The Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is designed to introduce the long history of the immortal city of Beijing, display the great achievements of the modern urban planning and development, and exhibit the splendid future of Beijing's urban development. The 16,000 square-meter floor space is distributed on 4 floor levels in the Hall, with 8,000 square meters for exhibits. On the second floor there is a bronze relief sculpture of The Old City of Beijing is 10-meter high and 9-meter wide with a scale of 1:1,000. It fully depicts the overall layout and characteristics of Beijing in 1949. The sculpture features more than 118,000 houses and 60,000 trees and a large number of alleys, lakes and rivers. The third floor features the evolution of the old city of Beijing with a large amount of photos, old maps, wells of the Han Dynasty and gate frusta and column heads of the Qing Dynasty, as well as models of courtyard houses and various gateways. The transformation of Beijing is traced from its primitive stage to the emergence of a city and eventually to a big metropolis and capital of a multi-nation state, as well as through the cultural and city planning characteristics. On the forth floor there is a 3-D film cinema which covers a floor area of 400 square meters with a 120-degree arc screen and is able to show wide-screen movies and virtual-reality city animations. Available movies now include (1) The Immortal City, a 10-minute film about the 850-year history of Beijing as a capital city; (2) The New Beijing, a 3-D film lasting about 6 minutes, featuring current achievements in the development of Beijing and the progress towards 2008. Address: No 20, East Qianmen Avenue, Chongwen Disrict.
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Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is a well known patriotism educational center in Beijing. It is located at south eastern side Tiananmen Square and officially opened to public in September of 2004. It is an exhibition hall that shows the civil development history as well as current situation of Beijing and at the same time promotes the future planning of Beijing. In other word, this is the best destination for you to know the story of past, present and future of Beijing.
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The Beijing City Planning Exhibition Hall is basically introduced the several large scale city planning of Beijing including the planning for 18 districts as well as the planning for Economy and Technology Development Area in Beijing. Moreover, the targeted planning of each district as well as their percentage of accomplishment is also clearly shown in the exhibition.
On top of that, there are many precious artworks display within the exhibition too. For example, a sculpture named “Beijing Wan (Beijing Bay)” which is made at the ratio of 1:60000 of the real topography of Beijing and another bronze sculpture named “Beijing Old Town” which fully visualized the structure of Beijing city in year 1949 are both most significant artwork of this exhibition hall. So, if you wish to know the details of development history of Beijing, then this is the best place for you to find out the answer. There is no other place which can offer you with exact answer other than this one.