New Century Global

I visited this place today. It’s a massive building complex. Its said to be the world’s largest free standing structure.

It’s about 30 minutes from the old city center. The city center is packed with smaller roads and side lanes and buildings of all sizes and vintages. This area is well planned with newer buildings, lots of open spaces and well laid out gardens and roads. I saw quite a few new hotels on the way there. I can imagine this to be a good place for hosting huge events.

It was built in 2014. Part hotel, offices, shopping, convention center, Olympic sized ice skating rink, cinema, garden with lots of places for children’s entertainment and with a huge car park.

I didn’t spend much time there. It’s a pity the shops were mostly local brands. Not many exciting food options like the other places I visited either. There were a few Chinese tea shops and I drank tea but it wasn’t a very satisfying experience.

The design of the building might be ok for a convention center but not ideal for a shopping mall. Quite a number of units were not occupied. There was a huge escalator from the 1st to the 4th floor. That was impressive.