Beijing 798 is an art district.

Beijing 798 brings together galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, artists' studios, fashion stores, restaurants and bars, and many other cultural and artistic elements.

The galleries come from France, Italy, Britain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.

Beijing 798 has become the center of exhibition and display of culture and art in China, and has become an influential cultural and creative industry cluster at home and abroad.

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798 Factory, located in the area of Dashanzi, Chaoyang District, Beijing, used to be a mysterious military-industrial enterprise, and has been renting and remodeling vacant factories on a large scale since 2002, as a group of artists and cultural institutions have moved in here. An art community integrating art centers, galleries, artists' studios, design firms, advertising agencies and bars has gradually taken shape.

The factories in the 798 area were built in the early 1950s with Soviet aid and designed by German experts, with distinctive Bauhaus characteristics, emphasizing art in utility, and with tall and spacious houses, curved roofs and tilted glass windows, reflecting a unique flavor.

Many foreign scholars who have visited the city say that modern industrial buildings like 798 are rare and precious in the whole of Asia. The buildings here have witnessed a glorious history of Chinese industry, and the slogans and murals left on the walls from the "Cultural Revolution" period reveal a compelling sense of vicissitude after more than 50 years of wind and rain.　

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