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| Beijing City |
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| Tiananmen Square |
Beijing , also
known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China .The city is
the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the
headquarters for most of China's largest state-owned companies. The metropolis,
located in northern China. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces,
temples, and huge stone walls and gates. Its art treasures and universities
have long made it a centre of culture and art in China.
Tian`anmen
Square is the biggest city center square in the world, covering 44 hectares in
theheart of Beijing. It is the sight of numerous historicevents and ceremonies.
At the north entrance is the magnificent Gate ofHeavenly Peace, the symbol of
the People's Republic of China
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| Forbidden City |
The Forbidden City
is located inthecenter of Beijing and features the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The
palace represents the splendor and lavishness
of the Chinese Imperial Court, and features elaborately-carved buildings, exquisitely-painted rooms,
temples, and exhibition gardens
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| Badaling Great Wall |
Badaling section of the Great Wall is located
75 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The construction of the Great Wall began in
the 5th century BC. and is one of the greatest construction projects in all of
human history. The Great Wall has a total length of over 6,700 KM, and Badaling
is one of the best-preserved and most accessible sections.
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| Mutianyu Cable Car |
For a different perspective of the Great
Wall, visit the Mutianyu section. It is famous for the surrounding scenery and
architecture of the wall itself. Visitors can take a cable car ride to the top
of the Great Wall at Mutianyu
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| Temple Of Heaven |
The Temple of Heaven is the largest temple in
China, the sanctuary where the emperors
of Ming and Qing Dynasties worshiped for a good harvest. The magnificent Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest
is one of the most important and
impressive buildings in China.
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| Summer Palace |
The
largest and best-preserved imperial garden in China, the Summer Palace
was the place where emperors and their
families escaped the heat of summer. Its natural beauty andman-made landscapes
were designed as a paradise on earth for those who lived there.
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| Mingtombs sacred way |
The Ming Tombs
arethe burial site of 13 emperors of Ming Dynasty. You'll visit the
ChanglingTomb&Dingling Tomb, Changling is burial site of Emperor Yong
Le, the biggest and first built at thishistoric site
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| Capital Museum |
Planning for the
Capital Museum began in 1953 and formally opened in 1981. As a major cultural
construction project in Beijing, the new Capital Museum commenced its
construction in December 2001, and after
four years of hard work, the museum finally made its debut along the
western extension of Chang’an Street,
the First Street of China. The construction of the Capital Museum
itself is an architectural artwork integrating
both classical and modern beauty. It has distinct national characteristicson
one hand and obvious modern characteristics on the other. The architectural
design concept of the Capital Museum is
“Based on human and cultural heritages to serve the society” and underlines “Harmonious integration of past
and present, history and modernism, art
and nature”.
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| Hutong tour by pedicap |
The narrow streets
of old Beijing are known as Hutongs. You'll take a pedicab tour along the
hutongs and see the 100-year-old houses, courtyards and a vanishing way of life
in today's Beijing
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| Giant Panda |
The Giant
Panda is the beloved national animal of China, reason enough to visit the
Beijing Zoo. It is the largest zoo in China, with an extraordinary collection of
animals from Asia and around the world.
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| 798 Atr Zone |
"798"
Art Zone is located in Dashanzi area,to
the northeast of central Beijing. It was originally the site of
factories
including 798, an
electronics producing factory. The factory area is architecturally simple and honest, emphasizing utility. Its
massive ducts and bright windows are
seldom seen elsewhere. Its halls were built using Soviet aid in the 1950s, with
East Germany providing architectural and industrial design. Beginning in 2002,
artists and cultural organizations began
to divide, rent out and re-make the factory
spaces, gradually developing them into
galleries, art centers, studios, design companies, restaurants, and bars. It
became an area of international character, bringing together contemporary art, architecture and culture with a
historically interesting location and an urban
lifestyle, which attracts attention from all around. "798" has
evolved into a cultural concept of
interest to experts and normal folk alike,
influential on our concepts of both urban culture and living space.
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| Lama Temple |
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| Tanzhe Temple |
Tanzhe
Temple sanctuary dates back 1,600 years
to the Jin Dynasty, when it was known as the temple of Auspicious Fortune. Today, you'll visit the
temple with its Dragon Pool, set among the rolling hills of cudrania trees.
Temple of Alter t was built in 622 (AD) in the Tang Dynasty, and was know as
the Wisdom Accumulation Temple. This
site is known for the natural beauty of its
ancient pine forest, and peaceful serenity that surrounds the temple.
The Lama
Temple, located in northeast Beijing, is the largest Buddhist lamasery in the
city.Construction began in 1694 and its architecture reflects a blending of
Tibetan and Han cultures.
Today this peaceful temple houses precious Buddhist artifacts and imperial
objects of Qing Dynasty.
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| Birds Nest |
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| Water Cube |
The Beijing National Stadium , also known
as the National Stadium or the "Bird's Nest" for
its architecture, is a stadium under construction on
the Olympic Green in Beijing, China The
stadium host the main track and field competitions for the 2008 Summer
Olympics, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. It is located right
next to the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.The stadium is
330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2 metres tall. The
stadium uses 258,000 square metres of space and has a usable area of
204,000 square metres. It was built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a
combined weight of 45,000 tonnes. The stadium has some 11,000 square
metres of underground rooms with waterproof walls.The Beijing National
Aquatics Centre, also known as the Water Cube is an aquatics
centre, Despite its nickname, the building is not an actual cube, but a
cuboid (a rectangular box). Ground was broken on December 24, 2003, and the
Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28, 2008. Swimmers at
the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008 Olympics.
Also in Beijing
city,there are a lot of sightseeing you can visit .Such as
White Cloud Taoist Temple
Located in Beijing's west district, the
White Cloud Taoist Temple formally reopened in 1984. It is the largest Taoist
structure in the city and offers a unique example of a Taoist temple from the
Qing Dynasty.
Yunju Temple
Located in the southwest of Beijing, it
is the temple that contains the most stone inscriptions in the world.
Ruins of Western Zhou
The Ruins of Western Zhou Museum compose the archaeological specialized museum, which
combines the ancient cultural relics with the exhibition of historical objects.
It represents the splendid culture of the ancient Capital Yan.
Site of Peking Man
The discovery of the Peking Man is
considered to be one of the greatest archeological discoveries of all time. The discovery changed
the thinking behind the evolution of man. The
bones of Peking Man were unearthed nearby, and date back some 600,000 years.
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