International Medical Center (IMC)
Foreign doctors on-site 24 hours daily, offering a wide range of services, including family medicine, dentistry, pediatrics, TCM, internal medicine, dermatology, psychological counseling, OB/GYN and minor surgery. All medical, nursing and administrative staff generally conduct services in English, but Chinese, Japanese and Arabic are also spoken. Drop-in service for travelers. On-site pharmacy, [...]

The Great Wall, a wonder in the architectural history in the world, is a military project of ancient China. Lying across the northern borders of ancient China like a great dragon, it stretches east from the Shanhaiguan Pass west to the Jiayuguan Pass for 6,700 kilometers, hence is well known as 10,000-Li Great Wall(one li [...]

Organizers of the Beijing Olympics said on Wednesday that about 6 million tickets for the August 8-24 Games have been purchased, accounting for 86 percent of the total tickets available for sale.
Zhu Yan, head of the Beijing Olympics Ticketing Center, told a press conference that around 1 million tickets remain unsold now and the majority of them [...]

Being built along steep ridges and deep valleys, the Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou District, 73 kilometers northeast of Beijing city proper. It starts from Juyongguan Pass in the west and reaches Gubeikou in the east. The construction work of this section began as early as the mid-6 century during the Northern Dynasties(361-581) [...]

The Juyongguan Pass is located in “Guangou”, a 20 kilometer-long valley at the north side of Nankou Township in Changping District, Beijing. It is one of the three greatest passes of the Great Wall in China, the other two being the Jiayuguan Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass. In ancient times the Juyongguan Pass included the whole [...]

During the Games, Beijing’s public transportation network will be expanded with the help of 34 more bus routes connecting the city to each of the Olympic competition venues. In addition, fans will be able to ride to Olympic sites on specific express “K” buses, whose routes will be open on the [...]

On Beishan Mountain outside Beijing, trees have been planted on what was once barren rock.
More than 10,000 men removed thousands of hectares of rocks with explosives before hauling up soil and trees.
“Trucks could not go up the mountain, so we had to carry the soil ourselves,” Bai Yuanwang, a 36-year-old worker from Hebei province, said.
The [...]

If Beijing’s local supermarkets cannot meet your requirements, you can choose the international supermarket chain either. They usually provide better shopping environment and more import food than their local counterpart. The following are three most famous international supermarkets in Beijing.
Carrefour Beijing
Carrefour have 9 stores in beijing, it is the most famous foreign supermarket for the [...]

The minimum train intervals on Beijing’s Metro Line 2 subway, one of the capital’s busiest, will be shortened to 2.5 minutes prior to the city’s hosting of the 2008 Olympics Games, its operator said.
The company will cut the usual three-minute interval between trains during rush hour by 30 seconds from early July for line 2, [...]

Beijing Capital International Airport is building double fences around the complex and installing high-tech devices to thwart terrorists during the Olympic Games.
The fences will add up to 34.8 km, roughly the length of Beijing’s Second Ring Road, and will prevent terrorists from breaking onto the runways, taxying area and control towers, the Civil Aviation Administration [...]