Antique hotel

Every April an unassuming Holiday Inn becomes a hot destination for buyers and sellers of Chinese antiques. Zhao Xu finds out why

From the outside, the Holiday Inn, a 14-storey hotel located beside Jinshui Avenue in central China's Zhengzhou City, is not unlike any other hotel in China or the rest of the world.

Yet every April, for just a few days, the unassuming hotel transforms into a giant antique store.