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Beijing to expand Sanlitun pub street
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-08-24 16:38
Foreigners and young Beijingers looking for a night out in the Chinese
capital may have a more enjoyable time than just drinking and dancing at the
famous Sanlitun pub street in the future.
The Beijing municipal government has decided to enlarge and enrich the
functions of the street, where people will also have easy access to more vivid
and colorful recreation centers, such as gymnasiums, shopping malls, cinemas and
even find a pond for anchoring.
A new Sanlitun street, with an area of more than 50,000 square meters, will
be established, across the old pub street across the 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, with a reach of 68 foreign missions inone of
Beijing's two leading embassy districts, absorbed the firstpub in 1989 and by
1998, the street had housed more than 80 pubs, where people from around the
world as well as young Beijingers sing, dance and chat at night.
It is estimated that pubs in the street have a total annual sales volume of
more than 10 million yuan (about 1.2 million US dollars) by 2002, according to
the latest statistics available.
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