The resplendent and magnificent building beside Zhongtian Plaza is famous China Mayor's Plaza. Just as its name implies, China Mayor's Plaza is a training center, conference center, information center and fellowship activity center for the mayors in the whole country. This is a generous gift presented by Guangzhou Municipal Government to more than 5,000 mayors in more than 600 cities in the whole country. The plaza was opened in February, 1997. It is a multifunctional complex building fitted up according to five-star level standard and it is the seat of China Mayor Association. The plaza is twenty-eighty storeys high and the building area is 23,000 square meters. The lower fourteen stories are used as hotel and the upper fourteen stories are used as the conference center, training center and offices.
The architectural style of the plaza is unique and it can be called as the elaborate works of architectural art. The external wall at four sides adopts up-to-date golden glass curtain wall. In the sunshine in four seasons in the south, it is golden and emits extraordinary splendor. There is a semicircular square before the gate and more than thirty round columns form the hallway to raise the half-arc cope. It is analogous to the style of Roman architecture and the momentum of the plaza is extraordinary. The whole plaza harmonizes with Guangzhou Metropolis Plaza and New Tianhe Town to form a unique sight.
The geographic location of China Mayor's Plaza is very advantageous. To the east, there is the cloud-kissing highest building in Guangzhou CITIC Plaza; to the south, there are Tianhe Sports Center, Tianhe Town Plaza and New Zhujiang City; to the west, there is wide Times Plaza; to the north, there is Guangzhou East Railway Station and the largest East Railway Station greening plaza in the whole city. The floor area of the greening plaza is about 70,000 square meters and it looks like a huge green carpet and adds vigorous vitality to this new city zone.
Overlooking from the windows in all stories, you can see the general picture of the modernization construction in Tianhe Town zone: the grand saddle-shaped Tianhe Sports Center is near at hand; numerous high-grade hotels, commercial buildings and modern dwelling house groups emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain; President Grand Hotel, Times Plaza, Xinjiang Mansion, Jingxing Hotel, Dushi Huating, Jingdi Garden and Huabian Plaza look like the clusters of stars shining in the Milky Way. The New Tianhe Town becomes the science and technology center, sports center, cultural center, financial center and materials circulation center of Guangzhou and multiple more than thirty stories high-grade residential quarters assemble here. China Mayor's Plaza is nothing more than a bright pearl on this golden and treasure place.
China mayor's Plaza is managed by a specialized management company belonging to abundant Guangdong Guowei (Holding) Co. Ltd. The management company is provided with the most advanced computer management system in the world and is provided with the high-quality specialized managers to manage this plaza according to the standard for a five-star hotel. The mayor's Plaza becomes another new symbol building in Guangzhou for its unique political function, unique architectural style, advantageous geographic location and high-grade management service.
The lower thirteen floors of the plaza are used as hotel. The first floor is the pure, fresh, elegant, resplendent and magnificent hall with coffee house, commercial center, banking department and the business department of the provincial branch of China Travel Service and so on. In the high-grade restaurant where the Romanesque colonnade and plaza sight can be seen, the area of the Chinese and western restaurant is more than 2,000 square meters. On the second and third floor, New Litchi Restaurant with elegant style and attentive and satisfactory service provides morning tea, lunch and supper every day. Some cooked foods, such as Special Seal Meat in Clay Pot and Whale Shark Fin Braised in Brown Sauce and so on, are famous far and near. The fifth and sixth floor is provided with Mingcheng Gymnastic Center, Hairdressing & Beautification Center and the Health Sauna Center with steam medicated bath to provide all-side and high grade service for the guests. The floors from seven to thirteen are provided with guest rooms fitted according to five-star standard. The plaza is also provided with unwonted female story with unique style.
The upper fourteen stories are used as the office and conference training center. Besides famous commercial and trading companies, the business office of Guangzhou Branch of China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd. and Guangzhou Division of China Pingan Insurance Company are also on the office floor and the management company of this plaza China Mayor's Plaza Guowei Management Co., Ltd. also handles official business here. Guangzhou Training Center of China Mayor Association is on the fifteenth floor and the office of China Mayoress Sodality is on the sixteenth floor. Here, the Mayor Training Conference Center with top-ranking fitment is provided for mayors to get together to talk over the major programs of country and city administration and draw beautiful blueprint. |