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Chinese Name: 北京
English Name: Beijing; Peking
Other Name: Beiping 北平; Yanjing 燕京
Abbreviation: Jing 京
Zip Code: 10 00 00
Population: 21.886 million
Brief Introduction
Beijing 北京 is the capital of the People’s Republic of China. It is a world-famous ancient capital and a modern international city.
Beijing is an ancient capital with a history of more than 3000 years. It has different titles in different dynasties. Roughly speaking, there are more than 20 names. Like Yandu燕都, Youzhou幽州, Jingcheng京城, Dadu大都, Peiping北平, Yanjing燕京, Jingshi京师, Jingzhao京兆…
Beijing is China’s Political Center, Cultural Center, International Exchange Center and Scientific and Technological Innovation Center. The city governs 16 districts with a total area of 16410.54 square kilometers. By the end of 2021, the permanent resident population of Beijing was 21.886 million.
Famous Attractions in Beijing
Beijing is the world’s largest city with world heritage and the first capital city in the world with world geopark. Beijing has more than 200 tourist attractions open to the outside world, including the world’s largest imperial palace, the Forbidden City紫禁城, the Temple of Heaven天坛, the Royal Garden Beihai Park北海公园, the Summer Palace颐和园 and the Old Summer Palace圆明园, as well as Badaling Great Wall八达岭长城, Mutianyu Great Wall慕田峪长城 and the world’s largest quadrangle palace, Prince Gong’s Residence恭王府. There are 7309 cultural relics and historic sites in Beijing, 99 National key cultural relics protection units, 326 municipal cultural relics protection units, 5 national geoparks and 15 national forest parks.
Beijing is the “Capital of Museums博物馆之都”, with 151 registered museums. The National Museum of China中国国家博物馆 is the largest museum in the world. The Palace Museum故宫博物院 is one of the five largest museums in the world.
List of Major tourist attractions in Beijing
- The Palace Museum
- the Great Wall
- Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site
- Temple of Heaven
- The Summer Palace
- Ming Dynasty Tombs
- The grand canal
- Beijing Fangshan World Geopark
- Yanqing World Geopark, China
- Badaling Great Wall
- Ming Tombs
- Shihua-Cave
- Badachu
- Prince Gong Palace
- Guozijian Street
- Yandaixie Street
- Big Fence
- Di’anmen inner street
- The Grand Canal
- Beijing Yunju Temple Pagoda
- Sutra Cave
- Beijing Ancient Observatory
- Beihai Park
- Lugou Bridge
Famous Universities in Beijing
In 2021, Beijing enrolled 139,000 graduate students, 413,000 graduate students and 104,000 graduates. Ordinary colleges and universities recruit 160,000 college students, 596,000 students and 147,000 graduates. The city has 26,000 adult college students, 94,000 students and 46,000 graduates.
List of universities and colleges in Beijing
Religious culture in Beijing
There are more than 500,000 religious believers in Beijing, accounting for about 4% of Beijing. There are more than 100 places for religious activities in Beijing.
The religions of belief are mainly Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity. Among them, Buddhism, Taoism and Islam have had a great impact on the history, culture and art of Beijing.
Main temple halls in Beijing
Buddhism
- Tanzhe Temple
- Yonghe Temple (Lamaism)
- Guanghua Temple
- Guangji Temple
- Yunju Temple
- Jietai Temple
- Fayuan Temple
- Baoguo Temple
Taoism
- Taoism
- Baiyun temple (Quanzhen Road)
- Dongyue Temple (Zhengyi Road)
Islamism
- Niujie Mosque
- Dongzhimenwai Mosque
- Dongsi Mosque
Catholicism
- Xishiku church
- Xuanwumen Church
- Wangfujing Cathedral
- Xizhimen Church
- Dongjiaomin Lane Catholic Church
- Catholic East Church
- Catholic South Church
Christianity
- WenMen Hall
- Beijing Christian Church gangwa City Hall
- Shikoutang
- Wide street Hall
- Haidian Hall
- Chongwenmen church of Beijing Christian Church
- Nicholas Church (Eastern Orthodox Church)
