Local Beijing 798 Art Zone is located, is a former East German aid construction of the "Beijing North China wireless joint equipment factory", that is, 718 Joint Factory. 718 joint plant in 1952 began construction, civil construction began in 1954, started production in October 1957.

718 Joint Factory is responsible for building design, construction by the German Dessau, a construction agency, institution building and this year's Bauhaus school in the same city, both in architectural spirits is common. Its main features are: meeting the practical requirements; bringing the technical and aesthetic properties of new materials and new structures; modeling Jian Jie, flexible and diverse composition. This school was later called Bauhaus.

April 1964 superiors withdrew 718 joint factory establishment, set up a factory 706, 707, 718, 797, 798 plants and 751 plants. In December 2000, the original 700 plants, 706 plants, 707, 718, 797, 798 and six reorganized and incorporated into Beijing Seven Star Huadian Science and Technology Group, LLC. In line with planning the transformation of Dashanzi area, the Group of Seven industrial part will move out, move out in order to effectively utilize industry spare factories, this part of the Group of Seven idle factory buildings for rent. Because many advantages park orderly planning, convenient traffic, unique style of Bauhaus architecture, many art organizations and artists came to rent the vacant plants and transformed, and gradually formed a set of galleries, art studios, multicultural space culture, fashion shops, in one. Since the earliest art organizations and artists stationed in the region of the original 798 factory, this place was named as Beijing 798 Art Zone.

Mottled red brick walls, the patchwork of industrial plants, crisscross pipelines, slogans of different era wall still preserved. In uniform on the road workers and visitors to dress stylish side by side, history and reality, industry and art perfectly fit together, here is the Beijing 798 Art District. This collection of galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, artists' studios, fashion shops, restaurants and many other cultural and artistic elements. As of January 2008, he settled in Beijing 798 Art District gallery, more than 400 artists' private studios, animation, film and television media, publishing, design consulting and other cultural institutions, from France, Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Australia, Korea, China, China Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and other countries and regions. It has become the Chinese culture and art exhibition, exhibition center, a cultural and creative industries concentrated area home and abroad influential.

Traffic Guide

Scenic Area Address: Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 798 Art District

Car lines: within Beijing can take Metro Line 2 to Dongzhimen station, or take the subway Line 13 to the Wangjing West Station, and back to the bus 401,420,405,909,955,991,988 Road intersection south to Dashanzi

Car lines: Sanyuanqiao or quaternary bridge Airport Expressway, exit at Dashanzi, came out is a five fork in the road, turn right there on Jiuxianqiao Road, reaching back to turn around the island Dashanzi Jiuxianqiao Road, traveling back to 798 factory door.