The essence of old Beijing, the area around the original Imperial City with the Forbidden City as its center, is listed a preserved area under state's protection. Because of this, the east-west axis of new Beijing could not pass through it to meet with the north-south axis but extend to the right and left before Tiananmen Rostrum, which henceforth, became the main east-west line of Beijing.
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