New Campus to be Expected: Chengze Garden
Jan 17-2014
Chengze Garden sits east of the Weiming Lake of Peking University and west of the Summer Palace and Western Hill. It was once the residential garden of Prince Yunli, the 17th son of Emperor Kangxi, as seen in the popular television series Empresses in the Palace. After that, Zaifeng, the de facto ruler of China in the last years of Qing Dynasty, Zhang Boju, one of the Four Childe during the Republic of China, and Peng Dehuai, the founding Marshal of the People’s Republic of China all had spent a part of their lives here.
Today it is set to become a new campus of the National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University, as a supplement to the existing Langrun Garden, providing another royal-garden style campus for MBA and EMBA students alike.
Compared to the purely classic style of Langrun Garden, Chengze Garden perfectly integrates the classic and the modern into its 20,000 m2 campus. The new campus will include a basketball court, modern lecture hall and a multi-function conference room with a capacity of over 300 people. In addition, a coffee house decorated with a water curtain and sunken garden fully showcases organic architecture: low-carbon, environmental friendly, and a living part of nature.
This is where the past and present come together, where economics and management are integrated - welcome to the new campus of the National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University, welcome to Chengze Garden.
