnificent China National Convention Center (CNCC) is located in the heart precinct of Beijing Olympic Green, adjacent to the Bird's Nest Stadium, the Water Cube and National Indoor Stadium, with a total land area of about 12.22 hectares, and a total construction area of about 530,000 square meters. It provides a meeting and exhibition area of 270,000 square meters. The main building consists of 2 floors underground and 8 floors above the ground, 42 m high, 398 m long and 148 m wide, which is the largest single building in terms of construction area among all Olympic buildings, and is equipped with supporting facilities covering a construction area of 260,000 square meters, including 2 hotels, 2 office buildings, and commercial buildings.
During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, CNCC housed the International Broadcast Center (IBC), the Main Press Center (MPC) and the Fencing Arena, and was also the site of the hotel for media. IBC and MPC provided services for 12,000 broadcasters from 120 radio and television stations and 6,512 registered journalists and photographers; the Fencing Arena accommodated fencing and wheelchair fencing games; and the CNCC Grand Hotel accommodated a total of 1,008 registered media reporters from 87 domestic and overseas media and representatives of the Olympic Committee during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
After the Olympic Games, CNCC underwent some local renovations, and re-opened grandly at the end of 2009. As China's largest and newest convention center with the advantages of superior geographic location and sophisticated supporting facilities, CNCC strives to become a world-class large-scale conference and exhibition center that could meet the needs to hold large conferences, exhibitions, various public events and function as hotel accommodation facilities.
Located in the center of the Olympic commercial circle by Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road, CNCC is extremely accessible, 26 km away or a 30 minutes' drive from Beijing Capital International Airport. The transportation from CNCC to tourism attractions, such as Tian'anmen Square, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, or to the east third ring road commercial area, Beijing Railway Station and Zhongguancun, is also very convenient. CNCC is connected to the downtown, railway station and airport via subway Line 8 which has a subway station for CNCC, and is also covered by a number of bus routes.
CNCC accommodates more than 100 conference rooms of various sizes, which are all equipped with the most advanced audio and visual conferencing facilities, with the capacity of meeting multi-functional service needs in holding conferences, banquets, performances, new product releases, corporate events and other activities of different sizes ranging from 20 to 5,000 + participants. The largest conference room, with an area of 6,400 square meters, has a capacity of 5,100 seats, while the banquet hall, with an area of 4,860 square meters, has a maximum capacity of 2,500 seats.
The total exhibition area is 40,000 square meters, among which the exhibition hall on the first floor, with a net ceiling height of 10 meters, takes an area of 22,000 square meters.
With only three pillars in the hall, it can be flexibly divided into four independent sections for exhibition.
CNCC Grand Hotel is another important supporting facility in CNCC, which has 420 rooms, a cafe, a lobby bar, and a fitness center, etc. It takes only 3 minutes to walk from the hotel to CNCC through the outdoor walkway.
In addition to catering service such as banquets and tea breaks, CNCC also provides other services, such as advertising, production, and equipment leasing.
There are sufficient accommodation facilities around CNCC within a 1 km radius, including 3 five-star hotels, 7 four-star hotels, more than 10 three-star hotels and apartments, with a total of more than 5,000 rooms, which could fully meet the accommodation needs in large international conference events. In addition, there are a wide range of shopping,
entertainment, catering, and exhibition service facilities in the surrounding area.