Beijing Areas

After living and working around the Shuangjing area for three years, I'm finally starting to feel like our 'hood is shaping up into a fantastic area for family life.

Mind you, I use the geographic term loosely - "Shuangjing" is technically a bridge south of Guomao on the east Third Ring Road - but most expats seem to use it as a blanket term for the entire area running south of the Tonghui River/Jianwai Soho complex and east to Dawang Qiao/Dawang Lu. The southern border is essentially the south side of Guangqumennei and Guangqumenwai Dajie, which intersects Shuangjing Qiao itself.

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