Tiantongyuan


Tiantongyuan is a suburb in northern Beijing's Changping District. As of April 2008, it was said to have over 400,000 residents.. As of 2019, the population of Tiantongyuan had jumped to 700,000. Both Beijing Subway Line 5 and the BRT3 bus serve the area, as do many other Beijing public buses. There are two large bus hubs at Tiantongyuan North subway station and Tiantongyuan North neighborhood. Future expansion of the subway system will see Tiantongyuan acquire two new stations. Chinese cities, notably larger ones, contain these housing communities, xiaoqu, and Tiantongyuan is the largest in the nation. Tiantongyuan accounts for 3% of the population of Beijing, China's capital city.
Tiantongyuan North Station is the northern terminus of Line 5 of the bus system. There are two other Line 5 stations in Tiantongyuan, as well, namely Tiantongyuan and Tiantongyuan South. A subway journey from Tiantongyuan to Dongdan Station takes about 35 minutes.
Tiantongyuan has two shopping malls, namely 龙德广场 and BHG Mall. These malls are about a kilometer apart. 龙德 Plaza contains a branch of Carrefour.
Tiantongyuan is divided into Tiantongyuan West, Tiantongyuan East, Tiantongyuan North, Central Tiantongyuan, and Old Tiantongyuan ; each such neighborhood is further subdivided into sections 1, 2, and 3.
During the early decades of the People's Republic, the area had been the site of a labor camp for class enemies.