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Sentence Examples This is apparently not the only site in Beijing municipality where ibisbills have been recorded. Impressive debuts for the Bahrain and Beijing circuits, have heaped greater pressure on the British showpiece event. But Beijing made it clear that surveys with noncommercial overtones, such as political opinion polls, are strictly prohibited. They begin in Moscow and terminate in either Vladivostok, the eastern Russian port, or Beijing in China. With Howard due to attend APEC in Beijing next week and play the international statesman, Beazley's cussed luck continues. The centrepiece of this colourful quarter is the magnificent Chinese Arch, built by the finest craftsmen of Beijing. China's first test-tube baby was born 15 years ago at Beijing University No.3 Hospital. The threat of a reprisal strike was broadcast by the country's state-run radio, and monitored in Beijing. A 33 year old woman gave birth early on Monday in Beijing to a set of quintuplets through Caesarean operation, eight weeks ahead of schedule. If Beijing can fulfil such targets, it should be a memorable and historic occasion. The asylum-seekers arrived in the Philippine capital on Friday night aboard a China Southern Airlines jetliner from Beijing. Japan and North Korea are scheduled to hold the next round of talks on normalizing diplomatic relations later this month, possibly in Beijing. With cities from Shanghai to Beijing to Shenzhen vying for a piece of the action, Hong Kong is losing its monopoly on China trade. Market potential is enormous, according to an official from central government departments in Beijing. In this they closely resembled the Apollo project, begun 540 years after the great junks had sailed from Beijing. On the final day of the trip Mr Higgins enjoyed some sightseeing around the capital of Beijing. Nanjing has also in the past been the capital of China, whereas now Beijing has that role. Perhaps you can see why all those who wrote about the Beijing speech are suddenly stranded. We were whisked quickly through the spick and span Beijing Airport with hardly a question asked. But if the U.S. ratchets up the pressure with more protectionist moves, Beijing may retaliate with higher tariffs of its own. Show More Sentences Having made it through university, they want to live in comfort and make good money working in places such as Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen. So Beijing wants banks to extend consumer financing beyond autos and mortgages to include vacations, white goods, home furnishings, and more. Perhaps, the Beijing worker was spirited away to act as some sort of investment adviser. Beijing banned the logging which had stripped the upper reaches of China's major rivers bare and embarked on a huge reafforestation campaign. Beijing this winter is festooned with orange banners and billboards that look like Communist agitprop. Instead of privatizing its state banks and financial firms, Beijing has decided to recapitalize them. According to the World Bank, Beijing and Mexico City have the most severe air pollution of all the world's major cities. Fourthly, more and more foreigners used Beijing as their springboard to run a blockade to the third country. He made the comments at a dinner reception in Beijing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of a peace treaty between Japan and China. China would reign supreme in Asia with even Tokyo and Seoul kowtowing to Beijing. China, which claims Taiwan as a province, does not allow countries that recognize Beijing to concurrently have diplomatic relations with Taipei. The US recognised Beijing as the legitimate government of the whole of China and ended its formal recognition of Taiwan. Beijing has pushed the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to crack down on Uighur activists. In Beijing, some traffic lights offer a countdown clock for both green and red signals. Chemically synthesized tetrose was produced by the Department of Organic Chemistry in Beijing Medical University. In richer cities such as Beijing and Shanghai it is not far behind developed country levels. He was formally inaugurated on June 23 in Beijing, replacing the former chief executive Tung-Chee Hwa, who resigned in March. There are no official estimates of deaths in Beijing, but most observers believe that casualties numbered in the hundreds. If Beijing sticks to its unbending attitude on the textbook issue, Japan and China will never be able to resolve the dispute. The recent acceptance of wushu into the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games attests to the sport's international success. Show More Sentences Concerned about overcapacity in the auto industry, policy makers in Beijing have been engaged in a lengthy effort to curb auto loans. It was