Beijing Children's Palace

　　The Beijing Students’ Activity Center (Beijing Children's Palace and Beijing Youth Science and Technology Museum) is a comprehensive extracurricular education institution under the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. Located to the north of the scenic Jingshan Park, it covers an area of 50,000 square meters with a construction area of 15,000 square meters. This complex of ancient buildings was originally a royal garden. In 1954, under the kind care of the then Mayor of Beijing, it was converted into an extracurricular activity venue for children and youth in Beijing. On January 1, 1956, the Beijing Children's Palace was established, and on May 26, 1957, the Beijing Youth Science and Technology Museum was founded. On July 6, 2000, the Beijing Children's Palace and the Beijing Youth Science and Technology Museum merged to form the Beijing Students’ Activity Center.

　　Over the past 50 years, the Beijing Children's Palace and the Beijing Youth Science and Technology Museum have received meticulous care from Party and state leaders. Veteran proletarian revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong and - watched performances by students of the Beijing Children's Palace; comrades such as -, Soong Ching Ling, and - attended children’s activities at the Palace on multiple occasions; comrade - personally inscribed the name of the Beijing Children's Palace; comrade - once met with Young Pioneers who presented flowers at the Palace; on May 31, 2004, the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, -, inspected the Beijing Children's Palace in person and celebrated International Children's Day with the children.

　　Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development