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There are many landmarks in Beijing. The best-known ones include the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China, the Temple of Heaven, the Tian'anmen and the Forbidden City, a number of temples, hutongs and parks, relics of ages gone by.
Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world.
Its total population in 2013 was 21,150,000. The city proper is the 2nd most populous in the world. The metropolis, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.
Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural and educational center. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies, and is a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic.
Beijing, as the capital and a municipality of the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a transport hub, with a sophisticated network of roads, railways and a major airport. Five completed ring roads encircle a city with nine expressways heading in virtually all compass directions, supplemented by eleven China National Highways.
Transport in the capital is overseen by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport.
The city is served by five completed ring roads. From the centre of the city outward, they are:
Nine toll expressways link Beijing to its suburbs, outlying regions, and other cities; these are:
Beijing cuisine (Chinese: 北京菜; pinyin: Běijīng cài), also known as Jing cuisine (Chinese: 京菜; pinyin: jīng cài; literally: "cuisine of the capital") or Mandarin cuisine and Peiping cuisine (北平菜) in Taiwan, because that was the city's name during the Republican era of China, is the cuisine of Beijing.
As Beijing has been the capital of China for centuries, its cuisine is influenced by culinary traditions from all over China, but the style that has the greatest influence on Beijing cuisine is that of the eastern coastal province of Shandong. Beijing cuisine has itself, in turn, also greatly influenced other Chinese cuisines, particularly the cuisine of Liaoning, the Chinese imperial cuisine, and the Chinese aristocrat cuisine.
Another tradition that influenced Beijing cuisine (as well as influenced by the latter itself) is the Chinese imperial cuisine that originated from the "Emperor's Kitchen" (Chinese: 御膳房; pinyin: yùshànfáng), which referred to the cooking facilities inside the Forbidden City, where thousands of cooks from different parts of China showed their best culinary skills to please the imperial family and officials. Therefore, it is sometimes difficult to determine the actual origin of a dish as the term "Mandarin" is generalised and refers not only to Beijing, but other provinces as well. However, some generalisation of Beijing cuisine can be characterised as follows: Foods that originated in Beijing are often snacks rather than main courses, and they are typically sold by small shops or street vendors. There is emphasis on dark soy paste, sesame paste, sesame oil, and scallions, and fermented tofu is often served as a condiment. In terms of cooking techniques, methods relating to different ways of frying are often used. There is less emphasis on rice as an accompaniment as compared to many other regions in China, as local rice production in Beijing is limited by the relatively dry climate.
Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Southern Weekly incident increasingly intensified, triggering the focus from South to North. Beijing News newspaper (BJ News) posted news on microblog that, on Jan. 8th BJ News refused to follow orders from the CCP Propaganda Department and refused to repost Global Times editorial article criticizing Southern Weekly. Yan Liqiang, vice minister of the propaganda department of Beijing City arrived to enforce it. He threatened to shut down BJ News if they didn't listen and forced them to reprint the Global Times article. Dai Zigeng, the publisher of BJ News verbally refused to obey the order, but in vain. On Jan. 9th BJ News reposted Global Times editorial article. Meanwh...
Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://goo.gl/lP12gA (Viewer discretion advised: some may find this footage disturbing) One woman was killed and another injured after a pair of tigers pounced on them at Beijing's Badaling Wildlife Park on Saturday afternoon. The tigers attacked one of the women when she left her vehicle and walked a few meters away from the car. The surveillance video footage shows the woman being dragged by the tiger, which prompted the second woman, who later turned out to be her mother, to rush for help.However, she didn't survive the attack. While the park allows visitors to drive their own cars in a safari-style tour, they are prohibited to get out as the animals roam freely through the park. But the first woman got out of the car after an alleged argument, puttin...
A model of a Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) debuted at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, which concluded on Sunday. The TEB is a purely homegrown invention of China, with its passenger compartment sitting above other vehicles on the road below, allowing cars to pass underneath. The TEB is designed to increase the utilization of road space. "With a carrying capacity of 1,200 people at a time, the TEB has the same functions as the subway while its cost of construction is less than one fifth of the subway. Its construction can be finished in one year," said Bai Zhiming, the engineer in charge of the TEB project. Trial operations of such a bus will start in Qinhuangdao City, north China's Hebei Province, in the second half of 2016. Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com...
Chinese officials issue the first-ever 'red alert' as record high levels of smog cover Beijing. With pollution levels having reached 40 times what's considered safe by the World Health Organization, schools have been urged to close and outdoor construction has been halted. Read: "Beijing Issues Highest Possible Alert Over Poisonous Smog for the First Time Ever” - http://bit.ly/1lKazpR Watch more Quick Hits at VICE News - http://bit.ly/1MOsgQA Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb....
