The Great Hall of the People is located on the west side of Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing and on the south side of West Chang 'an Avenue. The Great Hall of the People is the place where the National People's Congress of China meets, and it is also the office of the National People's Congress and the NPC Standing Committee (the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress). It is an important place for the party, state and people's organizations to hold political activities, and it is also a place for China countries and people to hold political, diplomatic and cultural activities. The construction of the Great Hall of the People originated from the 10th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1959. China, the Central People's Government and the State Council decided to build ten major buildings, which showed the achievements of the past ten years. These buildings pursue the coordination of architectural art with urban planning and humanistic environment. The Great Hall of the People is one of the top ten buildings in the capital of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the 10 anniversary. It was designed and built entirely by engineers and technicians from China. Commencement in June 1958, completion in September 1959. It only took 10 months to complete. Created a great pioneering work in the architectural history of China. The Great Hall of the People concentrated the building materials from all over the country at that time, and the construction workers worked overtime to carry out the construction. It only took 10 months to complete all the decoration and equipment installation and debugging from the design drawings to the inside out. When the Great Hall of the People was first built, it was called the "Great Hall for Ten Thousand People". After the completion of 1959 on September 24th, then Prime Minister Zhou Enlai invited a group of experts to visit and inspect. Please give it a name. Mao Yisheng, a famous bridge expert, wrote the words "Great Hall of the People" on the paper. Later, the Great Hall of 10,000 people was designated as the Great Hall of the People. The Great Hall of the People is east-west, 336 meters long from north to south, 206 meters wide from east to west and 46.5 meters high. Covering an area of 1.5 million square meters, and building area of 1.7 1.8 million square meters. It is larger than the total building area of the Forbidden City. The Great Hall of the People is magnificent, with a "mountain" shape on the building plane, slightly lower wings, slightly higher middle part and doors on all sides. The exterior is light yellow granite, with yellow-green glazed tile eaves above, a granite base 5 meters high below, and a circular colonnade with a height of 134 around it. The main entrance of the Great Hall of the People faces Tiananmen Square. The forehead of the main entrance is inlaid with the national emblem of People's Republic of China (PRC). There are twelve light gray marble doorposts facing the main entrance. The main gatepost is 2m in diameter and 25m in height. There are 5-meter-high granite steps in front of the Fourth Gate. The architectural style of the Great Hall of the People is majestic, magnificent and elegant, full of national characteristics, and the surrounding buildings are distinct, which constitutes a solemn and beautiful picture of Tiananmen Square as a whole. Complete internal facilities, sound, light and temperature control, automatic fire alarm, fire extinguishing and other modern facilities. The building of the Great Hall of the People is mainly composed of three parts: the entrance is a quaint and elegant central hall (only there are no seats in the entrance hall). Behind the hall is the Great Hall of 10,000 people, 76 meters wide and 60 meters deep; The north wing of the conference hall is a grand banquet hall that can accommodate 5000 people; The south wing is the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC)'s office building. There are also clubs with local characteristics named after the names of provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China. The National People's Congress and the China People's Political Consultative Conference (hereinafter referred to as the two sessions) are held in the Great Hall of the People every year. The five-yearly National Congress of China was also held here. At present, the Great Hall of the People has been opened to the public. On February/February/2007 19, with the approval of the Beijing Municipal Government, the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics included the Great Hall of the People in the list of outstanding modern buildings in Beijing (the first batch).