This Day, That Year

Item from Sept 7, 1983, in China Daily: A group of gleaming white, pinwheel-shaped halls will rise in Beijing as the country's first science and technology palace.

The center with a floor space of 66,000 square meters, upon completion, will receive an estimated 10,000 visitors a day. There will also be a film-lecture hall with 980 seats and a panoramic cinema.

Opened in 1988, the China Science and Technology Museum had been a favorite of residents, especially teenagers, in Beijing.