PROUD DDS FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Philippinesgovernment/ LIKE AND SHARE VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/Philippinesgovernment/ Duterte has expressed his desire to build on the stellar accomplishments of the administration of outgoing president Benigno Aquino III, particularly the latter’s good governance initiatives and critical structural reforms that transformed the Philippines from being “the sick man of Asia” into “Asia’s rising tiger.” Of his ten-point socioeconomic agenda revealed on Monday, June 20, for example, his first point was to continue and maintain current macroeconomic policies, including fiscal, monetary and trade policies. However, he intends to depart from Aquino’s legacy of instituting slow but steady macroeconomic reform by advancing an economic agenda w...
In today's China news, Beijing was hit by heavy rains -- the worst in decades. Footage shows massive devastation and displacement with damages estimated at over $1.6 billion (USD). The low official death toll is raising questions about a cover up, and many fear the actual figure could be higher. Even as floodwaters raged, residents of Beijing pulled together in a show of solidarity. A group of volunteers, using weibo to communicate with each other, scoured the city, offering free rides to those who needed them. Today is the one year anniversary of the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash, though you wouldn't have been reminded of it by state-run media. A Chinese reporter says there is a ban on coverage of the crash, which killed at least 40 people, and injured nearly 200 others.a More toxic food...
Travellers in China returning from a national holiday created a huge traffic jam on the outskirts of Beijing. More than 30 lanes of vehicles were caught up during rush hour. James Menendez reports. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/bbcnews
In today's NTD China news, air pollution hits sky high levels in Beijing. Popular Chinese author Li Chengpeng was given a gag order during a book release event in Chengdu on Saturday. Li has been speaking out for press freedom, and Chinese security officials ordered him not to speak with fans during the promotional event. During a separate event on Sunday in Beijing, Li Chengpeng was attacked by two people who had lined up to get his autograph. Beijing police are investigating. Four Chinese workers have been abducted in Dafur, Sudan. They were there working with China Poly Group Corporation. 11 other Sudanese workers were also kidnapped. No one has claimed responsibility so far. The US has expressed alarm about China's space program buildup, according to Reuters. Citing unnamed source...
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Compared with China’s other megacities, Beijing is still a traditionalist at heart, so delve into the shops, galleries and restaurants in the city’s old, alleyway-threaded hutong neighborhoods. Produced by: Jonah M. Kessel and Aaron Wolfe Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1vjfdPp Subscribe to the Times Video newsletter for free and get a handpicked selection of the best videos from The New York Times every week: http://bit.ly/timesvideonewsletter Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video --------------------------------------------------------------- Want more from The New York Times? Twitter: https://twitter.com/nytvideo Instagram: http://instagram.com/nytvideo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nytimes Google+: https://plus.goo...
http://www.woltersworld.com The Best & Worst of Beijing. Heading to Beijing, China? The capital city is amazing with the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall and so much more to see. However, there are some things you will not like about Beijing, like the Smog, the Taxi drivers and the hordes of people. Here we have the Best & Worst of Beijing, China. Filmed in Beijing, China Copyright Mark Wolters 2014
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Beijing, the capital of one of the fastest growing countries and economies in the world, is also home to interesting, and sometimes bizarre, street foods. From silk worm cocoons that are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, to eating barbecued seahorse, which is believed to be good for your blood circulation, Beijing is well-known for its night and food markets that offer a variety food. The Chinese love their food, but dietary habits have changed rapidly in the past few decades. In a very short time, China has gone from "famine to feast". Today, the food in Beijing is as varied as it is plentiful: traditional or modern, Chinese or Western, China's capital caters to all tastes and needs. But while the narrow streets of Beijing used to be crowded with street vendors selling sn...
While there are subways in the West, there are major differences between those and the subways in Beijing. When I was planning on coming to China, I didn't really give much thought to transportation. Once I got here, I was in for a huge shock riding the subway. Plus a quick look at the pollution in Beijing.
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Woke up in Beijing
In someone else’s arms on me
Through someone else’s life
That I’m not sure belongs to me
There was a sound of a city, speaks to me
There was a sound of a city, sings me a song for the lovely moments
Through someone else’s eyes
Strangers they don’t look
Through someone else’s woods
Just to take a break from mine
It was a sound of the city, speaks to me
It was a sound of the city, sings me a song for the lovely moments.
There was a sound of a city, speaks to me