@TanHal1.JPG (22418 bytes)The hall for People's legislature

It's located in the west of Tian'anmen Square. The big project is started in 1958. The whole area is 171,800 squaremeters, the central highest point is 46.5 meters high. The great project used just 9 months to be completed. The 12 pillars at the front gate is as wide as four people to embrace. So it's very majesty.

The hall is used for the people's delegate to discuss the national policy. Go into the central lobby, the hub of the whole building, you will see the auditorium for ten thousands in the west, the banquet hall in the north. And, go to the south through the corridor you'll see the office building. As you can see, the whole building is divided in the three parts above.

The picture above shows the view of The hall for People's legislature from the Tian'anmen kasbah.@TanHal2.JPG (8944 bytes)

The auditorium for ten thousands
In area of over 3,000 squaremeters. The farthest is 60 meters away from the Chairman's Table in the center, but there is no pillars there. That's because there is steel frame hide on the top, and all the weight is assumed to the two pillars in front of the Chairman's Table. It's not easy to hear the sound from the chairman's tables in other auditoria as big as this. But the enggineers elaborated their intelligence, they installed small speakers in all seats, and make the walls to mute sound, so that the extra sound waves will be sorb by the walls, that prevents the redundant echos.

The picture shows the central pentagon-star light on the top of the Audiorium. A pity was, the surrounding lights are turned off when we were taking the photo.

Beihai Park / Back / The Tian'anmen Square