The average number of students for four-year college courses and technical courses was 4789, an increase of 1132 from the previous year. Beijing's people have a relatively higher ...

Its GDP per capita was 49,505 RMB, an increase of 8.8% from the previous year and more than twice as much as in 2000. In 2005, Beijing's primary, secondary, and tertiary industries ...

A year ago, Beijing's vice-mayor launched a campaign against foul language. According to Liu, boorish Beijingers pose a threat to China's Olympic image.

When it is open, this terminal will be able to handle 50 million passengers a year. Beijing's airport is already the 9th-busiest in the world.

Fei joined GSF in 2005, while studying at Beijing's Forestry University. A year later, she agreed to head the group's training program. She stepped into GSF's top post last year.

... about all that sand, sweeping down from the Gobi Desert and threatening to swallow Beijing within a few years. "Silly," responds one official in the Ministry of Agriculture's ...

August 8 marks one year until the 2008 Olympic Games begin in Beijing. Standing on the street in the Chinese capital, can you tell? Yes and no.

The Olympics are less than one year away and construction on Beijing?s Olympic Green and Forest Park is stepping into high gear. The Olympic Green, a massive 1,135 hectares ...

During the 4th year of the Hongwu era, Beijing's northern city walls were rebuilt slightly south from the Yuan's northern walls. Its gate tower is 31,5 metres by 16,8 metres, with ...

It has a long history that dates back more than 3000 years, and has served as the center of power for more than 500 of those years. Beijing is not only China's political ...

Beijing's Underground City For more than 20 years, Beijing?s Underground City, a bomb shelter just beneath the ancient capital?s downtown area ...

In the first eight months of this year, Beijing's investment growth in fixed assets was down by 1.2% compared to the same period last year, while that in infrastructure stumbled by ...

December 31, in Beijing's Zhongguancun Plaza Street walking creative fairs held New Year, a youth wearing a red star cap to produce their own selling jewelry, the partner side has ...

... newly crowned champion, the wounded hurdler will likely go down as the Beijing Olympics? biggest disappointment. An injury to his Achilles tendon not only ended this year?s ...

Eight years had passed from 2:27 a.m. on September 24, 1993 to 22:08 p.m. on July 13, 2001! Beijing's Olympic bid had finally got out of the shadow of failure at Monte Carlo and ...

Over the past six years, Beijing's annual GDP growth was 12.4 percent on average. Figures from the Beijing Statistics Bureau (BSB) showed the city's GDP reached 497.3 ...

... that are blamed for more than 400,000 premature deaths a year. According to the European Space Agency, Beijing and its neighbouring north-east Chinese provinces have the planet's ...

The names of the city kept on changing from Ji, Zhongdu, Dadu and then finally the Ming dynasty emperor ChengZu selected the name Beijing in the year 1421.Being the country's ...

Online oveview of Beijing's economy. ... By the year 2000, Beijing has to provide its dwellers 600,000 cubic meters more of water every ...

Some half a million years ago, Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian, in the southwestern suburbs of Beijing. The climate of that time was warmer and more humid than it is today. Forests ...

From January to May, the added value of Beijing's industrial output was 6.35 billion yuan, up 18.8 percent over the same period of the previous year.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says handing the Olympics to Beijing has placed China under seven years of supervision.

Fireworks illuminate Beijing's Tiananmen Gate to mark the one year countdown to the 2008 Olympic games.

U.N. Reviews Women's Progress 5 Years After Beijing by Jo Freeman ... UN Reviews Women's Progress Five Years After Beijing by Jo Freeman

Beijing's Underground City For more than 20 years, Beijing?s Underground City, a bomb shelter just beneath the ancient capital?s downtown area, has been virtually forgotten ...

With Beijing?s Houhai, there seems no limit. Just three years ago, this leafy lakeside neighborhood north of Tiananmen Square attracted only park-goers, weekend fishermen ...

But we can definitely say that in recent years, Beijing's air quality has constantly gotten better," Du says. Beijing has spent nearly $14 billion over the past decade to fight air ...

Beijing's population nears 15 million (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-04-15 09:08. Beijing's population reached 14.93 million last year, 3.6 times that in 1949 when New China was founded ...

Beijing's long and illustrious history started some 500,000 years ago. It is here that the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens, Peking men, lived in caves.

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