Providing the main regional conference and exhibition facilities in Northwest China, the Xinjiang Exhibition & Conference Centre has revamped its technical services with an audio installation designed by PCI, the exclusive QSC distributor in China.

Bordering Russia and several Central Asian states, Xinjiang is often regarded as a bridge from China to the rest of Asia and Europe, making it an ideal centre for international trade fairs, exhibitions and economic forums. The was designed with these nationally important functions in mind, and as such, has become a symbol of the new China in Ürümqi.

The backbone of the system is provided by QSC’s Q-Sys integrated System Platform. Comprising two Core 1000 Q-Sys processors serving multiple QSC PowerLight 3 amplifiers and QSC WideLine, ILA, AcousticDesign and K Series loudspeakers, this covers more than 20 of the centre’s conference rooms.

As with any other centre with this brief, the network, sound and conferencing systems had to be easy to use, reliable and flexible. PCI recommended Q-Sys as an easily controllable, powerful system, scalable to a variety of applications.

The Xinjiang Exhibition & Conference Centre has 22 conference rooms spread over three floors. A single Q-Sys Core 1000 unit (with a second unit for redundancy) now manages all of the audio signals from the complex's central control room, monitoring the operational state of all the system's I/O, loudspeakers and PowerLight 3 amplifiers, and controlling the system-wide signal processing and routing.

The largest room in the centre is a 1,500-seat auditorium, which incorporates its own Q-Sys I/O Frame, PowerLight 3 amplifiers, AD-S282H AcousticDesign speakers, together with AD-C2100 ceiling speakers arranged in six zones, as the chamber can be divided up to six ways if required. Another conference hall using QSC systems has a maximum capacity of 800 and features a Q-Sys I/O Frame, PowerLight 3 amplification, and 12 WideLine-8 units, as well as AD-S282H speakers.

The smaller chambers, such as one of the 400-seat lecture halls used by the United Nations for press conferences during the recent China-Eurasia Forum, also call on QSC. This chamber again features a dedicated Q-Sys I/O Frame, with eight ceiling-suspended QSC ILA speakers driven by PowerLight 3s, and supplemented with AcousticDesign speakers around the chamber. For the most select meetings between officials, such as those held during the forum by Keqiang Li, Vice-Premier of the State Council of China, a 150-seat conference room was used, employing QSC AD-C821R ceiling-mouted and AD-S282H ceiling-suspended speakers, together with K Series Active loudspeakers.

Following the expo, the centre's management commented: ‘The Q-Sys platform was so powerful and easy to use, it allowed us to simply focus on the running of the conference itself. It proved itself absolutely ideal for this kind of project.’

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