Beijing
The well-known Beijing Evening News (Beijing Wanbao) newspaper is distributed every afternoon, covering news about Beijing in Chinese. Other newspapers include The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao), the Beijing Star Daily, the Beijing Morning News, the Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnian Bao), as well as English-language weeklies Beijing Weekend and Beijing Today (the English-language edition of Youth Daily). People's Daily and China Daily (English) are also published in Beijing.
Nationally-circulated Chinese newspapers are also available in Beijing.
Publications primarily aimed at international visitors and the expatriate community include the English-language periodicals City Weekend, Beijing This Month, Beijing Talk, that's Beijing and MetroZine.
The international press, including English and Japaneselanguage newspapers and magazines, are available in major international hotels and Friendship stores, and content often appears complete.
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Sports
Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Paralympics. According to author Mike Davis in his book Planet of Slums, which details urban population growth and the urban poor in developing nations, Beijing removed and relocated 350,000 people for the construction of the stadium that will house the Olympics.
Professional sports teams based in Beijing include:
- Chinese Football Association Super League
- Chinese Football Association Jia League
- Chinese Basketball Association
- Women's Chinese Basketball Association
- Beijing Shougang
- Asia League Ice Hockey
- China Baseball League
The Beijing Aoshen Olympians of the ABA, formerly a CBA team, kept their name and maintained a roster of primarily Chinese players after moving to Maywood, California in 2005.
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City and regional partnerships
Beijing maintains partnerships or "sister city" status with the following international locations. (Note: some locations are provinces or regional-level units, not cities properly. Beijing itself is not technically a city, being a Chinese municipality).[37]
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See also
- Lao zihao
- List of mayors of Beijing
- List of hospitals in Beijing
- 2045 Peking - the name of an asteroid
- Yanjing Beer
- Tourist attractions of Beijing
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References
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- ^ The Peking Man World Heritage Site at Zhoukoudian
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- ^ a b c d e Beijing - Historical Background. Cities Guide. Economist.com (2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
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- ^ Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Beijing, China (English). Weatherbase (2007).
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- ^ "China says it made rain to wash off sand", MSNBC, 2006-05-05.
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- ^ Department of Population, Social, Science and Technology Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China (国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司) and Department of Economic Development of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of China (国家民族事务委员会经济发展司), eds. Tabulation on Nationalities of 2000 Population Census of China (《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》). 2 vols. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House (民族出版社), 2003. (ISBN 7-105-05425-5)
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Further reading
- Li, Lillian; Dray-Novey, Alison & Kong, Haili (2007), Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City, New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1403964734
- MacKerras, Colin & Yorke, Amanda (1991), The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521387558, <http://books.google.com/books?id=yiq_f71uXboC&printsec=frontcover&dq=beiping+beijing&source=gbs_summary_r>
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