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Ring roads of Beijing
Beijing possesses multiple ring roads.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, the Japanese army occupied Peking city and renamed it ‘Beijing’. The 1938 Beijing Urban Plan Outline was compiled soon after by the Japanese, emphasizing the construction of the West and East sides outside the old city of Peking, and also proposing the concept of a ‘ring-and-radial’ road layout.
During the 8 years that the Japanese army occupied Peking City, they managed to construct extensions of Chang’an Avenue, thereby facilitating transportation between new commercial districts in the western and eastern suburbs.
In the 1950s, the Chinese government invited the Soviet Union to send a team of 9 urban planning experts to assist Beijing in formulating its urban plan. Through the 5 years from 1953-1958 of cooperation, they put together three versions of Beijing’s Overall Urban Development Plan, adjusting the four radial routes and five ring roads. During this time, Beijing experienced a large-scale urban construction under the instruction of Beijing’s Overall Urban Development Plan, and the ‘ring-and-radial’ road network layout was thus finalized. Beijing city did not experience any major urban adjustment after 1958.
The First Ring Road was formed by widening and renovating existing roads within Beijing’s old city. Its construction was gradually finalized along with the process of old-city reconstruction. Several subway lines were built beneath this ring road, which are now today’s Beijing Subway Lines 4, 5, and 7.
The Second Ring Road, in the 1953-1958 editions of Beijing’s overall urban development plan, it was originally designed to follow the outer edge of the city wall, running along the moat. In 1969, under wartime conditions, the city walls were demolished for subway construction. Later, an urban expressway (now the second ring road) was built above the subway, and was completed and fully functional in September 1992. It became not only Beijing’s first urban ring expressway but also China’s first fully enclosed and signal-free urban ring road.
The Third Ring Road was the first ring road to begin construction. Its eastern, southern, and northern sections were completed successively during 1958-1960. However, the western segment—passing through Yuyuantan Park—was difficult to build and remained unfinished for years. In the early 1980s, the western section was rerouted westward, and after numerous adjustments, the entire ring was officially completed and operated as an expressway in 1994.
The Fourth Ring Road began construction before the 1990 Asian Olympics in Beijing and was fully opened to traffic in 2001.
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Ring roads of Beijing
Beijing possesses multiple ring roads.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, the Japanese army occupied Peking city and renamed it ‘Beijing’. The 1938 Beijing Urban Plan Outline was compiled soon after by the Japanese, emphasizing the construction of the West and East sides outside the old city of Peking, and also proposing the concept of a ‘ring-and-radial’ road layout.
During the 8 years that the Japanese army occupied Peking City, they managed to construct extensions of Chang’an Avenue, thereby facilitating transportation between new commercial districts in the western and eastern suburbs.
In the 1950s, the Chinese government invited the Soviet Union to send a team of 9 urban planning experts to assist Beijing in formulating its urban plan. Through the 5 years from 1953-1958 of cooperation, they put together three versions of Beijing’s Overall Urban Development Plan, adjusting the four radial routes and five ring roads. During this time, Beijing experienced a large-scale urban construction under the instruction of Beijing’s Overall Urban Development Plan, and the ‘ring-and-radial’ road network layout was thus finalized. Beijing city did not experience any major urban adjustment after 1958.
The First Ring Road was formed by widening and renovating existing roads within Beijing’s old city. Its construction was gradually finalized along with the process of old-city reconstruction. Several subway lines were built beneath this ring road, which are now today’s Beijing Subway Lines 4, 5, and 7.
The Second Ring Road, in the 1953-1958 editions of Beijing’s overall urban development plan, it was originally designed to follow the outer edge of the city wall, running along the moat. In 1969, under wartime conditions, the city walls were demolished for subway construction. Later, an urban expressway (now the second ring road) was built above the subway, and was completed and fully functional in September 1992. It became not only Beijing’s first urban ring expressway but also China’s first fully enclosed and signal-free urban ring road.
The Third Ring Road was the first ring road to begin construction. Its eastern, southern, and northern sections were completed successively during 1958-1960. However, the western segment—passing through Yuyuantan Park—was difficult to build and remained unfinished for years. In the early 1980s, the western section was rerouted westward, and after numerous adjustments, the entire ring was officially completed and operated as an expressway in 1994.
The Fourth Ring Road began construction before the 1990 Asian Olympics in Beijing and was fully opened to traffic in 2001.