The meeting room in Jingxi Hotel commonly used by the CPC Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference
The Jingxi Hotel is located on the south side of Fuxing Road,Yangfangdian Road and Yangfangdian West Road,opposite the CCTV Color TV Center across Fuxing Road on the north side of Fuxing Road. The construction of Beijing West Hotel started in 1959 for the 10th anniversary of the People's Republic,[3] and was completed in 1964.[9] Because of its geographical location,Luo Ruiqing,the secretary-general of the Central Military Commission,named it Jingxi Hotel,means Beijing West Hotel. The Jingxi Hotel belongs to the military establishment,management unit formerly known as the "People's Liberation Army General Staff Department Administration Jingxi Hotel Management Office",in September 2004 changed its name to the "People's Liberation Army General Staff Department Management and Security Department of the Jingxi Hotel Management Authority".[9][10][11] The hotel was originally designed for meetings and receptions,so there have plenty of meeting rooms inside. It is also the only large internal hotel in China that is not operated externally.[9]
After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution,the "Four Greats" of "Great clamor,Great release,Great debate,and Great print" spread to the People's Liberation Army for a time,and Ye Jianying,a senior officer of the People's Liberation Army,held an expanded meeting of the Military Commission at the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing on January 19,1967,to oppose the "Four Greats" in the military. On January 19,1967,the top military officials of the Chinese Communist Party held an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission at the Jingxi Hotel to oppose the "Four Greats" in the military,and Ye Jianying,Xu Xiangqian,Nie Rongzhen and other senior leading military cadres met with Jiang Qing and Chen Boda from the Central Cultural Revolutionary Group,where they had a heated argument and slammed the table,which was known as the "Incident of the Great Disturbance at the Jingxi Hotel" (大闹京西宾馆事件).[13][14]
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