The Diaoyutai State Guesthouse was first constructed in October 1958 and was fully completed in August 1959. As the official state guesthouse, and out of respect for the customs of foreign guests, the complex does not include buildings #1 or #13.
Building #2 Building #2, with the Diaoyutai Center Lake in the west, the Cherry Garden in the south, and adjacent to the Presidential Building #18, is equipped with 27 sets of head suites, deluxe suites, ordinary rooms and standard rooms, large and small meeting rooms, banquet halls and four-seasons halls. The building can receive all kinds of delegations and tours, organize small and medium-sized banquets, and also cooperate with the Building #18 to receive large governmental delegations.
Building #3 Building #3 is located in the center of the State Guesthouse, adjacent to the Club in the north, surrounded by the lake, flowers, plants and trees, with a very beautiful environment. The indoor banquet hall, large and small living rooms and luxurious guest rooms are set up, which is an ideal comprehensive reception building.
Building #4 Bafangyuan (), or Building #4, is located in the northeast corner of the hotel campus and was once the place where Premier
Zhou Enlai had his office and met with foreign guests.
Building #5 Building #5 is located in the northern center of the hotel park, which is the venue for many state affairs activities. There are twenty-four suites in Building #5, including the Head Suite, Deluxe Suite, Ordinary Suite and Standard Rooms, Meeting Room, Negotiation Room, Banquet Room and Hundred People's Room. Chinese leaders often hold state affairs activities here. In
March 1970, a coup d'état in Cambodia deposed
Prince Sihanouk as head of state. Despite the coup d'état, Zhou Enlai received Sihanouk with the same courtesy as a head of state. Sihanouk lived in Building 5, Zhou made elaborate arrangements for this purpose: antiques, paintings, all kinds of elegant, neat furniture. In addition, specifically for Sihanouk's wife
Princess Monique selected a number of reliable service personnel. On July 9, 1971, Dr.
Henry Kissinger visited China secretly as a prelude to U.S. President
Richard Nixon's visit to China and resided in Building #5. At about 4:00 p.m., Premier
Zhou Enlai came and shook hands with Kissinger "This is the first time in 29 years that senior officials of China and the United States have shaken hands." On 20 July 2023, Henry Kissinger visited China again, and
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping met with him at Building #5. Kissinger expressed his appreciation to Xi for choosing the meeting venue, noting that it was the same place where he had first met Chinese leaders during his initial visit to China decades earlier. During the luncheon, the Chinese side specially prepared
longevity peaches, symbolizing respect for Kissinger's centenarian age and conveying best wishes for his health. This visit marked his final trip to China before his death. 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.
Building #6 Building #6 is located in the northwest corner of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, with the Yuyuantan Stream flowing past the front of the building, and a pool of blue water faintly visible through the dense woods. The interior decoration is simple and elegant, with strong national characteristics.
Building #7 Building #7 has 14 guest rooms with European interiors.
Building #8 Building #8 has a total of 27 guest rooms, plus large and small conference halls and banquet halls.
Building #9 Building #9 is European style, located in the center of the hotel, mainly designed for living and working, holding various small banquets and conferences. During the Cultural Revolution,
Wang Hongwen,
Zhang Chunqiao, and Yao Wenyuan all resided in Building #9.
Building #10 Building #10 has 23 guest rooms, plus large and small conference and banquet rooms. During the Cultural Revolution,
Jiang Qing resided in Buildings #10 and #11.
Building #11 Building #11 has 26 guest rooms plus the Hall, large and small conference halls, banquet halls and the Four Seasons Hall; the style is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, mainly designed for organizing small and medium-sized banquets.
Building #12 Building #12 is located in the middle of the southern part of the hotel park, looking at Fangfeiyuan (Building #17), with 17 presidential suites, luxury suites, ordinary suites, standard guest rooms, and set up a meeting room, negotiation hall, banquet hall, four seasons hall. The Four Seasons Hall is spacious and bright, with rockeries, streams, springs, pools and valuable flowers and trees. Building #12 was once the residence of CCP Chairman
Mao Zedong, as well as the place where U.S. President
Reagan and British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher stayed.
Building #14 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 () and Kwon Byeong-hyun (), 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. To ensure the confidentiality of issues, the two sides agreed that the second round of negotiations still be held in Building #14.
Building #15 s in Danruo Garden Building #15 has 17 guest rooms, large and small conference halls and banquet halls, as well as the "Danruo Garden" (), a garden within the pavilion where
pomegranates are planted throughout.
Building #16 Building #16, located at the East Gate of Diaoyutai, is a comprehensive reception building with a banquet hall, a living room and luxurious guest rooms. 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. On November 1, 2022, Premier
Li Keqiang meets with
Nguyen Phu Trong,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who is in China for an official visit, at Diaoyutai Fanghuayuan. In 2022, the Russian president
Vladimir Putin came to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, held a "New Year's meeting" here with Chinese leader
Xi Jinping.
Building #18 Building #18, with its faux Ming-style architecture, is located in the center of Diaoyutai, on the north side of the central lake. Most of the foreign heads of state stay in the 18th building. On February 21, 1972, U.S. president Richard Nixon
visited China and stayed in the 18th building. 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 September 1972, Japanese prime minister
Kakuei Tanaka visited 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. In October 1986,
Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, who was the first head of state in British history to visit China and stayed at here. The U.S. president
George H.W. 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.
North Korea's supreme leader
Kim Jong-un stayed at the Guesthouse's No. 18 villa during his 2018 trip to China. == Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ==