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ROYAL CITY : BEIJING
King Wu was the first to declare Beijing the capital city in 1057 BC. Subsequently, the city has gone by
the names of Ji, Zhongdu, Dadu, and finally Beijing when the Ming Dynasty Emperor ChengZu chose
the name in 1421. Before 1949, Beijing was known as Peking by the Western world.
A Beautiful Pasture Land : Urumqi
During the 22nd year of the Zhenguan's reign in the Tang Dynasty, 648 A.D., the Tang government set
up the town of Luntai in the ancient town seat of Urabo, which is now 10 kilometers away from the
southern suburb of Urumqi .
China's Import and Export
Data in 2010
In 2010, the total value of import
and export nationwide amounted to
USD2.9727 trillion, up 34.7% yearon-year.
Export reached USD1.5779
trillion, up 31.3%; import USD1.3948
trillion, up 38.7%. The trade surplus
stood at USD183.1 billion, down
6.4% from the same period last year.
HUTONG is a typical lane or small street in Beijing that originated during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-
1368). People say that the real culture of Beijing is "the culture of hutong" and "the culture of
courtyard". Where there is a hutong, there is a story.
The Ancient Luntai Town, which played quite a significant role on the new northern route of the Silk
Road in the Tang Dynasty, was a center for tax collection, management, and supply.
BEIJING 798 ART ZONE was once occupied
by a factory. Many art organizations and artists
came to rent the vacant plants and transformed
them, then gradually formed a district of
galleries, art studios, cultural companies, fashion
shops etc.
SUMMER PALACE is the largest royal park of the Key Cultural Relics Protection Sites of China. In
December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the
Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.