Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 31 (Reporter Du Yan) Beijing Sanlitun Bar Street, which has developed since the 1980s and 1990s, will be closed?

Today, the reporter learned from Sanlitun Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing that Bar Street is about to launch a project to eliminate hidden dangers in buildings. In the future, the Bar Street brand will continue to be retained, and more new formats such as light food and coffee will be introduced to meet more consumer demand.

At the same time, the transformation has been started to create a slow-moving friendly block. In the future, citizens can walk all the way from Chaoyang North Road to the banks of Liangma River.

　　Sanlitun is a famous foreign-related area in Beijing, where embassies in China, foreign-related hotels, foreign business houses, and diplomatic apartments gather.

Adjacent to the embassy area, Bar Street is located on Sanlitun Road, with a total length of 260 meters and an area of ​​1648 square meters.

In the 1980s and 1990s, with the emergence of bars, this little-known ordinary street gradually developed into a famous bar street at home and abroad.

According to data, foreigners who visited Sanlitun Bar Street earlier accounted for more than 95%, and later customers gradually expanded to people in the literary and art circles, ordinary people and tourists to Beijing.

　　This bar street has subtly affected the surrounding area, should it be shut down?

Wei Lei, deputy director of the Sanlitun Sub-district Office in Chaoyang District, Beijing, introduced on the 31st that in accordance with the special rectification work requirements for self-built houses in the urban area, a third-party professional organization conducted a comprehensive appraisal of the safety status of the houses on Bar Street. The safety is no longer suitable for business operation, which seriously affects the overall safety. Immediate blanking and anti-seismic reinforcement are required. For this reason, Sanlitun Sub-district has launched the evacuation of the merchants on Bar Street. The biggest purpose is to eliminate potential safety hazards.

　　Wei Lei said that Bar Street is popular with citizens and tourists, and the brand of Bar Street will continue to be retained in the future.

　　"The bar street has become a kind of urban memory and cultural symbol. It will not be shut down, but will be kept." Sun Shuguang, secretary of the Sanlitun Street Working Committee, said that after eliminating potential safety hazards, the houses along the street will be designed in a unified style with the landscape of Sanlitun Road.

In the future, Bar Street will focus on enriching the diversity of business formats on the basis of maintaining a unique brand personality. Bars will be matched with coffee, bookstores, light catering and other business formats to enrich life consumption scenes and improve the quality of life.

　　In recent years, Sanlitun has successively carried out the renovation of "dirty streets" (now Sanlitun West Street), the expansion of the Taikoo Li North District, and the renovation of Yaxiu, becoming an important bearing area for Beijing to build an international consumption center city.

　　Today, on the west side of Bar Street is the famous fashion landmark in Beijing—Sanlitun Taikoo Li. The Sanlitun Road where it is located leads directly to Chaoyang North Road in the south and Liangmahe South Road in the north.

The reporter learned that in February 2023, Chaoyang District will simultaneously carry out the renovation and upgrading plan and the construction of the slow traffic system on Sanlitun Road to create a slow traffic friendly block and connect the CBD, Lufthansa, Blue Harbor and other business districts.

　　According to the "Beijing Special Plan for the Layout of Commercial Consumption Space" released at the end of November 2022, Beijing will create four international consumer experience areas, including Wangfujing×Xidan×Qianmen, CBD×Sanlitun, Universal Studios×Grand Canal, and Lize× Capital New Business District.

Among them, the CBD×Sanlitun International Consumption Experience Zone will center on the CBD and Sanlitun Urban Consumption Center, which are internationally renowned, attractive to consumers, and have strong commercial vitality, linking up with the surrounding Lufthansa-Landang, and radiating vigorous consumption in surrounding areas such as Shuangjing and Dongzhimen. Create an international consumer experience area with high fashion charm and strong consumption atmosphere, accelerate the formation of a 100 billion-scale commercial consumption cluster, lead the differentiated and characteristic development of all types of commercial consumption spaces at all levels, and build a group of international characteristics It will be a consumer landmark with high-quality experience, comprehensively improve the regional consumption level, and enhance the international reputation and comprehensive competitiveness of Beijing's consumption.

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