About Beijing
Written on August 12, 2008 by KennyHistory: From the mid-12th century AD, as Beijing Yuan, Ming and Qing history before and after the capital of nearly 800 years. October 1, 1949, after the founding of New China, Beijing People’s Republic of China was designated as the capital.
Area: Beijing a total area of 16,808 square kilometers.
Administrative divisions: 16 Beijing administered zone two counties, followed by the Dongcheng District and Xicheng District, Xuanwu District, Fangshan District, Chongwen District, Haidian District, Chaoyang District, Fengtai District, Mentougou District, Shijingshan District, Tongzhou, Shunyi District , Changping, Daxing, Huairou, Pinggu and Miyun County District, Yanqing County.
Location: adjacent to the northwest Shanxi, Inner Mongolia plateau, South and the North China Plain convergence East near the Bohai Sea.
Climate: temperate monsoon climate, four distinct seasons and pleasant weather. Rainfall concentrated in the summer, the average annual rainfall 644 mm, spring and autumn is the best tourist season.
Beijing outlined
Beijing called Beijing, the People’s Republic of the capital. City Centre at 39 degrees north latitude, 116 degrees east longitude, is located in the northwest edge of the North China Plain, south-east about 150 km from the Bohai Sea. Area of over 16,800 square kilometres. The city’s total population of 13.819 million people. North Hill has all the military, a Western Hills West, the mountainous area of the city’s 62 percent; southeast of the Yongding River, the Chaobai River and other rivers from the alluvial, slowly tilt to the Bohai Sea on the plain. Mountain coal, iron and other minerals and granite, marble and other fine materials.
Beijing Plain in the altitude of 20 to 60 meters, mountain general elevation of 1,000 to 1,500 meters, and Hebei at the junction of East Mountain 2,303 meters above sea level, the highest peak for Beijing. River runs through the territory of five, mainly the eastern part of the Chaobai River, North Canal, the western part of the Yongding River and Juma He. Beijing is the topography of the northwest, southeast low. Yu Mo is the Taihang Mountains west of the Western Hills, north of the Yanshan Mountains are mountains of the military, the two-ditch clearance in the south of the intersection, forming a semicircle to the southeast of the start bending the mountains, known as “Beijing bends,” it around the small Beijing Plain is the small plains. Looking at Beijing terrain, the mountain Jin, the magnificent situation. As the ancients said: “You Zhou land, sea, Central left, right Yong Taihang, North pillow Ju Yong, South River Ji Jin,-the Land of Abundance.”
Beijing city’s total land area of 16807.8 square kilometers. Plain area of 6390.8 square kilometers, accounting for 38 percent. Mountain area of 10417.5 square kilometers, accounting for 62 percent. City area of 87.1 square kilometers. Suburban area of 1282.8 square kilometers, the suburb area of 3,198 square kilometers. County, an area of 12239.9 square kilometers. Urban planning: Ding Fuzhuang the east, west Shijingshan, Nanyuan the south, north and Qinghe, 750 square km area. Downtown area (that is, the old city areas and things to the Second Ring Road center for the community, north-south axis for the sector to a moat) area of 62.5 square kilometers.
Beijing’s climate is typical of the temperate sub-continental monsoon climate, hot summer rainy, cold and dry winter, spring and fall short. The average annual temperature of 10 to 12 degrees Celsius in January -7 ~ -4 degrees Celsius, on July 25 to 26 degrees Celsius. Minimum -27.4 degrees Celsius, 42 degrees above the highest extreme. Annual frost-free period 180 to 200 days, the western mountain shorter. The average annual rainfall over 600 mm, for the most rainfall in North China one of the regions, Piedmont windward slope up to 700 mm and above. Season is very uneven distribution of precipitation, 75 percent of annual rainfall concentrated in the summer, 7, 8, often heavy rain.
Beijing Tourism Resources
Beijing is rich in tourism resources, the opening up of more than 200 tourist attractions, the world’s largest palace Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven temple worship of heaven, the Royal Garden in the North Sea, the Royal Summer Palace gardens, Badaling, Mutian Valley, Sima Tai Great Wall And the world’s largest courtyard Prince Gong House, and other sites. The city’s total of 7,309 cultural relics, of which 42 units of national cultural relics, the municipal heritage preservation unit 222. Beijing existing tourist hotels designated 456, including 407 star hotels and 84,000 rooms, 456 travel agencies, 21 major languages of the tour guides more than 5,000 people, operating on a global market. 2000 received 2.821 million overseas tourists trips, tourism foreign exchange earnings 2.77 billion U.S. dollars. Beijing by the National Tourism Administration as “excellent Chinese tourist city.”
