Beijing Classic Car Museum

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2021-10-18

The Beijing Classic Car Museum is located in Yangsong Town, Huairou District, Beijing, covering an area of 6,500 sqm, with an exhibition hall area of 3,500 sqm. It is adjacent to the State Production Base of China Film Group Corporation, the capital of film and television production in China. The State Production Base was inaugurated on July 30, 2008, and hundreds of films and TV dramas are shot there every year.

The Beijing Classic Car Museum houses more than 160 antique and classic cars, including almost all models of Chinese-built cars from the early period, as well as some foreign models. The representative works of the automobile industry in the early period of the founding of the People's Republic of China are the Dongfanghong brand sedans and the first generation of 210 military off-road vehicles produced by BAIC, the Shanghai automobile series produced by SAIC such as the Shanghai brand parade cars, the first generation of Shanghai Phoenix brand sedans, and Shanghai 58-I vehicles, and the Hongqi sedan series produced by FAW, such as Hongqi brand parade cars and the first generation of Hongqi brand sedans. It also exhibits classic models of the American Dodge brand, the German Benz brand, the French Citroen brand, the British Morris brand, and the ZIS brand of the former Soviet Union. It collects classic and vintage cars from China and abroad, including the cars of the revolutionists Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Peng Zhen, Li Xiannian, and Wu Guixian, as well as the famous Anti-Japanese War generals Fu Zuoyi and Claire Lee Chennault. Some collections are rare and unobtainable brands in China and even the world. The museum is invaluable as it records the development of the Chinese and global automobile industry.

(Note: Content source is from Visitbeijing.com.cn.)


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