Chinese Cities - Beijing

Beijing referred to as “京”, called “燕京”, “北平”, is the People’s Republic of China’s capital, municipalities, National Center City, mega-cities, the State Council approved the determined Chinese political center, cultural center, international exchange center, science, and technology innovation center, as of 2018, under the jurisdiction of the city’s 16 districts, with a total area of 16,410.54 square kilometers, at the end of 2019, the resident population of 2153.6 million, the urban population of 1865 people, the urbanization rate of 86.6%, the resident population of foreign 7.943 million people.

Beijing is located in the northern part of China and the northern part of the North China Plain. It is adjacent to Tianjin to the east and Hebei to the rest. Its central location is 116°20′ east longitude and 39°56′ north latitude. It is a world-famous ancient capital and a modern international city, as well as the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. , the central people’s government of the people’s Republic of China and the National people’s Congress Standing Committee office location.

The terrain of Beijing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The west, north, and northeast are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the southeast is a plain sloping gently toward the Bohai Sea. The main rivers flowing through the territory are Yongding, Chaobai River, North Canal, Juma, and many more from the mountainous north-west of origin, through the mountains, to the southeast winds through the plains, were imported the last Bohai Sea. The climate of Beijing is a warm temperate zone, semi-humid and semi-arid monsoon climate, with high temperature and rain in summer, cold and dry winter, short spring and autumn.

Beijing was rated as the world’s first-tier city by GaWC, a world city research institution. The United Nations report pointed out that Beijing’s Human Development Index ranked second among Chinese cities. In  2020, Beijing’s annual GDP will be 3610.26 billion yuan. Calculated at comparable prices, an increase of 1.2% over the previous year.

Administrative divisions

As of 2020, Beijing has jurisdiction over 16 municipal districts, namely Dongcheng District, Xicheng District, Chaoyang District, Fengtai District, Shijingshan District, Haidian District, Shunyi District, Tongzhou District, Daxing District, Fangshan District, Mentougou District, and Changping District. , Pinggu District, Miyun District, Huairou District, Yanqing District. The People’s Government of Beijing Municipality is stationed at No. 57 Yunhe East Street, Tongzhou District.

Sports career

Beijing has hosted the first, second, third, fourth, and seventh National Games, the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, the 21st World University Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and the 2014 FINA. Swimming Grand Prix. Beijing has won the right to host the 24th Winter Olympic Games in 2022. In 2009, there were 6,149 sports venues in Beijing.

There are two large airports in Beijing, namely Beijing Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Beijing Capital International Airport is one of the world’s largest airport, is China International Aviation Company (AirChina) main operations center, located in Beijing’s Shunyi District (administrative genus Chaoyang District ), 20 km from the center of Beijing. The passenger throughput reached 81.929 million in 2012, second only to Atlanta Airport in the United States, ranking second in the world. The airport and Beijing are connected by the Beijing Capital Airport Expressway and the Beijing Metro Capital Airport Line.

Beijing Daxing International Airport is located at the junction of Daxing District, Beijing and Langfang City, Hebei Province. It was officially opened to traffic on September 25, 2019. In 2019, Beijing Daxing International Airport completed a total passenger throughput of 3.135074 million passengers and a cargo and mail throughput of 7362.3 tons.

Beijing also has 6 airports: Beijing Nanyuan Airport, Beijing Liangxiang Airport, Beijing Xijiao Airport, Beijing Shahe Airport, and Beijing Badaling Airport, all of which are military airports.