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Peace Hotel is a real fusion of ancient and modern, East and West. 12-story Peace Hotel, built in the Gothic style of Chicago School, first opened as Cathay Pacific Hotel in 1929. The granite exterior wall of the hotel and its copper-plated roof are 77 meters above the ground. The first owner of Guotai Hotel was Victor Sassoon, a British Iraqi Jew who made a fortune by selling opium and weapons. With its ivory walls, revolving hall doors, Italian marble white floors and copper chandeliers, the hotel has become the symbol of the most luxurious "the first mansion in the East" on the Bund.

Guotai Hotel is famous for its luxury and splendor in Shanghai. It mainly receives distinguished guests from all over the world, including politicians, financiers, entrepreneurs, important China officials and celebrities, such as General Marshall, Charlie Chaplin and Bernard Shaw. It was in the Cathay Hotel that Noel Coward finished his famous drama Private Life. 1949 After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), 1956 Peace Hotel reopened. After the recent renovation, all rooms and restaurants are equipped with first-class facilities to provide guests with the best comfort and convenience.

Peace Hotel was built in 1929, formerly known as Hua Mao Hotel. It is a Gothic building of Chicago School, 77 meters high, with 12 floors. Hua Mao Hotel was built by Alice Victor Sasson, a wealthy British Jew at that time. The outer wall is made of granite and enters through the rotating hall door. The lobby floor is covered with ivory Italian marble and the ceiling is decorated with bronze chandeliers, which is luxurious and elegant and has the reputation of "the first floor in the Far East".

After the hotel was completed, it became famous in Shanghai, famous for its luxury, and mainly received celebrities from financial circles, business circles and countries. For example, Private Life, the masterpiece of American General Marshall, President Si Tuleideng and playwright Noel Coward, was written in the Peace Hotel. In 1930s and 1940s, Lu Xun and Soong Ching Ling came to the hotel to meet foreign friends, such as Chaplin and Bernard Shaw.

After liberation, the hotel reopened on 1956 and was named Peace Hotel. In recent years, the Peace Hotel has renovated its guest rooms and dining rooms, but its architectural style remains the same as that of that year, which makes the guests living here feel as if they are in just visiting, imagining thousands of things in the fusion and interlacing of modernity and tradition, trendy and retro.