 Chaoyangmen Outer Street in 2003. To the left the China Life Tower and right the Guangyao Apartment Tower. | |
| Location | Beijing, China |
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Chaoyangmen Outer Street (simplified Chinese: 朝阳门外大街; traditional Chinese: 朝陽門外大街; pinyin: Cháoyángmén Wài Dàjiē) is a major through route in Beijing, China, and runs through the Chaowai area near Chaoyangmen.[1] Geographically, it is in the eastern urban area, and is still considered very close to the city centre even though it lies outside the 2nd Ring Road.[2] It is north of a similarly significant area, the future Beijing CBD.[3]
Chaoyangmen Outer Street runs from Chaoyangmen Bridge through to the massive Dongdaqiao crossing. In its path lie office blocks, shopping areas, and technology stores (including the Bainaohui area), making it one of the busiest streets in Beijing. Traffic is often congested, especially near the nodal points Chaoyangmen and Dongdaqiao.
- ^ 北京地名典 [Beijing Place Name Code]. 中国文联出版社 [China Federation of Literary and Art Publishing House]. 2008. p. 444.
- ^ Johnson, Ian (5 April 2015). "China's memory manipulators". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
In the capital, for example, the Foreign Ministry is located on Chaoyangmenwai, or the Street Outside the Chaoyang Gate. Just a few hundred metres west, the street changes name to Chaoyangmennei, or the Street Inside the Chaoyang Gate. In between is the Second Ring Road. The streets' names only make sense if you realise that the ring road was built on the site of the city walls, which had a passageway right there, Chaoyangmen, the Chaoyang Gate. The wall has become a highway and the gate an interchange. Nothing beyond the street names exists in the neighbourhood to remind you of either spectral structure.
- ^ "Chaowai Men, Tower A".
Chaowai MEN is located at the Chaoyangmen Outer, only 200 meters south to the Chaoyangmen road. Adjacent to Chaoyang Government and CBD area, connected to Prime Tower, Full Link Plaza. A complex within retail, office and residential apartment.