unclear from the newspaper report whether Beijing is offering to pay to build the line on the Pakistani side. Experts see this as a possible move ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to abolish the labor camps in the country. In a radical departure he used hand-held cameras that bob and weave in an attempt to capture the frenetic energy of the Beijing cityscape. Our Beijing guide Max arranged for us to stop in and visit a hutong family and drink a cup of tea with them. A complete home-made laddertron has been made in Beijing HI-13 Tandem Accelerator Laboratory. The film will be set and shot in Beijing and in the wealthy southern city of Shenzhen. Beautiful cinematography done both in Beijing and in Canada lend itself well to the gorgeous scenery and realistic sets as well. He lived in the imperial capital Beijing from 1523 to 1526 before retiring back to his native city to live the life of a scholar and a gentleman. The incident comes at an uneasy time in relations between Washington and Beijing. On a scorching summer day earlier this year, Beijing engineer Shan Tao doesn't need a slide rule to sort out his overheating equation. The political power of the lamas was taken away and given to Tibetan leaders nominated by the central government in Beijing. Nearly all books are in Chinese, except in Shanghai and Beijing, where foreign language books are also available. He finally had to feign illness due to altitude sickness and return to Beijing to be re-assigned to another post. This derives from Beijing Mandarin and is about as similar to that dialect as American English is to British English. There's a fine shot of him yucking it up in Beijing with former Chicom boss Jiang Zemin, aka the Robin Williams of the Middle Kingdom. Located in the heart of Beijing close to the Central Business District, The Hotel welcomes guests with its incredible crystal exterior. Much of traditional Beijing has been destroyed by pressures of booming population and economic growth. The group will visit Beijing, Shanghai and the southern boom town of Shenzhen. He spoke after the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations near Beijing yesterday. Show More Sentences A hospital from Beijing bought three tons of herbal medicines mentioned by the experts. There are plans in the pipeline to open a shop in Shanghai and perhaps expand to Beijing. On the university campuses of northern Beijing, students slammed down their books and rushed outside. For Beijing sweet tooths, the chocolate of choice is Dove, a simple British confection that comes in bar form. Beijing Times noted that she was the first honoree born in China to receive this American honor. But Britain's most successful Paralympian, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, has admitted she is unlikely to add to her 11 gold medals in Beijing. The Red Cross also organized a Beijing benefit concert with Chinese pop singers on Thursday to raise more money for tsunami relief. There had been something of a thaw in relations between democrats and Beijing recently. China's own film production started in 1908 when Dingjun Mountain, the stage play of a famous Beijing opera, was shot. After a 15 hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing, we had to take a hopper flight to Shanghai, adding another 2 hours of travel time. Leaders in Beijing have ordered that the safety of astronauts be ensured first when launching a manned spacecraft, the newspaper said. After a siege of two months, from 14 June to 14 August 1900, allied troops entered Beijing and relieved the foreign legations. Britain and France, along with the USA and Russia, sent identical notes to Beijing. The World Toilet Summit in Beijing will feature a host of guest speakers from across the globe discussing the latest toilet technology. During the Korean War, both Pyongyang and Beijing repeatedly accused the US of employing bacteriological weapons. In Beijing, the Qing reserved the Kunning palace in the Forbidden City for shamanist sacrifices. On the evening news from France 2 the other day, I saw a little piece on the new opera house in Beijing. The story, which is performed in an approximation of a Beijing Opera style, is simple. Restaurants in the hotel were the first to provide authentic Beijing cuisine such as roast duck and precious royal dishes. Beijing was bidding to bring the world's finest athletes to a city with very bad air pollution. Show More Sentences The Summer Palace at Beijing with its archaic temples, pavilions, huge mansions, lakes etc. make a superb picnic spot. A Chinese-character softcover version of The Half Blood Prince was being sold in an underpass in downtown Beijing for 20 yuan. Experts have been cleaning the 13 fossils ready for display as part of the terms of the loan from the Geological Museum of China in Beijing. A Beijing opera brought out people's dancing spirit in the third Greenwich Chinese Spring Festival. The six nations agreed to hold the next round of talks in early November in Beijing. Beijing said steel and non-ferrous metal prices are falling amid slowing spending on factories, buildings and other fixed assets. Beijing initiated an antidumping investigation last month into imports of art paper from Japan, Finland, South Korea and the United States. Pro-democracy legislators have been invited to the event in a move seen as a conciliatory gesture from Beijing. Both Moscow and Beijing are trying to win influence in the Asia-Pacific region and in Central Asia, in particular. In Forever, Jia mounts a video camera on the spokes of a tricycle and pedals it through Beijing. By the end of last year, Beijing seemed to be making headway in preventing the economy from boiling over. From Bombay to Beijing, rivers are running dry or are so polluted they cannot support life. In the 1960s, a Beijing toilet cleaner surnamed Chen made a name for himself by carrying out his job with great assiduity. One of his friends once showed some music he had written to a big-time songwriter in Beijing. Former Chinese gymnast Li Ning carried the Olympic flame as he was lifted to the air during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Games. Therefore, sending Portuguese passport holding Macanese to Taiwan on intelligence missions is very convenient for Beijing. At the same time, Beijing has also lost flexibility in pursuing fiscal policy due to its loss of revenues from provincial authorities. Tianjin and Beijing are two other cities where the work of extirpating public sordor and decadence was successfully carried out. Weidenreich came to the Museum in 1941, just before the Japanese invaded Beijing and his beloved Peking man fossils were lost in the shuffle. The kidnappers were soon surrounded by police in some place just south of Beijing. Show More Sentences Beijing and the people of Beijing are wonderful people, friendly, helpful, focused on bettering themselves and keen to please. Cathay is applying to Chinese aviation authorities for approval to fly to Beijing. He has set Hong Kong on a ninefold path to nowhere with his report to Beijing outlining conditions for democratic reform in Hong Kong. After it passes Nanjing, it will move southwest toward the direction away from Beijing. A Finnish man died in Beijing from the virus yesterday, taking the number of deaths in China's capital to four. Yin Yan, a lawyer at Beijing Jingyi Lawyer's Office, said knocking the car to bits was definitely the wrong thing to do. A 23-member IOC delegation inspects a scale model of the Olympic Village planned for the north of Beijing. Would you want to see a film taking place in the real Beijing theme park with scale models of the world's most famous landmarks? The Stalinist bureaucracy in Beijing, which was based on the seizure of power by peasant-based armies, was never socialist or communist. China's economic and political scenes have been quite good after new leaders took over in Beijing. The Japanese bullet train is one of the candidates for a planned high-speed train linking Beijing and Shanghai. Although it has yet to be confirmed whether the woman in the video is a Chinese citizen or an ethnic Chinese Malaysian, Beijing reacted strongly. And the spoken Chinese uttered by the Qing emperors' officials and the court mandarins in Beijing was none other than the Beijing dialect. Transport in Beijing is plentiful in the shape of regular buses, minibuses, subways and taxis. She says she intends to go to Beijing University to study international trade. The 1772 ban against female performers on stage created the tradition of the female impersonator in Beijing Opera. Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was. The author is a program consultant and host at China Central Television in Beijing. Just last year, after decades of frostiness, there were indications from Beijing that it may forge diplomatic ties with the Vatican. But he feels the Beijing government has already scored some victories in Montreal and Chinatowns across the world. Show More Sentences In fact, Beijing has long been the most important player in the India-Pakistan-China triangular relationship. I loved finding shibori indigo dyed fabrics in Beijing, beautiful cottons in Florence, and lovely crochet in Korea. Uzbekistan joined in June 2001, when the body was restructured with a permanent secretariat headquartered in Beijing. In addition, the spectator is given some delightful glimpses of archival footage of Old Beijing such as the pan across the Forbidden City. Commercially, the Beijing Olympics knocks the FIFA World Cup, which started on Friday, into a cocked hat. After a decade of breathing the poisonous effluent of a coal-fired power plant