The China Millennium Monument, as China's symbolic and commemorative building to welcome the Year 2000, is a gift for the world of the 21st century from the Chinese people, forever standing in China's capital Beiling.
The China Millennium Monument is a grand structure. Fusing the spirit of traditional culture and the art of modern design, it covers an area of 4.5 hectares. On the southern entrance to the Monument, there is the Plaza of Holy Fire. Its area is 960 square meters, representing China's vast territory of 9,600,000 square kilometers. Walking along the plaza, tourists will see a 270-meter long bronze tunnel that has inscriptions on its walls with chronogram that dates from when humans first appear to 2000 A.D.
All over the world, celebrations and festivities to usher in Year 2000 make up one of the grandest spectacles at the end of the century, as mankind strides towards the new century and millennium.
New opportunities, challenges, and hopes are emerging over the horizon of China of the 21st century. The Chinese nation, with its splendid civilization of 5000 years, is on the threshold of an epoch of great renewal, as a future of yet greater splendour is arising in the East of the world.
At the turn of the century and millennium, the China Millennium Monument, with its oriental cultural overtones and contemporary architectural art, will promote the national spirit by embodying an original style, displaying a modern aestheticism, and expressing hopes of the future.
Admission fee: RMB 30/person (regular), RMB 15/person (student), RMB 25/person (group)
Opening hours: (Summer time) Monday-Thur: 08:00-18:00, Friday-Sunday: 08:00-21:00; (Winter time) Monday-Sunday: 08:30-17:30
Transportation
1. Proceed to Beijing by air, then take NO. 1, 4, 33, 65, 320, 337, 728, 827, Special 1 bus to Military Museum Stop.
2. Proceed to Beijing by air and take subway line 1 to Military Museum Stop.