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The 2024 Competition for the Transmission and Promotion of Beijing Central Axis was launched at the Capital Museum on Sunday. The event aims to inject fresh vitality, create new scenes, and achieve innovative outcomes for the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural heritage along the Beijing Central Axis.
First created in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the Beijing Central Axis, or Zhongzhouxian, stretches 7.8 kilometers between the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and the Drum Tower and Bell Tower in the north.
First created in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the Beijing Central Axis, or Zhongzhouxian, stretches 7.8 kilometers between the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and the Drum Tower and Bell Tower in the north.
Chinese authorities have planned to recommend the Beijing Central Axis as China's 2024 world cultural heritage application project. It was included on the preliminary list of China's world cultural heritage sites in 2012. (Xinhua/Mu Wenchun)
In Beijing, there is a north-south axis known as the Beijing Central Axis, or Zhongzhouxian, running through the city. First created in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the 7.8-kilometer central axis serves the function of a "book spine", forming a unique Beijing city pattern of bilateral symmetry and solemnity. It stretches…