South Zhongzhou Road is a road lying on the central axis of Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

. It runs from Yongdingmen

Yongdingmen

Yongdingmen was the former front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall. Originally built in 1553, it was torn down in the 1950s to make way for the new road system in Beijing. In 2005, the Yongdingmen was reconstructed at the site of the old city gate...

 Bridge on the southern 2nd Ring Road through to the southern 5th Ring Road.

There is a wide express bus lane on the road, the first in Beijing.

South Zhongzhou Road forms the start of China National Highway 104

China National Highway 104

China National Highway 104 runs from Beijing to Fuzhou via Jinan, Xuzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Taizhou.It runs to approximately 2,390 km, and, on a map, runs southeast towards Nanjing and Hangzhou before turning south-southwest at Taizhou....

, which diverts southeast after the intersection with the 4th Ring Road.