Jinshanling Great Wall

The Great Wall at Jinshanling is one of the best preserved parts of the Great Wall with many original features. It got its name because it was built on the Greater and Lesser Jinshan ("Gold Mountain") Ranges. A tablet with the Chinese inscription for Jinshanling Great Wall was set into this section.The Jinshanling Great Wall has not been repaired since 1570. It is a remote and relatively isolated section of the Great Wall. As there are relatively few tourists at Jinshanling Great Wall, ... View Detail

Shek Kip off the Great Wall (residues Great Wall)

Shixiaguan Pass, southwest of the Badaling section of the Great Wall is the most intact part of the whole wall. In spite of serious damage, the winding wall in the lofty mountains reveals its grandeur in ancient times. However, the castle in Shixiaguan was pulled down during the Great Leap Forward. Nevertheless, the wall remains relatively intact because of its strategic location. Shixiaguan Pass was originally built in the reign of Ming Emperor Wanli (about 1600 AD), which was then a key pass ... View Detail

Along the City Wall

Many Great Walls in Beijing are not very famous or well-developed but keep their original looks, such as the Yanhecheng Great Wall, which is best destinations for Great Wall lovers as well.In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the Mongolians and established the Ming Dynasty in Beijing. To defend against the Mongolians in the north and the Nüzhen people in the northeast, the Ming Dynasty government started to rebuild and renovate the Great Walls based on the walls of earlier dynasties. It is recorded ... View Detail

Bai Ling Guan Great Wall

Bailingguan Great wall is located in Miyun County Metro township head Tao Village, 128 km away from the city. Bai Ling Guan Great Wall is located in an altitude of 916 meters on the Yanshan Mountains, west of Simatai Great Wall. Ridge mark this section of the Great Wall, a gate, difficult terrain. The gate which is under the city is the Bai Ling pass.Other Great Walls View Detail

Hancunhe

Hancunhe Tour Village is located at the place 40 kilometers southwest away from Beijing. It covers an area of 2.4 square meters and has 910 families with the population of 27000. Since the implementing of reform and opening-up policy, people in Hancunhe under the leading of Tianxiong have walked a successful way. They turned the undeveloped village into a beautiful metropolitan garden.Beijing has distinct seasons. The summer is hot and the winter is cold. The temperature is neither cold nor hot ... View Detail

798

In the northeast corner of Beijing, has more than one century, built the factory 50';s named Arts District, which is 798. It is located in Chaoyang District, Beijing Jiuxianqiao Dashanzi area streets, it is also known as Da Shan Zi Art District, the original 798 for the former state-owned electronics factory where the old plant. Jiu Xian Qiao Road west of this region, east of Beijing railway package, Jiu Xian Qiao North Road, north and south to Tai Road, an area of more than 60 million ... View Detail

National Theatre

BEIJING'S new futuristic National Center for the Performing Arts, formerly known as the National Grand Theater, will begin the formal performance season Dec. 22. Among international performers who will be appearing will be conductors Valery Gergiev and Seiji Ozawa, and sopranos Kathleen Battle and Kiri Te Kanawa. Apart from the Mariinsky Theater of Russia, other famous foreign orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic, will also give performances.These shows were expected to attract ... View Detail

Chairman Mao Memorial Hall

The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square between the Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.Red Sichuan granite at its base and trees around the hall is designed on principles of symmetry and "centrality." Sculptures north and south supplement the artistic rendering of national struggle presented on the Monument to the People's Heroes.The first floor is open to the public. ... View Detail

China Millennium Monument

The China Millennium Monument, as China's symbolic and commemorative building to welcome the Year 2000, is a gift for the world of the 21st century from the Chinese people, forever standing in China's capital Beiling.The China Millennium Monument is a grand structure. Fusing the spirit of traditional culture and the art of modern design, it covers an area of 4.5 hectares. On the southern entrance to the Monument, there is the Plaza of Holy Fire. Its area is 960 square meters, ... View Detail

Capital Museum

Introduction to Capital Museum The plan for the Capital Museum, located in the Confucius Temple, was prepared in 1953. The museum formally opened in 1981. As a major cultural construction project in Beijing in the "10th Five-Year Plan", the new Capital Museum, approved by Beijing Municipal Government in 1999, further approved by the State Council after being submitted by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2001, finally commenced its construction in December 2001. Under the concern ... View Detail