The China Millennium Monument, celebrations and festivities to usher in Year 2000 make up one of the grandest spectacles at the end of the century, as mankind strides towards the new century and millennium. New opportunities, challenges, and hopes are emerging over the horizon of China of the 21st century. The Chinese nation, with [...]
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National Art Museum of China is located on Wu Si Street. It is a national level art museum focused on displaying, collecting and researching the works of the artists in China modern times. Chairman Mao Zedong wrote the name of the museum. National Art Museum of China covers an area of 30,000 square meters with [...]
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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 [...]
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Beijing Zoo Guide - Beijing Zoo is notable for its pandas (if Sìchuān is not on your itinerary), even if the remaining resident menagerie is cooped up in pitiful cages and enclosures. The polar bears pin their hopes on graduating from their concrete cosmos to the far more stellar Beijing Aquarium in the [...]
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The Underground City has also been called the Underground Great Wall, since they had the same purpose: military defense. This complex is a relic of the Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969 over Zhenbao Island in northeast China ’s Heilongjiang River, a time when chairman Mao Zedong ordered the construction of subterranean bomb shelters in [...]
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Beijing Police Museum is a policeman’s profession death and danger, or glory and glamour? Answers vary when one peeks into handcuffs, cracked skulls, shell-proof vests, bloody scenes, hero badges and martyr names carved on the walls Housed in the former imposing American Citibank, Beijing, the Beijing Police Museum helps define the lives of policemen [...]
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Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall takes particular pains to present Běijīng’s gut-wrenching, hútòng -felling metamorphosis in the best possible light. English labelling is sadly scarce; the only exhibits of note are a detailed bronze map of the town in 1949 - ironically the very year that sealed the fate of old Peking - and [...]
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For serious stargazing in Beijing , head to the Beijing Planetarium. Shows vary monthly and English is seldom used. If your Chinese is up to scratch, then you may learn a thing or two from your visit. If you are still at a beginner’s level, sit back and enjoy one of the few clear [...]
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The Beijing Museum Natural History (“BMNH”) is located at 126, Tian Qiao Nan Street, Chong Wen District, Beijing,100050, and is the most popular natural history museum in China . It was originally founded in 1951 as the National Central Museum of Natural History, and its name changed to the Beijing Museum of [...]
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The Beijing Botanical Garden (Chinese: 北京植物园; pinyin: Běijīng Zhíwùyuán) is a botanical garden situated in the northwestern outskirts of Beijing, China between Xiangshan (Fragrant Hills) Park and Jade Spring Mountain (zh:玉泉山) in the Western Hills. It was established in 1955. The Beijing Botanical Garden covers about 564,000 square metres. The gardens [...]
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