Tiantongyuan
Tiantongyuan is a resident area in northern Beijing's Changping District, under the administration of Tiantongyuanbei and Tiantongyuannan Subdistricts. 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, making it the largest Xiaoqu in China, and the suburb accounts for 3% of the population of Beijing.
Tiantongyuan is divided into Tiantongxiyuan, Tiantongdongyuan, Tiantongbeiyuan, Tiantongzhongyuan, 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 was the site of a labor camp for class enemies.
Shopping
Tiantongyuan has two shopping malls, namely Longde Plaza and BHG Mall Tiantongyuan Shopping Center. These malls are about a kilometer apart. Longde Plaza contains a branch of Carrefour.Transport
Both Beijing Subway Line 5 and the BRT3 bus serve the area, as do many other Beijing public buses. There are transport hubs at Tiantongyuan North subway station, in Tiantongyuanbei Subdistrict.Tiantongyuan North is the northern terminus of Line 5 of the Beijing subway system. There are two other Line 5 stations in Tiantongyuan, namely Tiantongyuan and Tiantongyuan South. A subway journey from Tiantongyuan to Dongdan takes about 35 minutes. A fourth subway station, Tiantongyuandong station on Line 17, opened on 30 December 2023, providing direct access to Sanlitun. Future expansion of the subway system will see Tiantongyuan acquire one new station, Taipingzhuang station, located on Line 18 between Tiantongyuan station and Tiantongyuandong station.