On the south of Changan Xi Street stands a white, rectangle building, based upon black marble, with refined style and dignified model. This is Beijing Concert Hall, which is the first of modern style and specially designed for musical performance. It faces the attractive scenery of Zhongnanhai, with the broad Chang'an Street lying in front of it. Such magnificence as of Tian'anmen Square can all be seen from it.

Beijing Concert Hall was built in September 1985. Its performing hall can hold an audience of 1,182. Employment of a series of modern architectural acoustics equipped the Hall with great sound quality, characteristic frequency, appropriate reverberation, and well-distributed acoustic fields. These distinguished advantages of the Hall in hall acoustics attracted many famous performers as well as a large audience.

Meanwhile, the Hall can carry out various recording works for whoever needs them, making the best of its advantages in music and advanced recording equipment.

It is well-shown, since its opening, that Beijing Concert Hall is the front of serious music publicity, an assembly of quintessence of world music, a window displaying the capital's musical lives, thus will sure become the center of musical activities. In this brand-new historic era of building modern civilization, Beijing Concert Hall will spare no effort to enrich Beijinger's musical lives, to develop people's noble sentiments, to advance our philharmonic industry, and to expand the cultural communication of world music.