in Shaanxi Province in the northwest.
The hotel will be built of stone and cost 5 million yuan (US$600,000). It will be 500 meters from the cave-houses used by late Chairman Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, and other revolutionary veterans between 1936 and 1947.
Yan'an was thus described as the holy land of Chinese revolutionaries.
Just like the traditional loessial cave-houses built in Yan'an on the Loess Plateau, the new cave dwellings are cool in summer and warm in winter, the news agency said.
Local officials said the hotel will surpass the current world's record-holder, Yan'an University, which has 226 cave houses in six rows.
(eastday.com 10/15/2001)