As of March 1995, Beijing has opened the forest park and forest total of 15 tourist areas, including: the Western Hills, Mangshan, at the top of hill and Jiufeng four national forest parks; Yunmengshan, small goal-Xin Three city-level forest parks, Pine Tree Hill National Nature Reserve, municipal Baihua Mountain Nature Reserve,丫Kyrgyzstan Hill tourist areas and tourist areas, such as four floor, a group of state-owned tree farms.
The list of attractions:
Dongcheng District: People’s Heroes Monument, Yu Qian Temple, Tiananmen Square, Tai Miao (labour People’s Cultural Palace), the National Museum of Chinese History, the Museum of Chinese Revolution, the China Art Gallery, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Wen Tianxiang Temple, Confucian Temple, Zhengyang Men (the front door ), The East four mosques, Peking University red chamber, Ditan, the Observatory, Sun Yat-sen Museum trip, the Corfu Palace, Imperial College, the National Palace Museum (Forbidden City), Jinshui Qiao, Berlin Temple, the imperial history (Mian + 10%), the clock tower, intellectual and Temple, Purdue Temple, the Drum Tower and the Lama Temple.
Xicheng District: Great Hall of the People, the high-Hyun Hall, Wansong elderly tower, Guang Jisi,Temple of Ancient Monarchs, Zhongnanhai, Yingtai, Zhongshan Park, Shi Shahai, on altar, Beihai, Baiyun Guan, National Culture Palace, the Xi Shi Church, Mission City, the Tomb of Matteo Ricci, the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, Miaoying Temple Baita (Baita Si), Shing Wong Basilica, Prince Gong House, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, the former residence of Guo Moruo, Jingshan, the former residence of Lu Xun, Deshengmen Jianlou, the China Science and Technology Hall.
Xuanwu District: Tianning Temple, the Niujie Mosque, Xian Nongtan, at Temple, Song Jun Um, Fayuan Si, South Hall, Taoranting Park, Liulichang, Liyuan Theatre and the Lao She Teahouse.
Chongwen District: Temple of Heaven, flyovers and music tea Longtan temple fair.
Haidian District: 10, Pu McGREGOR Temple (Wat Pho), 7 Wang Fen, the Tomb of March 18, Tai Juesi, large-hui Temple, the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Museum, Yuquan Shan, the Beijing Planetarium, Li Dazhao martyrs Park, the 1911 revolution Luanzhou Martyrs Tower, Pine Hall, Diaoyutai, McGREGOR Health Temple (Dazhong Si), Xiangshan, the Capital Gymnasium, I really feel Temple (Wu Tasi), Yuanmingyuan ruins, sorghum Bridge, Snow tomb, Zizhu Yuan, Jingtai Mausoleum, and the Longtan, Jimenyanshu monument, the Summer Palace, Cishousita, Biyun Si, Ying Taogou, Mo he Um, Wei Wo statues and the China Millennium Monument.
Chaoyang District: on the altar, Dongyue Miao, West Huang Si and the National Agricultural Exhibition Center.
Fengtai District: the western Bao Han Tomb, Changxindian February 7 revolutionary relics, the Lugou Bridge, the site in Tucheng, the town Kong tower and Yan pier.
Mentougou District: Mountain and Baihua Mountain, Miao Fengshan, Longmen Jian, Tanzhe Temple, Xifeng Temple, Jietai, riverside city, Zhenzhu Hu, while the Great Wall of Taiwan’s enemy and under-the village.
Shijingshan District: Western Hills Bada Chu, the Shijingshan glaciers Cahen and Fahai Temple.
Changping District: Xiaotangshan Hot Springs, Gong Hua City, Gougou Cliff, the Ming Tombs, Juyongguan, Juyongguan Haeundae, pagodas and Yinshan Zhaozong Bridge.
Yanqing, Huairou, Miyun County: Badaling Great Wall, the statue of Zhan Tianyou, Mutian Valley Great Wall, hit Crossing, Gubeikou Great Wall, the Longquan Temple Qi Jiguang and poetry landmark Sima Tai Great Wall.
Shunyi District and Tongzhou District: Jiaozhuanghu tunnel warfare sites, bridges and Lizhuo Wu Yong-tomb.
Fangshan District: Shidu, at the top of mountains, cloud water tunnel, the Chinese Yuan Ren sites, Zhoukoudian fish fossil origin, Shandingdongren sites, new holes were sites, Liangxiang Dubbo pagoda, Yunju Si towers and Liuli He Shang and Zhou sites.
Pinggu District: Jinhai Hu (Haizi Reservoir).
Transregional: Tucheng yuan site, the southeast corner Jiaolou City, Beijing Mass Transit Railway, the Commissioner ditch King, 72, pillow-sen, Hakuho mound, Mu Guiying dianjiangtai, white trees, Play Gap, Turtle Rock, the natural barrier, Tsing Lung inverted water, Wangjing stone, Chadao Town and courtyard dwellings.
