1999年12月17日,四平百货大楼发生特大火灾,一至五楼近1万平方米面积过火,3名更夫被烧死,商店内物品及设施均被烧毁。四平百货大楼是一个具有40多年历史的商厦。从最早的四平百货二商店到后来的中百商厦及至企业改制后的四平百货大楼股份有限公司,企业走过了一条坎坷的经营之路,在改革的大潮中几经沉浮。 On December 17, 1999, an enormous fire broke out in Siping Department Store. Nearly 10,000 square meters of floor space on the first to fifth floors were over-heated, three of them were burnt to death, and the goods and facilities in the store were destroyed. Siping Department Store is a 40-year-old commercial buildings. From the earliest Siping department store two hundred to the later hundred commercial buildings and Siping Department Store Co., Ltd. after the reorganization of the enterprise, the enterprise has gone through a bumpy management road, ups and downs in the tide of reform.