The celebrated exhibit space provides cultural, artistic and commercial activities in Beijing’s flourishing art district. Through interior refurbishment with contemporary aesthetics, the space combines the past, present and future of “New China.”
Ongoing exhibitions include: pictures by renowned photographer Xu Yong with the theme of Returning Home set in Beijing’s hutong alleys.
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art [...]

We have two photos taken around the same time at a former secret military factory complex in Beijing. It was built in the era of the planned economy, under the code name 798.
One photo shows what Factory Complex 798 was like in its old days. Spacious, bland and generic industrial red-brick workshops was the style
A [...]

For Adriaa, a South African tourist, a few sips of tea in a bar featuring Chinese horticulture and framed windows means more than just an evening’s pastime; instead it gives him a real feeling of being in the right place to taste the country’s culture.
“In Beijing, the Forbidden City and Summer Palace are not the [...]

BEIJING — Beijing is a great place for shopping. From the latest fashions to fine arts to more types of  tea than you can think of, it is most likely that it can be found  in the capital.  Here are 10 streets for great shopping as recommended by Xinhua.
Liulichang Street 
Liulichang, or Glass Street, near [...]

Long been regarded as a summer retreat for the imperial court, the Summer Palace is located in the northwest area of Beijing an composed mainly of Wanshoushan (Longevity Hill) and Kunming Lake. It occupies an area of 290.8 hectares, of which about 220 hectares is water. Centering on Foxiangge (the Pavilion of Buddhist Incense), the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

China is known as the home of tea, where people throughout the country drink tea every day. Those who have read the famous work “The Teahouse” by Laoshe must have a deep impression of Beijing’s teahouse.
In an early stage teahouses in Beijing fell into four categories: Qing (only-tea house), Shu (storytelling teahouse), Jiu(wine teahouse), and [...]

Peking University is situated at the outskirts of modern Beijing, near the Ruins of Yuanmingyuan and the Summer Palace. Of a history of more than 100 years, it occupies a very important position in China’s modern history. In 1919 the radical May 4th Movement was initiated from the University. It was also the centre of [...]