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Shenzhen Guesthouse Hotel is a three star hotel in the Dongmen business district of Shenzhen, China.
The main structure of the hotel is a winged 11 storey tower with 620 rooms and located on 15 Xin Yuan Road in the Lu Hu District of Shenzhen. [1] The hotel is a short distance (3 minutes by car [2] ) from the Hong Kong-China border at Lo Wu Control Point. The complex has 10 villas that provide more private accommodations for important guests.
One of the conference halls of the hotel housed the Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong from September 1996 to 27 January 1997. [3]
Besides hosting the provisional Hong Kong Government, the hotel has hosted mainland government needs [4]
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