{"id":30506,"date":"2004-08-04T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/08\/04\/kempinski-signs-fifth-venture-in-china\/"},"modified":"2004-08-04T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T23:40:12","slug":"kempinski-signs-fifth-venture-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/08\/04\/30506\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempinski Signs Fifth Venture In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kempinski Hotels  and  Resorts continues its expansion in China, signing the management contract for a futuristic new-build hotel in the cultural centre of Wuxi, eastern China.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Kempinski Hotel Wuxi is the Group's fifth venture in China, joining other Kempinski Hotels in China in Beijing, Chengdu, Shenyang and Dalian to create a portfolio&amp;nbsp; which covers many of the country's major destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Just two hours' drive from Nanjing and Shanghai, the Kempinski Hotel Wuxi will offer over 400 rooms and suites, including 200 rooms designed specifically for the business traveller.&amp;nbsp; All rooms will be situated in a modern glass tower while the ballroom, accommodating up to 600 guests, separate entertainment centre, restaurants and shops will be in the base podium.<\/p>\n<p>Wuxi is situated in the Jiangsu province of China, with rapid rail links to Shanghai.&amp;nbsp; The city has a population of over 800,000 and is renowned for its beautiful lake scenery as well as its fine silk production.&amp;nbsp; A small, walled city in the early 19th century, Wuxi rapidly replaced Suzhou as the economic centre of the Tai lake basin.&amp;nbsp; The city's name, which is translated as \u0093without tin,\u0094 refers to the tin mines in the area that were exhausted during the Han dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kempinski Hotels and Resorts continues its expansion in China, signing the management contract for a futuristic new-build hotel in the cultural centre of Wuxi, eastern China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}