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Mao's villa - Meiling

 

    Meiling was Mao's summer villa where he lived for a long time and often visited many times besides Zhongnanhai.


    He came here once a year up to three times a year, at the most, and stayed for one month to as long as six months. Meiling Building One is the most interesting structure since it was Chairman Mao's private residence where he ate, slept, wrote and conducted numerous daily national affairs. He gave audience many celebrities and foreign friends, including President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of the United States of America in 1972. Moreover, he wrote here the famous poem Swim that won universal praises.