75 Facts About Beijing

Beijing, alternatively romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China.

Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China.

Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, business and economics, education, research, language, tourism, media, sport, science and technology and transportation.

The Beijing Daxing International Airport, a second international airport in Beijing, is the largest single-structure airport terminal in the world.

Beijing is one of the most important tourist destinations of the world.

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In 2018, Beijing was the second highest earning tourist city in the world after Shanghai.

Beijing is home to many national monuments and museums and has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites—the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, and parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal—all of which are popular tourist locations.

Beijing is home to the two best C9 League universities in the Asia-Pacific and emerging countries.

Beijing's Zhongguancun area is a world leading center of scientific and technological innovation as well as entrepreneurship.

Beijing has been ranked the city with the largest scientific research output by the Nature Index since 2016.

In 2022, Beijing became the first city ever to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and the Summer and Winter Paralympics.

The name Beijing, which means "Northern Capital", was applied to the city in 1403 during the Ming dynasty to distinguish the city from Nanjing .

The English spelling Beijing is based on the government's official romanization of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin.

Single Chinese character abbreviation for Beijing is ?, which appears on automobile license plates in the city.

The city was centered on the Drum Tower slightly to the north of modern Beijing and stretched from the present-day Chang'an Avenue to the northern part of Line 10 subway.

Beijing became the empire's primary capital, and Yingtian, called Nanjing, became the co-capital.

Beijing was buried, like almost every Ming emperor to follow him, in an elaborate necropolis to Beijing's north.

Beijing restored the name of the city, as the new capital, to Beijing, a decision that had been reached by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference just a few days earlier.

Since the early 1980s, the urban area of Beijing has expanded greatly with the completion of the 2nd Ring Road in 1981 and the subsequent addition of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ring Roads.

In recent years, the expansion of Beijing has brought to the forefront some problems of urbanization, such as heavy traffic, poor air quality, the loss of historic neighborhoods, and a significant influx of migrant workers from less-developed rural areas of the country.

Beijing has been the location of many significant events in recent Chinese history, principally the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Beijing is situated at the northern tip of the roughly triangular North China Plain, which opens to the south and east of the city.

The Great Wall of China across the northern part of Beijing Municipality was built on the rugged topography to defend against nomadic incursions from the steppes.

Beijing is famous for its siheyuans, a type of residence where a common courtyard is shared by the surrounding buildings.

Beijing has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate, characterized by hot, humid summers due to the East Asian monsoon, and brief but cold, dry winters that reflect the influence of the vast Siberian anticyclone.

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Beijing implemented a number of air improvement schemes for the duration of the Games, including halting work at all construction sites, closing many factories in Beijing permanently, temporarily shutting industry in neighboring regions, closing some gas stations, and cutting motor traffic by half by limiting drivers to odd or even days, reducing bus and subway fares, opening new subway lines, and banning high-emission vehicles.

Beijing became the first city in China to require the Chinese equivalent to the Euro 4 emission standard.

On 8 and 9 December 2015 Beijing had its first smog alert which shut down a majority of the industry and other commercial businesses in the city.

Beijing has been described as the "billionaire capital of the world".

In 2020, Beijing is the 5th wealthiest city in the world, with a total wealth amounts to $2 trillion.

Beijing is classified as an Alpha+ city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and worldwide and making it one of the world's Top 10 major cities.

Beijing is a large hub of the Chinese and global technology industry and ranked as having the strongest global startup ecosystem in the whole of Asia-Oceania region, ranking 3rd globally by the Global Startup Ecosystem Index.

Urban Beijing is known for being a center of infringed goods; anything from the latest designer clothing to DVDs can be found in markets all over the city, often marketed to expatriates and international visitors.

Beijing is a world leading center for scientific and technological innovation and has been ranked the No 1 city in the world with the largest scientific research output, as tracked by the Nature Index since 2016.

Beijing has over 90 public colleges and universities, which is the largest urban public university system in Asia and the first city in China with most higher education institutions, and it is home to the two best universities in the whole of Asia-Oceania region and emerging countries with its shared rankings at 16th place in the world by the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Beijing is home to several religious institutions, Some of them are listed as follows:.

