The total length of Dongjiaomin Lane is 1552 meters. It starts from Tiananmen Square East Road in the west and ends at Chongwenmen Inner Street in the east. In modern times, it used to be a famous embassy area. After the Second Opium War in 1860, Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, Belgium and other countries set up embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane, and Dongjiaomin Lane was renamed Embassy Street. After 1949, Dongjiaomin Lane was still used as the embassy area.