Empark Grand Hotel, a five-star standard hotel, has opened in Jinyang New District, Guiyang.

Empark Grand Hotel is located at Jinyang New District, the political, cultural and residential center of Guiyang. It is adjacent to Guiyang's trunk roads Beijing Xilu and Jinyang Dadao, and is a 15 minute drive from Guiyang Longdongbao Airport. Places of interest close to the hotel include Stone Forest Park, Guanshanhu Park, Wolong Park, commercial street, and other recreational facilities.

Boasting 520 fully-equipped rooms and suites, 12 meeting rooms of various sizes, the hotel also has a pillarless 2,000 square meter ballroom that can accommodate 1,000 people.

For fitness and entertainment, hotel has a 5,000 square meters area with a sauna, gym, heated swimming pool, club, and bar. The 600 square meter Chinese restaurant mainly serves Guangdong, Sichuan, and Guizhou cuisines.

Empark Grand Hotel, Guiyang is the ninth opened hotel developed by Empark Hotels & Resorts, one of the few local hotel management groups that adheres to a policy of self-design, self-construction, self-operation and self-management. The hotel has already been chosen as one of the designated hotels to cater for participants of the Ninth National Minority Traditional Sports Meeting to be held in 2011 in Guiyang.

(China Hospitality News September 25, 2009)