Wangjing subdistrict (
Chinese
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: 望京街道) is a
subdistrict office in
Chaoyang district, Beijing. It borders
Jiangtai area,
Jiuxianqiao subdistrict,
Nangao area,
Datun subdistrict Datun may also refer to:
* The '' datun'', the Indian name for teeth-cleaning twigs.
* The Datun Volcanoes, mountains in Taiwan
* Datun Sahib, a tree in Ladakh
See also
* Datsun
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,
Laiguangying
Laiguangying Area () is an area and township on the northern part of Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It borders Tiantong Yuannan, Tiantong Yuanbei Subdistricts and Beijia Town to the north, Sunhe and Cuigezhuang Townships to the east, Donghu ...
area, and
Taiyanggong
Taiyanggong Area () is an area and township on the north of Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It borders Wangjing and Datun Subdistricts to the north, Jiangtai Township to the east, Maizidian, Zuojiazhuang and Xiangheyuan Subdistricts to ...
area.
Wangjing is a self-contained and multifunctional urban area that was newly developed in the northeast of central Beijing. It is under the jurisdiction of the
Chaoyang District of Beijing, and in 2020 it has a population of 146,220. In recent years, Wangjing is developing into a residential area with a diverse population, an area of new companies, and an area that gathers corporate headquarter.
TOP500 companies, international businesses, as well as scientific research industries are building their offices in Wangjing.
History
Origin of the Name
Wangjing has been the name for the area for at least nearly a thousand years of history. There are many provenances of how Wangjing was named that can be found in classical books and folklore.
One common resource is that
Shen Kuo (1031-1095 AD) who is a scientist in the
Northern Song Dynasty
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mentioned Wangjing in his book,
Dream Pool Essays. He depicts that “there is a Wangjing Dun in the northeast of Beijing City.”
Another widely agreed reference is that the
Qing Emperor,
Qianlong
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, passed through Wangjing and saw the
Dongzhihmen when he looked in the direction of the Beijing City. Qianlong was very happy and named this location Wangjing which means looking out to Beijing City. As the result, two villages in this area accepted the name
Dawangjing Village and
Xiaowangjing Village.
Development
Since the mid-1980s, most of the villages clusters on the west side of the
Dawangjing Village and
Xiaowangjing Village, such as Nanhu, Donghu, Houzhuang, and Xibanfang, have been transformed into residential areas such as the Huajiadi neighborhood and Wangjing New Town neighborhood. These residential areas established the spatial pattern of today's Wangjing. In 1997, the developer invited 200 Koreans to live in the Wangjing New Town neighborhood when the first phase of Wangjing New Town was ready to move in.
In 2000, the Small Wangjing Village, located in the core of the planned area, began to transform into high-end office buildings, shopping malls, and residential buildings. In 2004, some of the
TOP500
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companies (
Motorola
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,
Nortel Networks
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, and
Siemens) announced to set up headquarters in Wangjing. In 2007 and 2008, the 123-meter-high
Siemens Building and the 140-meter-high Fangheng International Center were completed successively, setting a new height record for the buildings in Wangjing.
In April 2009, the Dawangjing Village officially launched the old village reconstruction project. In December 2009, the Detailed Regulatory Planning of the Dawangjing Business District was approved by Beijing Municipal Government. In 2011, the Dawangjing Business District was listed as one of the ten key development bases of
Chaoyang District during the
12th Five-Year Plan period. Then it was named Dawangjing Science and Technology Business Innovation Zone.
Koreatown
Wangjing, a very important residential zone in the northeast of Beijing, has a large number of high-rise apartments built from the mid-1990s onwards. Due to a large number of
South Korea
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n residents, Wangjing has also become known as Beijing's
Koreatown
A Koreatown ( Korean: 코리아타운), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula.
History
Koreatowns as an East Asian ethnic enclave have ...
. More than 70,000 South Koreans were living in the neighborhood in 2007. From 2008 to 2017, the Korean population in Wangjing had decreased due to the economic crisis which causes higher rates of living expenses.
Administrative Divisions
As of 2021, there are 25
communities within the subdistrict:
Geography
Location
Wangjing overlaps with the Wangjing sub-district office’s area of responsibility. It includes the East Lake sub-district office and part of the Cuigezhuang Township. It is a pentagonal and diamond-shaped area surrounded by the
fourth Ring Road, the Beijing-Chengde Expressway, the
fifth Ring Road
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, and the
Airport Expressway. In a broad sense, it includes Jiuxianqiao, Taiyanggong, Laiguangying, and Dongba. Wangjing is about 10 kilometers away from both the
Beijing Capital International Airport
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and the center of The city (
Tiananmen Square
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). It is located in the center of the six high-end functional areas planned and constructed in Beijing since the
11th Five-Year Plan.
Environment
![Wangjing_river](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Wangjing_river.jpg)
Wangjing area mainly features plain topography. In the north, the Beixiao River runs from west to east. There are mounds in the east which are probably the Wangjing Dun that was used for military affairs in the
Ming Dynasty
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. On the west and south, there are more than ten connected parks and green spaces.
Layout
The urban planning function of Wangjing in the early stage divided Wangjing into two parts which are the south part and the north part. The south part is called
Wangjing New Town.
Wangjing New Town is a comprehensive area with public facilities and residential buildings. The north part is named
Wangjing Science and Technology Industrial Park which later forms the main body of East Lake Street. Overall, Wangjing can be roughly divided into four blocks with different characteristics which are businesses in the east, living in the west, education in the south, and science in the north.
