Saturday, December 6, 2008

Beijing 北京


Beijing has a long history of being the world-famous ancient city. Located in the North of China about 150 km from the Bohai Sea. With area of over 16,800 square kilometers. The city's total population is 13,819,000 people. In the North there is Jundu Mountain, in the west are the Western Hills, mountainous area of the city accounts for 62%. South East is the Yongding River and Chaobai River, which eventually join to empty into the Bo Hai Sea. There are mountains of coal, iron and other minerals, granite, marble, and other fine materials.

Beijing is the capital of People's Republic of China. It is the country's political, economic, cultural and transport center. It is also a center of China's splendid arts and culture, leaving many historical sites and cultural landscapes. Beijing is the country's political, cultural and international exchange center and a vibrant, dynamic and comprehensive industrial city. After the reform and opening up, especially the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period, the Beijing municipal government proposed the "Economy’s capital" concept. Following the Beijing-based economic development, the national service, the ambitious ideas, the economic structure and layout adjustment, the acceleration of economic growth mode transformation. As a result the city has achieved sustained, rapid and sound growth of overall economic strength to keep the country in the forefront.

Beijing has rich tourist resources, tourist attractions exceeding 200 places. The world's largest palace of the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Beihai Royal Garden, the Royal Summer Palace gardens, Badaling, Mutian Valley, The Great Wall As well as the world's largest courtyard Gongwang mansion, and other historical sites. The total of the city's cultural places is 7309, among them 42 units under State Administration of Cultural Heritage and 222 units in city-level protection. Beijing tourism sites has 456 hotels, 84000 rooms, 456 travel agencies, more than 5,000 tour guides speaking 21 major languages. In 2000 received 2,821,000 overseas visitors, tourism earned 2,77 Billion U.S. dollars. Beijing was considered one of "China's excellent tourist cities" by the China National Tourism Administration.

This is a very unique city which you will never want to leave, you will still be attracted, it will never let you down, you will never be lonely!

Ancient and historical in flavor with a mix of modern cosmopolitan. This is the secret of Beijing's unique charm. The Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains are Guarding the city's north-west side. The busy pedestrian streets are spread all over the district, combined to the ancient city has added a new era of vitality. Beijing, along history was the capital of several dynasties, large-scale imperial palaces, gardens, temples, and ancient tombs still existing 100 years after construction.

Beijing's Forbidden City palace building is china’s and the world's largest palace complex, was the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The building has a typical Chinese classical style. It is china’s most precious Cultural and artistic treasure. the Summer Palace, the exquisite combination of Jiangnan Water Village in the north and exquisite gardens of the heroic Atmosphere of Zhongshan Park. The Temple of Heaven is China's largest existing ancient buildings of worship, but also one of the world’s legacy architectures. It was during the Ming and Qing dynasties emperor. complete layout and beautiful environment. Ming Ming Tombs in Beijing is the largest group of ancient tombs, there are 13 emperor's tomb from the Ming Dynasty.

The magnificent Great Wall is a rare construction in the human history as an ancient military defense project. It has a long history and has been listed by UNESCO on the "World Heritage List". One of the world's eight miracles. Religious buildings in Beijing have always enjoyed a good reputation, well-known Chinese Buddhist temples: Biyun temple, Baiyun Taoist temple, the Lama Temple, as well as Islamic mosques and so on. In front of the Forbidden City Tiananmen Square to accommodate 1,000,000 people in this Assembly, is the world's largest city square, magnificent architecture and extraordinary vision.

Beijing embraces many well-known universities such as Tsinghua University and Beijing University. You can walk through the campus and imagine Zhu Ziqing, Hu Shi, and other old masters teaching at these schools. In Beijing there are many famous natural scenery, such as the beautiful scenery of the Fragrant Hills Park, The bamboo forest Zizhuyuan and the elegant environment of the Yuyuan Tan.

There is four distinctive seasons changing in Beijing. It has rich features of the natural landscape. Beijing is an active city, not a few kilometers, is one rural style: a few rivers indulgence towards mobility, magnificent deep canyons, cloud-filled mountains, dense forests with fresh air and more people to lead there way never tired of the vast Great Wall. Entertainment in a renovated pattern: mountain climbing expedition, picnics and camping, country cross drives, hiking, peace and tranquility in the water, and so on, whether you like sky diving, Water-skiing, skating or skiing. Whether you want to swim, parade, air travel (paragliding, bungee jumping), as long as you do not want to leave life-long regret, Beijing's eight urban districts and counties and dozens of outer suburbs, always waiting for you here!

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