Beijing

Located in northern China, Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China. Beijing stands for “northern capital.” The city has formally been known as Peking. Over 17 million people live in the greater Beijing area.

The common language of Beijing is standard Mandarin. Beijing hotels offer cool accommodations during summertime’s hot humid weather. Beijing winters produce a cold, windy, dry climate.


Beijing is most recognized as the political, cultural and educational hub of the People’s Republic of China. Beijing is known for its cultural arts, temples, palaces, and renowned universities. The Great Wall of China reaches along northern Beijing. Central Beijing is where the ‘Forbidden City’ and Tian’anmen Square can be found.

Visitors to Beijing discover the uniqueness of this capital city in the People’s Republic of China. It is strongly advised that you purchase, or study a Beijing travel guide before departing on your trip.  People booking a luxury vacation in Beijing eat at world-renowned restaurants and sleep at beautiful luxury hotels.

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• GEO Monitor IPO Newsflash: Beijing Orient Landscape Co. Ltd. – A share

  
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  Beijing Orient Landscape made its debut on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange… If you wish to view the entire report, visit us at GEO Monitor or contact us This report is provided as part of IIR Group Ltd.’s GEO (Global Equity Offerings) Monitor service, which tracks global IPO activity. Our GEO Monitor is the ...
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• Saab failure another dent in China’s auto dreams - MoneyControl.com

  
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  Saab failure another dent in China’s auto dreams - MoneyControl.com China’s automakers may dominate their home market, now the world’s largest, but the collapse of the sale of Saab to a Chinese-backed group shows it will be a bumpy ride for them to build a global profile. Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Wariner reclaims lead in men’s 400m in Paris

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 148
  Wariner and Merritt at the Golden League in Paris(Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images) Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, July 21) — Jeremy Wariner, Athens 2004 Olympic gold medallist, reasserted his dominance with a 43.86-second finish in the men’s 400m at the AF Golden League in Paris on July 18. ...
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• Tibetan PM in-exile Rinpoche alleges China of breeding militants

  
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  Dharamshala, Nov.27 (ANI): Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche on Friday blamed China of emerging as a training ground for the militants.Addressing a two-day workshop of the 115th session of Indian Federation of Working Journalists in Dharamsala, Rinpoche said, many Maoists go to China, get training, ...
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• The Friday Five: Pre-Mature Death Bells For Federer

  
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  Roger Federer is still the king By Maud Watson Return of the King – It seems like only yesterday a sobbing Australian Open finalist Roger Federer had the critics convinced that his star was fading fast.  But after an amazing summer that saw him complete the career Grand Slam as well as break Pete Sampras’ ...
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• Slogans on Tiananmen Gate

  
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  Tiananmen at night Online magazine Slate s Daniel Gross, currently traveling through China, introduces a short post on Marxism in contemporary Chinese society with a surprising historical claim: When you stand in Tiananmen Square and look toward the Forbidden City, you see a huge portrait of Mao flanked by ...
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• White House Says Thanks To Diplomatic Beijing Cabbies

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 147
  Three taxi drivers in Beijing got a special Thanksgiving gift from Washington, D.C.
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• What, this old junk?

  
  Changing China — Authority: 469
  Before the triangular symbol taught us to recycle, reduce and reuse, recycling in Taiwan worked this way: Early morning or late at night, a man riding a tricycle trailed a small wagon and his long shadow through an alley piled with waste under a lone street light. He collected the brown glass Taiwan Beer ...
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• Why we like garlic

  
  Changing China — Authority: 469
  And China’s best performing asset in 2009 is….. garlic It beats gold, stocks and even property with prices up as much as 40 -fold. Is it because of swine flu or rising production costs or market speculators ? Beijingers give their reasons for the humble garlic bulb’s rise to success. Video credit: ...
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• US warned China that Israel could bomb Iran

  
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  Two senior officials from the White House, Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader, made a trip to China on a "special mission" to garner support in Beijing over the Iranian nuclear program, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post. The officials visited China two weeks before US President Barack Obama arrived in ...
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• Eurobike road: Cervélo and Milani - BikeRadar.com

  
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  In the last two months alone it tasted victory at the Tour de France with CSC-Saxo Bank and Carlos Sastre, followed by Olympic gold medals on the track for Spain’s Joan Llaneras and in the men’s and women’s time trials for the USA’s Kristin Continue .. BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 17 (Updated Sept. 18, 2008) ...
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• MACAU GT CUP : BUFORI BMS R1 RACE CAR & ALEX YOONG

  
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  At 10:30am on 22nd November 2009, the much awaited Macau GT Cup race is held on the Guia Circuit in Macau. Lamborghini GT3 driver Keita Sawa beats three times Macau winner Darryl O’Young to take the race win. British driver Daniel Watts finished in third place. Bufori Motor Company’s Bufori BMS R1, racing for the ...
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• China Releases Uyghur Church Leader from Prison

  
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  Osman Imin freed after two years; concerns remain over incarcerated Alimjan Yimit.LOS ANGELES, November 24 (CDN) — A Uyghur Christian in China’s troubled Xinjiang region was released last week after serving two years in a labor camp for alleged “illegal proselytizing” and “leaking state secrets,” according ...
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• Internet in China: 3G brings mobile porn, China launches cleanup

  
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  Beijing has called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites nationwide on recently, with government officials blaming their rise on high-speed mobile data services enabled by the launch of new technology. Earlier this year, China issued third generation (3G) mobile network licenses to its three mobile carriers – ...
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• A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions

  
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  Bunk beds are seen in a room in a black jail in Beijing in August 2009. Activists said more than a dozen illegal detention centers known as black jails exist in Beijing.
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• Chinese Consumer Sues CTS Over Coupon Use

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  Beijing Dongcheng District Court has received a lawsuit filed by a Chinese consumer against Chinese travel service provider China Travel Service over the use of a coupon.The consumer, surnamed Cheng, said in the petition that when he went to purchase the a travel product on December 29, 2007, CTS refused to accept a ...
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• Mannings Opens Its First Store In Tianjin

  
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  Mannings, the health and beauty chain brand of Hong Kong Dairy Farm Group, has opened its first store in Tianjin.Located on the first floor of Tianjins Milenio Jili department store, the new Mannings store covers a business area of 300 square meters. It stocks skin care products, cosmetics, personal care commodities, ...
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• Chinese overinvestment could strain trade

  
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  BEIJING — Chinas stimulus spending has fueled massive overexpansion in industrial capacity that could drive a surge in low-priced exports amid weak global demand, possibly igniting a protectionist backlash abroad, a European business group warned Thursday. Economists and business groups have warned that Beijings 4 ...
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• China executes 2 people for milk contamination

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Beijing, Nov 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a bizarre turn of justice, China has executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman on Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula. China has given such severe punishments so that it would be like balm to the public anger, reassure importers and put to [...]
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• Beijing Olympic – IAAF unveils relay teams for Beijing 2008

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 148
  The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced the names of the relay teams that will compete in the men’s 4×100m, the men’s 4×400m, the women’s 4×100m and the women’s 4×400m events at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. There are 16 teams in each event. Men’s 4×100m relay: ...
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