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Greenland Hotel

Greenland Hotel is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Greenland Hotel rather than just read about it. In short: The Greenland Hotel (Traditional Chinese: 格林蘭大酒店; Simplified Chinese: 格林兰大酒店) is a building located in Erqi District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, on Datong Road near the east station of Zhengzhou Railway Station, with a height of 114.5 meters. It was completed in 1988 and was the first building in Zhengzhou over 100 meters tall, also being the tallest building in Zhengzhou at the time.

Key takeaways

Greenland Hotel belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Greenland Hotel to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Greenland Hotel from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Greenland Hotel (Traditional Chinese: 格林蘭大酒店; Simplified Chinese: 格林兰大酒店) is a building located in Erqi District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, on Datong Road near the east station of Zhengzhou Railway Station, with a height of 114.5 meters. It was completed in 1988 and was the first building in Zhengzhou over 100 meters tall, also being the tallest building in Zhengzhou at the time.

Architectural design Greenland Hotel was designed by Zhengzhou City Architectural Design Institute, covering an area of 8907 square meters, divided into a main building and an annex. The main building has 35 floors above ground and 2 underground, reaching a height of 114.5 meters, while the annex has 4 floors above ground and 1 below, with a height of 19.3 meters. The main building uses a box-type foundation with reinforced concrete shear wall structure, and is earthquake-resistant up to level 7. The annex is a cast-in-place reinforced concrete frame structure. There are escalators between the main building and the annex, and the building is equipped with 7 high-speed elevators and an automatic firefighting system. The 32nd floor of the main building houses a revolving restaurant.

History Greenland Hotel was originally called Huang Heping Plaza (黄和平大厦), started in January 1986, topped off in September 1987, and completed in June 1988, standing at 113.6 meters tall at the time as the tallest building in Zhengzhou, known as "the tallest building north of the Yangtze River". The annex originally housed the Huang He Ping Shopping Center, which opened on February 10, 1988, and was at that time the largest shopping center in Zhengzhou. Due to poor management, the hotel was closed in October 1998 and reopened at the end of 2004. In December 2018, Greenland Hotel was listed as one of the first batch of historic buildings in Zhengzhou City.

Transportation The Greenland Hotel is located south of the East Plaza of Zhengzhou Station. The bus harbor on the south side of the East Plaza serves as the starting point for more than ten routes of Zhengzhou Bus.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Greenland Hotel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Greenland Hotel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Greenland Hotel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Greenland Hotel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Greenland Hotel

In research: Greenland Hotel appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Greenland Hotel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Greenland Hotel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1988, Buildings and structures in Zhengzhou, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Greenland Hotel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Greenland Hotel in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Greenland Hotel means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Greenland Hotel out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Greenland Hotel in simple terms?

Why does Greenland Hotel matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Greenland Hotel?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Greenland Hotel.