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More than just a Sanlitun pub street
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-12 09:07
Foreigners and young Beijingers looking for a night out in the Chinese
capital will soon have more to enjoy than just drinking and dancing in the
city's famous Sanlitun pub street.
A daytime scene from Sanlitun South
Street, a resort for Beijing bar-goers.
[baidu] | | The Beijing
Municipal Government has recently decided to enlarge and enrich the street's
amenities so that visitors will also have easy access to more vivid and colorful
recreation centers, such as gymnasiums, shopping malls, cinemas and even a pond.
A new Sanlitun street, covering an area of more than 50,000 square meters,
will be established across the street from the pub street. All the buildings on
either side of the new street will be four-storied and not higher than 18
meters.
The old Sanlitun street is near 68 foreign missions in one of Beijing's two
main embassy districts and its first pub moved in in 1989 and by 1998 it had
been followed by more than 80 pubs. The street became a place where people from
around the world as well as young Beijingers could drink, sing, dance and chat.
In 2002, the year when latest statistics are available for, the pubs on the
street had a total annual sales revenue of more than 10 million yuan (US$1.23
million).
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