Diaoyutai State Guesthouse
The modern State Guesthouse Park was built by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958–1959 on the basis of the ancient Diaoyutai Scenic Spot, as a place for visiting dignitaries to stay and for meetings and conferences.
[3]: 8 In 1763, the old site of the Yuzao Pond was dredged into a lake, and the water of Xiangshan Mountain was introduced to the moat outside the Fuchengmen Gate, which was called "Yuyuantan".
The Government of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and to receive foreign heads of state and government coming to China to participate in the National Day, they chose the site of the ancient Diaoyutai scenic spot in 1958, and instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize, plan, and build a state guesthouse, which was named as the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
Sihanouk lived in Building 5, Zhou made elaborate arrangements for this purpose: antiques, paintings, all kinds of elegant, neat furniture.
[7] The ceremony of the then Premier Li Peng, presenting the Certificate of Appointment to the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, was held here.
"[8] Premier Li Keqiang attends the Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and delivers a speech at Fanghuayuan on January 16, 2016.
[9] On November 1, 2022, Premier Li Keqiang meets with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPC), who is in China for an official visit, at Diaoyutai Fanghuayuan.
[10] On May 13–15, 1992, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Xu Dunxin, Ambassador Zhang Ruijie, and Undersecretaries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, Roh Chang-hee (노창희) and Kwon Byeong-hyun (권병현), held the first round of pragmatic negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations in the Building #14, where the first round of negotiations ended inconclusively.
On February 23, Zhou Enlai and Nixon shifted the venue of their meeting to the 18th building and began to discuss the drafting of the Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China.
In Building 18, he and Premier Zhou Enlai signed an agreement on the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, starting the first page of Sino-Japanese friendship.
Bush, the former head of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, the Emperor and his wife of Japan, and the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin who visited China also stayed in Building #18.
