Best time to visit Beijing
The biggest factor in your calculations on when to visit Beijing should be the movement of domestic tourists, who during the longer public holidays take to the road in tens or even hundreds of millions, flooding transportation, booking out hotels, and turning even the quieter tourist sights into litter-strewn bedlam. Peak Travel Seasons Chinese New [...]
Beijing Ring Road
As a part of China National Trunk Road Network, Beijing as the capital of China is well connected to every part of China. Roads in Beijing are basically in one of four compass directions. This might be due to the traditional culture of Chinese people which prefer buildings and constructions to be in an axis [...]
Beijing Population
The municipality (the urban and rural areas) had a registered population of 17.4 million in 2008, based on residents who spend 6 months or more in the city. 12.04 million of this total have residence permits, while the others have temporary residence. Migrant workers, who come to Beijing to take up jobs in construction or [...]
Beijing History
About 700-thousand years ago, a tribal group which called “Peking Man” was emerged at Zhoukoudian area in Beijing. The city of Beijing itself also has possessed a 3000-year of development history. According to the oldest records, Beijing was first named as Ji. In Year 1045 BC, Beijing had become the capital of Ji, Yan as [...]
Beijing Geography
Beijing city at the Latitude 39 ° 56 ‘, longitude 116 ° 20′ is situated at North China Plain between the connecting part of Taihang Mountains and Yanshan Mountains. Beijing is about 150 kilometers to the West of Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. The Southeastern [...]
Useful Phone Numbers in Beijing China
China country code: 0086 Beijing city code: 010 Emergency numbers Police: 110 Fire: 119 Ambulance: 120 or 999 Traffic Accidents: 122 Traffic First Aid Hotline: 6845 5655; 6845 5665 Poisoning First Aid Hotline: 8316 3388; 8316 0233 Thief Resistance Hotline: 6401 1327 International SOS Assistance Top: 6590 3419 Division of Aliens and Exit-Entry Administration of [...]
Beijing Facts
• Beijing is the capital city of the People’s Republic of China • Beijing Municipality covers nearly 17,000 sq km • The population of Beijing municipality is 17million (10.6 in the city alone) • Beijing is China’s second largest city, after Shanghai • Beijing has had different names at different times: Peking, Beiping, Dadu, Jingcheng, and Yanjing • Yanjing is still [...]
Beijing Districts & Counties
After the formation of People’s Republic of China, the Beijing city had encountered at least 5 times of reassemble until 1961 and finally formed the 16 districts and 2 counties today. Dated to 2007, there are 134 sub-district Offices, 142 towns, 41 villages, 2554 Neighborhood Community Committees and 3,955 Residents’ Committees. There are four districts, [...]
Beijing Weather
Beijing has a humid continental climate with hot humid summers and cold dry winters. Average annual rainfall is only about 60cm, and most of this falls in July and August (20cm each), with virtually no precipitation in winter. The average July high is 29ºC and the average January low is -6ºC. The winter climate is [...]
Beijing China
Beijing also known as Peking is a metropolis in northern China, and the capital of the People’s Republic of China. Governed as a municipality under direct administration of the central government, Beijing borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast. Beijing [...]