28 August 1985

LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou opened

On August 28, 1985, the LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou (廣州花園酒店) fully opened.

Following China's Reform and Opening-up, the hotel was among the first batch of high-end hotels built domestically with foreign investment.

It was initiated by Liao Chengzhi (廖承志), then Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Richard Charles Lee (利銘澤) of Hong Kong's Hysan Development Company, with a total investment of nearly HKD 1 billion.

Planning for the hotel began in 1979. It was conceptually designed by the internationally renowned architect I.M. Pei (貝聿銘) and even received a personal inscription from Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平).

As a representative work of Lingnan architecture, the hotel innovatively incorporated Lingnan gardens into modern architecture.

With a garden as its theme, the hotel has courtyards, front and back gardens, east and west gardens, rooftop gardens, rockeries, flowing waterfalls, with a total of 21,000 square metres of three-dimensional greenery.

It is the largest and the most culturally distinctive luxury hotel in the city centre of South China.

After the expiration of the joint venture term on January 1, 2005, the LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou became fully owned by the Guangzhou Municipal Government and is now one of the core enterprises of the Lingnan Group.

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