Hepingli is a residential neighborhood in Dongcheng District

Dongcheng District, Beijing

Dongcheng District is an urban district in Beijing covering the eastern half of Beijing's urban core. It is 24.7 square kilometres in area and has a population of 535,558 . Dongcheng District covers several important parts of Beijing...

, Beijing

Beijing

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, China. It is situated in the northeastern part of the city between the northern 2nd Ring Road

2nd Ring Road (Beijing)

Encircling the centre of Beijing, the 2nd Ring Road is just a few kilometres away from the city centre and is a convenient alternative road to avoid congestion there. One can divide the road into two parts: the original ring road , and the newly extended ring road...

 and the northern 3rd Ring Road. The neighborhood is bordered by Andingmen Waidajie to the west and Hepingli Dongjie to the east. Most of the neighborhood is located in Chaoyang District

Chaoyang District, Beijing

Chaoyang District is a district of Beijing, China.Chaoyang is home to the majority of Beijing's many foreign embassies, the well-known Sanlitun bar street, as well as Beijing's growing CBD. The Olympic Park, built for the 2008 Summer Olympics, is also in Chaoyang...

. Its southern fringe around the Temple of Earth

Temple of Earth

The Temple of the Earth in Beijing, China, is located in the northern part of central Beijing, around the Andingmen area and just outside of Beijing's second ring road. It is also located just a few hundred yards north of Yonghe Temple...

 is in Dongcheng District.

Officially, Hepingli is governed as a single subdistrict

Subdistrict (China)

The subdistrict , is one of the smallest political divisions of China. It is a form of township-level division which is typically part of a larger urban area, as opposed to a discrete town surrounded by rural areas, or a rural townships known as a xiang .In general, urban areas are divided into...

, Hepingli Subdistrict (和平里街道), which comprises approximately 14 residential areas (社区) or zones. Most apartment buildings were built in the 1950s to 1960s. In the early 2000s, most buildings were repainted.

History and Name

Heplingli, meaning “a place of peace”, was named in 1952 during the Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference

Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference

The Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference was held in Beijing, China from October 2-12, 1952. Delegates from dozens of countries attended the conference, which including a number of speeches and opening remarks by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong....

 which was held in Beijing.

Transportation

Hepingli is served by Lines 5

Line 5, Beijing Subway

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 and 13

Line 13, Beijing Subway

Line 13 of the Beijing Subway , also known as the CityRail Line , is a metro line that serves the northern suburbs of Beijing. On a map, Line 13's route is shaped like an inverted U that arcs north of the city and connects residential suburbs in Haidian, Changping and Chaoyang Districts with the...

 of the Beijing Subway

Beijing Subway

The Beijing Subway is a rapid transit rail network that serves the urban and suburban districts of Beijing municipality. It is owned by the city of Beijing and has two operators, the wholly state owned Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp., which operates 12 lines, and the Beijing MTR...

. Line 5 traverses the neighborhood from north to south with stops at Heping West Bridge

Hepingxiqiao Station

Hepingxiqiao Station is a station on Line 5 of the Beijing Subway.-Station layout:...

 and Hepingli Beijie

Hepingli Beijie Station

Hepingli Beijie Station is a station on Line 5 of the Beijing Subway....

. Line 13 stops near eastern Hepingli at Liufang

Liufang Station

' is a station on Line 13 of the Beijing Subway in China....

.

Main city bus routes through Hepingli include 13, 18, 62, 75, 104, 104快, 108, 116, 117, 119, 124, 125, 406, 407 and 430.

The Heping West and East Bridges on the 3rd Ring Road are named after Heplingli. The Hepingli Railway Station is now in disuse. The area will soon have an expressway link—the Jingcheng Expressway

Jingcheng Expressway

The Jingcheng Motorway is a motorway in China which links Beijing to Chengde in Hebei province. The total length is 210 kilometres.It is a new motorway linking the northeastern portion of the 3rd Ring Road with the north and northeastern outlying regions of Beijing municipality...

 is expected to connect to Hepingli and Taiyanggong.