Beginning in December of this year, the White Swan Hotel will be closed for 10 months for renovation. RMB 530 million is to be invested. The White Swan renovation project has been approved by the provincial government. According to the preliminary plan, every two or three rooms will be merged into one room. Therefore, after the renewal, the number of rooms will be fewer than the present 843.

Opened more than 20 years ago, the White Swan Hotel, China's first Sino-foreign cooperative joint venture five-star hotel, has received more than 40 leaders of different countries, including British Queen Elizabeth II, U.S. President George W. Bush, former U.S. President Richard M Nixon, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban President Fidel Castro, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Norodom Sihanouk, Lee Kuan Yew and other international celebrities.

Editor: Donald