Demographics
According to the 2010
census
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, the resident population of Wangjing is about 300,000, and there are a large number of residents in the entertainment industry, enterprise managers, employees of foreign companies, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and international businessmen. Wangjing has a large proportion of the middle class and younger age population.
As of 2010, many
South Korea
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ns moving to Beijing had settled in Wangjing. Most South Korean business people and their families in Beijing live in Wangjing.
Hyejin Kim, the author of ''
International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict: Koreans in China'', wrote that the growth of Wangjing has eclipsed
Wudaokou
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in
Haidian District
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It is 431 square km in ar ...
as a Korean area.
[Kim, Hyejin]
unstated (PT146)
on Google Books
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. "Since the announcement of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, South Koreans have eagerly begun to buy newly built apartments."
Economy
Science and technology
![Alibaba Building at Wangjing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Alibaba_Building_at_Wangjing.jpg)
Wangjing has a high concentration of industrial, scientific, and technological innovation companies. The former Wangjing Science and Technology Industrial Park has now expanded to the east and south of Wangjing and is collectively known as the West District of Electronic City. Its goal and mission are to establish China's Mobile Valley. In October 2012, the State Council approved that the West District of Electronics City, including Dawangjing Business District, could be included in the
Zhongguancun
Zhongguancun () is a major technology hub in Haidian District, Beijing, China.
Zhongguancun occupies a band between the northwestern Third Ring Road and the northwestern Fourth Ring Road, in the northwestern part of Beijing. Zhongguancun is ...
National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Dawangjing Business District is positioned as an internationally influential science and technology business innovation zone, a gathering place for science and technology business activities, a gathering place for international science and technology companies, as well as an assembling place for modern service industry headquarters.
Technology center
![POSCO Center in Beijing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/POSCO_Center_in_Beijing.jpg)
Wangjing houses many technology companies, both small startup companies, as well as national, and large international corporations. Examples include:
*
Wangjing Science and Technology Park Wangjing may refer to several places:
China
*Wangjing, Beijing (望京), a major residential, technological and business area in Beijing
*Wangjing SOHO, a tower complex in Beijing
* Wangjing, Tang County (王京镇), town in Tang County, Baoding, H ...
, houses mainly technology
startup companies
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.
* A major office of
China Telecom
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* The Chinese headquarters of
Siemens Ltd. China
* The Chinese headquarters of
Caterpillar Inc.
* The Chinese headquarters of
Daimler AG
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*
Posco
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China headquarters
*
Nestle Greater China Headquarters
*
MOTOROLA
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Mobility Technology China headquarters
*
MOTOROLA
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Systems China headquarters
*
Agilent
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China Headquarters
*
Ericsson
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China Headquarters
*
Microsoft
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China Headquarters
*
Caterpillar China headquarters
*
Schneider Electric
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China headquarters
*
SONY
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Mobile Global Operations Center, global research and development center
Transportation
The west side of Wangjing is building the Wangjing West Transportation Hub. It is one of the 13 transportation hubs planned in Beijing. It is located at the southeast corner of the Jingcheng intersection and Huguang Middle Street in
Chaoyang District. It provides transportation services for Beijing
subway Line 13,
Line 15, and
Line 17. It is also in service of managing ground public transits, taxis, bicycles, and shuttles to
Shunyi
Shunyi District () is an administrative district of Beijing, located to the northeast of the city's urban core. As of 2014, the population of the district is around 983,000, of which approximately 601,000 have local residency permits. The Beiji ...
,
Huairou
Huairou District () is situated in northern Beijing about from the city center (about a 1½ to 2 hour drive).
History
In 1995 during the United Nation's 4th World's Women Conference in Beijing, the Civil Society community was forced to meet in t ...
,
Miyun, and
central Beijing.
Architecture
Wangjing SOHO
Wangjing SOHO () is a complex of three curvilinear asymmetric skyscrapers in Wangjing in Beijing, China, between central Beijing and Beijing Capital International Airport. The towers contain both office and retail space. Originally the SOHO w ...
stands halfway between
Beijing Capital International Airport
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and the city center. Designed by
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...
, the three towers, 387, 416, and 656 (200m) feet tall, are surrounded by a 196,850-square-foot public park in Wangjing, a tech business hub in northeast Beijing. It was commissioned by
SOHO China.
Education
![Beijing No](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Beijing_No._94_Middle_School_%2820220308163954%29.jpg)
There are primary schools, middle schools, and universities in Wangjing.
Primary schools, middle schools, and high schools
*
Beijing No.80 High School (the only Beacon high school located in Chaoyang District)
*
The Affiliated High School to UIBE (Formerly
Beijing No. 94 Middle School)
*
Beijing World Youth Academy (BWYA)
*
Korean International School in Beijing
The Korean International School in Beijing (KISB, ko, 북경한국국제학교, ) is an international school in Wangjing, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It serves grades 1–12. It has instruction in Korean, Chinese, and English.
The school was e ...
(KISB)
* Wangjing Experimental School of Branch of Beijing
Chen Jinglun Middle school
Universities
*
China Central Academy of Fine Arts
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*
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
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*
Beijing Youth Politics College
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Civil Aviation Management Institute of China (CAMIC)
*
Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences For the succeeding university, please see University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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* Wangjing Teaching Department, College of Continuing Education,
Beijing Language and Culture University
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See also
*
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
External links
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