In the northeast corner of Beijing, there is an art district named after a factory built in the 1950s, which is the 798 Art District. It is located in Dashanzi District, Jiuxianqiao Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, so it is also called Dashanzi Art District (abbreviated as DAD－Dashanzi Art District). It was originally the old factory site of the former state-owned 798 factory and other electronic industries. This area starts from Jiuxianqiao Road in the west, beijing-baotou railway in the east, Jiuxianqiao North Road in the north and jiang tai in the south, covering an area of more than 600,000 square meters.
At present, this factory, called 798 Art Zone, is the regional scope of six factories, including 706, 707, 7 18, 75 1, 797 and 798, which belonged to the former Ministry of Electronic Industry. From the end of 1950s to 1964, this area was once called "7 18 Joint Factory", which was called "State-owned Beijing North China Radio Equipment Joint Factory". The six factories mentioned in the paper are branches of the joint factory. 1964, these six factories began to operate independently, and changed from a joint factory to six factories until 200 1 year. In 200 1 year, five factories except 75 1 factory, Huarong Asset Company (holding company) and 75 1 factory jointly formed Qixing Huadian Group to manage this area in a unified way.
From 200 1 year, artists from around Beijing and outside Beijing began to gather in 798 factory, and they found the unique advantages of this place for artistic work with their unique eyes. They make full use of the style of the original factory building (Bauhaus architectural style in Germany), slightly decorate and decorate it, and become a distinctive art exhibition and creative space. Nowadays, 798 has attracted extensive attention from domestic and foreign media and the public, and has become a new landmark of Beijing urban culture.