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Pack away those images of pods of revolutionary workers in buttoned-down Mao tunics performing t'ai chi in the city square; Beijing has embarked on a new-millennium roller-coaster ride, and it's taking everyone along for the ride. These days, the city's youth are more interested in MTV then Mao; rhetorical slogans from the Cultural Revolution have given way to herniated English splashed across designer-copy T-shirts; and expats, tourists, foreign investors and a cellular phone-toting hipoisie are mixing it up with the bureaucrats.

The old hutongs and buildings are being demolished, new buildings are going up, small things are giving way to big things and big things are giving way to even bigger things. This fast-paced, two-minute-noodles lifestyle doesn't please everyone - the old comrades are complaining about uppity youths and loss of values - but the capital of the People's Republic of China doesn't look like it's slowing down any time soon.

Local Travel Agent(s):
B J Express Consultancy Service Ltd.
 

Address: Riviera Club House No.1 Xiang Jiang Bei Road Chao Ynag District, Beijing 100103 China
Phone: +86 10 6435 3606, 852 2772 3385, Fax: +86 10 6435 3601

  Cits - Taikoo Air Service Limited
 

Address: Room 907, Tower 1, Bright China Chang An Building No.7 Jianguomen Nei Ave Beijing 100005 China
Phone: +86 10 65101881

  Ming Dynasty
 

Address: Room 906, Beijing Bonding Center, DongDamochang Jie, Chongwen District Beijing China
Phone: +86 1380 1351424, 86 10 67081761, Fax: +1 781 2406100

  Spring's Travel Service
 

Address: Room 1905, Building No.39 Beili Zuo, Jia Zhuang Lu Road, chao Yang District Beijing PRC 100087
Phone: +86 10 64680807

  Beijing Atlas Air and Travel Service Ltd.
 

Address: Room 203 2/F JIA26, Bai Jia Zhunagxili, Chaoyangqu, Beijing China 100020
Phone: +86 10 65084351, 86 10 65084352, Fax: +86 10 65864140

 
Beijing City Map

Population: 13.8 million
Area: 750 sq. km (290 sq. mi) province: 16,800 sq km (6552 sq mi)
Country: China
Main language: Putonghua (Beijing Mandarin dialect) and Cantonese
Time: GMT/UTC +8
Telephone Area Code: 010