The National Assembly Building is the first purpose-built meeting place of the

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(國會, Guóhuì) of the Republic of China in

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. It was designed by Curt Rothkegel (1876-1945), a German architect based in Qingdao. Rothkegel had made earlier (and grander) designs for a Parliament Building commissioned by the late

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, whose construction was started in 1910 on the site of today's Beijing International Hotel on East

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, but was left unfinished at the time of the

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in 1911. The building was used intermittently for sessions of the National Assembly during its troubled history from the aftermath of China's first national election to the Beijing Coup in October 1924. The National Assembly Building is now part of the compound of

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in central

. Xinhua restored it and uses it for events. The Xinhua History Exhibition Hall, an in-house museum, is located in nearby Republican-era brick buildings. The National Assembly building is not open to the public. ReaperturaDelParlamentoChino19160801

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