Beijing also known as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's largest state-owned companies. Beijing is also a tourism attraction of China because it has experienced a long history and left a lot of historical places for tourists to visit.
These are political center in the ancient time for a long times. Lots of dynasties setting the Imperial palace as the royal places because it geography and culture factors.
The Great wall is the most famous tourism attraction in Beijing even in China. It is a unbeliveable project in ancient peoriod and also a miracle in nowadays. The most comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that all the walls measure 8,851.8 km . This is made up of 6,259.6 km sections of actual wall, 359.7 km of trenches and 2,232.5 km of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.
Beijing is the host city of 2008 Olympic Games and make a great difference, these two pictures are main courts of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The top one is bird nest which looks like a small house for birds, and the bottom one is the Water Cube.
<by: Sam Li Tao >
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