What were the "Ten Great Buildings" of the 1950s?

The Ten Great Buildings of the 1950s were the Great Hall of the People, the Museum of Chinese History and Revolution, the Military Museum, the Palace of Ethnic Culture, the Ethnic Hotel, the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the National Art Museum of China, the Overseas Chinese Mansion (which had been demolished, but has now been rebuilt), the Beijing Railway Station? , National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing Workers Stadium and Workers Stadium.

1, the Great Hall of the People

The Great Hall of the People of the Chinese People*** and the Central Government of the State of the People's Assembly Hall is located in Beijing, China, Tiananmen Square on the west side of the south side of West Chang'an Street. The Great Hall of the People sits west to east, 336 meters long from north to south, 206 meters wide from east to west, 46.5 meters high, covers an area of 150,000 square meters, building area of 171,800 square meters.

The Great Hall of the People is the meeting place of the National People's Congress of China and the office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and it is an important place for the Party, the State and people's organizations to hold political activities;

It is also a place for the leaders of the Party and the State and the people of China to hold political, diplomatic and cultural activities. The Great Hall of the People, where the annual National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the five-yearly National Congress of the Chinese ****anufacturing Party are also held.

2, Chinese History and Revolutionary Museum

Chinese Revolutionary History Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Chinese History, is a national museum, the main task is to collect the country's important historical artifacts, to show China's long and splendid history and civilization;

while carrying out archaeology about Chinese historical artifacts, research, and the use of cultural relics to carry out social education work. Its predecessor is the beiping national museum of history, in 1912 in guozijian into gan preparatory office, and then moved to the end of the gate to the wumen area (north of tiananmen);

Opened on October 10, 1926. in July 1959 in the east side of tiananmen square was built in the new museum of chinese history in July 1961 was formally opened to the public.

In September 1969, the Chinese Revolutionary Museum and the Museum of Chinese History merged, called the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History. 1983, the Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution resumed its independent establishment, the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History, the official name of the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History for the time being.

3, the Military Museum

The full name of the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution is located in Beijing, Tiananmen Square west of the extension of Chang'an Street, was built in 1959, to the 10th anniversary of the National Day to the capital of one of the top ten buildings.

March 12, 1959, approved by the Central Military Commission of China ****, officially named the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.

The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution is the only large-scale comprehensive military history museum in China, covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters, with a building area of more than 60,000 square meters and a display area of more than 40,000 square meters. The main building is 94.7 meters high, with 7 floors in the center and 4 floors on both sides.

As of the end of 2012, the museum has 22 display halls and 2 display plazas. The Military Museum collects more than 340,000 pieces of cultural relics and collections. Among them, 1,793 pieces of national-level cultural relics, more than 250 pieces of large-scale weaponry, more than 1,600 pieces of art, and 2,551 pieces of gifts given in foreign military exchanges.

Among them are copper-gilt crossbow, iron anchor of Zhenyuan ship, Ye Ting's command knife, Type 38 rifle and the first tank of the PLA and other cultural relics of great historical value.

4, the Cultural Palace of Nationalities

The Cultural Palace of Nationalities (the Cultural Palace of Nationalities) is located in Beijing's West Chang'an Street, is a museum with the nature of the national flavor exhibition hall, the Cultural Palace of Nationalities building is unique, very national mood.

In September 2016, the Cultural Palace of Nationalities was selected as one of the "First Batch of China's 20th Century Architectural Heritage".

5, ethnic hotel

The tenth anniversary of the founding of the capital one of the top ten buildings. Four-star international high-grade business hotel. Located on the north side of Fuxingmennei Street in Xicheng District, Beijing. Building area of nearly 50,000 square meters. It has a Chinese restaurant, a Chaozhou restaurant, a seafood hot pot restaurant, a coffee shop, a western restaurant and a Turkish barbecue restaurant.

On December 2, 2017, it was selected for the second list of China's 20th century architectural heritage.

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