Introduction to Datong Hotel: Datong Hotel is located in Dashishe (today's Datong Road). It was jointly established in 1920 by Huang Ruiqing, Li Yutang, Su Bihua and others from Luoding, Guangdong. It is the first large-scale modern hotel after the opening of Wuzhou as a port. It is a municipal cultural relic protection unit.
At that time, Wuzhou Commercial Port Bureau, customs personnel, and important members of the Kuomintang Wuzhou Party Headquarters often used private rooms and banquets in the Datong Hotel; British Wuzhou Customs and Taxation Departments He Huachi, Tang Jiadun, Di Shile, An Qier, and Willarding During his term of office, he was a frequent visitor to Datong Hotel; between the autumn of 1925 and the spring of 1926, Zhou Enlai, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong District Executive Committee and Secretary of the Military Action Committee of the Communist Party of China, also stayed here when he secretly came to Wuzhou to understand the situation in Guangxi and guide the party building work; in 1926, the Guangdong National People's Congress Wang Jingwei, Chairman of the Revolutionary Government, and Tan Yankai, Member of the Standing Committee of the National Government, took a warship to Wuzhou to hold a military meeting with Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, and Bai Chongxi of the Guangxi Xingui Clan, as well as Ye Qi, a representative of the Hunan Army, An Jian, a representative of the Guizhou Army, and Fan Shisheng, a representative of the Yunnan Army. After the meeting, they held a military meeting in Datong Dozens of banquet tables were set up in the hotel.

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