Beijing Hotel NUO Forbidden City

Beijing, China. Located at the southern end of Wangfujing Street, on East Chang’an Avenue, with views of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.

Beijing Hotel NUO Forbidden CityBeijing, China

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Practical information

Address: Beijing Hotel NUO
33 East Chang An Avenue
Dongcheng District, Beijing
China
Telephone: +86 10 6526 3388
Official website: www.nuohotel.com
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Occupies the historic 1917 Block B of the Beijing Hotel complex and the modern Block E behind it.
Restaurants and bars in Western and Asian styles, long favoured by foreign visitors and heads of state.
Served as headquarters of the International Olympic Committee during the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Located at the southern end of Wangfujing Street, on East Chang’an Avenue, with views of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1915
The Grand Hôtel de Pékin completes its first wing, a red-brick building of five storeys.
1917
A second wing, today’s Block B, is finished, making the hotel one of the oldest in Beijing.
1933
Zhang Jingyao is shot by an assassin inside the hotel.
1937
After the Marco Polo Bridge incident of 7 July, Japanese forces take over the hotel; the Kuomintang government later succeeds them.
1949
The banquet hall receives Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other guests at the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
1954
A new wing, Block C, is added to the west of the 1917 building.
1974
The original 1915 wing is demolished to make way for Block D, an 89-metre tower that becomes Beijing’s tallest building.
Spring 1989
Foreign journalists based at the hotel cover the Tiananmen Square protests; AP photographer Jeff Widener takes the “Tank Man” picture from here.
2001
Block E is built directly behind the 1917 wing.
2006
Following an agreement signed in April 2005 with the Beijing Tourism Group, Blocks B and E reopen after renovation as Raffles Beijing Hotel.
1 December 2016
The Raffles contract ends and the historic blocks are renamed Beijing Hotel NUO.