Beijing is a site of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China.

People native to urban Beijing speak the Beijing dialect, which belongs to the Mandarin subdivision of spoken Chinese.

Rural areas of Beijing Municipality have their own dialects akin to those of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing Municipality.

Beijing or Peking opera is a traditional form of Chinese theater well known throughout the nation.

Commonly lauded as one of the highest achievements of Chinese culture, Beijing opera is performed through a combination of song, spoken dialogue, and codified action sequences involving gestures, movement, fighting and acrobatics.

Much of Beijing opera is carried out in an archaic stage dialect quite different from Modern Standard Chinese and from the modern Beijing dialect.

Fuling jiabing, a traditional Beijing snack food, is a pancake resembling a flat disk with a filling made from fu ling, a fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Beijing's lacquerware is well known for its sophisticated and intricate patterns and images carved into its surface, and the various decoration techniques of lacquer include "carved lacquer" and "engraved gold".

Younger residents of Beijing have become more attracted to the nightlife, which has flourished in recent decades, breaking prior cultural traditions that had practically restricted it to the upper class.

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In 2012 Beijing was named as City of Design and became part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

Beijing contains several well-preserved pagodas and stone pagodas, such as the towering Pagoda of Tianning Temple, which was built during the Liao dynasty from 1100 to 1120, and the Pagoda of Cishou Temple, which was built in 1576 during the Ming dynasty.

The Beijing Zoo is a center of zoological research that contains rare animals from various continents, including the Chinese giant panda.

Religious heritage of Beijing is rich and diverse as Chinese folk religion, Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam and Christianity all have significant historical presence in the city.

Beijing has many temples dedicated to folk religious and communal deities, many of which are being reconstructed or refurbished in the 2000s and 2010s.

Largest Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Beijing is the Yonghe Temple, which was decreed by the Qing Emperor Qianlong in 1744 to serve as the residence and research facility for his Buddhist preceptor of Rolpe Dorje the third Changkya .

Beijing has about 70 mosques recognized by the Islamic Association of China, whose headquarters are located next to the Niujie Mosque, the oldest mosque in the city.

In 1956, Viktor, the bishop of Beijing returned to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet embassy took over the old cathedral and demolished it.

Beijing rock is a wide variety of rock and roll music made by rock bands and solo artists from Beijing.

The first rock band in Beijing is Peking All-Stars, which was formed in 1979 by foreigners.

Famous rock bands and solo artists from Beijing include Cui Jian, Dou Wei, He Yong, Pu Shu, Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, The Flowers, 43 Baojia Street, etc.

Beijing started stage life in 1905 and became famous at 25 years old during performances in Japan.

Beijing was a pre-modern superstar, and famous for his portrayal of the Dan role, the elegant female archetype.

Beijing encountered national famine at the beginning of his career.

Beijing introduces western Rock to China in 1986 and mixed it with Chinese traditional music.

Beijing directed one movie called "Blue Sky Bones" at age 52.

Beijing's was educated at a Chinese university and Oxford University.

Beijing's is the first person who translates "Don Quixote" into Chinese.

Beijing wrote eight million Chinese characters in entire life, is famous for long novels and scripts.

Beijing has been living in Britain, Singapore, and United States.

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Beijing has hosted numerous international and national sporting events, the most notable was the 2008 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Beijing hosted the inaugural National Peasants' Games in 1988 and the sixth National Minority Games in 1999.

Beijing serves as a large rail hub in China's railway network.

Beijing is connected by road links to all parts of China as part of the National Trunk Road Network.

Beijing Daxing International Airport located 46 kilometres south of the city in Daxing District bordering the city of Langfang, Hebei Province, opened on 25 September 2019.

On 28 December 2014, the Beijing Subway switched to a distance-based fare system from a fixed fare for all lines except the Airport Express.

Beijing has long been well known for the number of bicycles on its streets.

The mountains of Fangshan are habitat for the more common Beijing mouse-eared bat, large myotis, greater horseshoe bat and Rickett's big-footed bat.

Beijing is home to the headquarters of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, making it an important city for international diplomacy.

Beijing is twinned with the following regions, cities, and counties:.