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Sanlitun's bar streets are well known throughout Beijing. Withstanding several threats to be closed down, it is now fashionable with the expat community, though curiously not with the Chinese community. Soft drinks, hard drinks and an entertainment variety (live bands, etc...) are commonplace in most bars. Bars run from the northern street through a (very busy) crossing with Gongti North Road to a southern street, which has fewer bars and is relatively more laid back. Sanlitun only became a hub of bars in the mid-1990s. Sanlitun's position when the People's Republic of China was founded was that of an embassy quarter, and it still remains an embassy area. The area was called Sanlitun to designate its location from Dongzhimen gate. Tun, like dian (e.g. Shibalidian), means no more than "locality". San li means "three li", and a li was 0.5 km -- thus, Sanlitun was 1.5 km away from Dongzhimen Gate. Sanlitun's bar business grew when, along with the reforms of the late 1970s and early 1980s, bar serving at first to expats and later to locals as well started to grow, first in international hotels, and then outside of hotels as well. Category:Beijing This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Sanlitun".
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