in a Beijing suburb, residents had finally had enough. Businessweek has an article about the Beijing Genome Institute which mapped the rice genome earlier this year. Most recently he was the Beijing correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review. The pair returned from a 1000 km awareness-raising bike ride between Beijing and Shanghai with decidedly mixed feelings. More troubling, the results will encourage more intransigence from Beijing. The Eastern Qing Tombs is the first imperial graveyard built during the Qing Dynasty after the Manchus crossed the Great Wall and entered Beijing. In 1989, she went on to study Mandarin Chinese language and Chinese philosophy in Beijing where she stayed and worked for 7 years in news agencies and Embassies. There are concerns that Beijing and Seoul, both of which show some understanding toward Pyongyang, may call for an assurance that is too concessive. State-level science parks in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have started to deploy incubator programs for both domestic and foreign research initiatives. When Beijing pays for those dollars with renminbi, it inflates its own money supply. For one thing, if the North cancels its missile plans, the U.S. will lose a main justification for building the theater missile defense system Beijing opposes so strongly. On Friday, in the giant banqueting hall of the Beijing Hotel, Beckham sat wide right on a raised podium at what should have been termed an anti-press conference. Beijing doesn't believe that the people of Hong Kong are intelligent enough to find their own way. An expert on provincial recipes from Hunan, Sichuan, Beijing, Cantonese and seafoods, he is well versed in the popular culinary varieties from Shandong, Huaiyang and Anhui. Challenging the deal could be portrayed by Beijing as interfering in Chinese economic and trade freedoms. Show More Sentences Beijing in particular experienced waves of change, each of which required the destruction of earlier thought patterns, organizational structures, and edifices. Kim Jong Un, who assumed power on the death of his father, had given uncle jang nearly free rein to handle relations with Beijing. He was born in Jiangsu Province and worked as an editor and reporter for several publications in Shanghai and Beijing. I was in Beijing recently, which is another mega city that grew quickly. We'll look at the tough sell facing our commerce secretary in Beijing. American-born Locke, whose Cantonese grandfather once worked as a house servant in Washington, called for closer ties between Beijing and Washington and freer trade relations. Melinda Liu on why Beijing needs to keep a lid on the demonstrations while also sympathizing with the patriotic zeal. These days, when I go to Beijing, no matter how short the stay, I try to visit the Din tai Fung near the embassies. Feng applied for control of the octroi levied on goods entering Beijing. The emblem of the Beijing Olympics, resembling a five-pointed star in the colours of the Olympic rings, represents a person doing traditional shadow-boxing. This installation of 900 whole and broken porcelain bowls is by Chinese artist He Xiangyu, from his show at white space Beijing. A generation ago, Beijing watched nervously as the Soviet Union loosened its grip only to fall, and split apart. On Monday, five German tourists were killed when their tour bus crashed on the road between Beijing and Tianjin. Like consumer marketers competing for a slice of public mindshare, Washington, Beijing and New Delhi are increasingly trying to win hearts and minds. From her 1995 Beijing address to her vocal advocacy for contraception, watch our mashup of her best. Protesters blame him for mismanaging the economy, bungling the fight against SARS, and listening too carefully to Beijing and not enough to local opinion. It is not without reason that China is serving as the host of the ongoing trilateral negotiations between the US, China and North Korea in Beijing. In Beijing the announcement was put out early on the morning of the 30th. If Washington is to adopt a tougher stance toward Beijing, it needs a lot of methodical calculation. The talks follow six months of shuttle diplomacy after a first round in Beijing last August failed to narrow the gulf over Pyongyang's atomic arms ambitions. Show More Sentences There were no further details in the KCNA report, monitored in Beijing. Brazil and India, beginning in April, publicly backed calls for Beijing to let the renminbi trade freely. That gives Beijing unrivaled leverage over Pyongyang and its ruling class's entrenched patronage system. Dedicated fans of Chinese rock music have found ways to listen, whether in mosh pits in Beijing, on overseas concert tours, or by picking up CDs and music over the Internet. Kim Jong Un, therefore, does not have to worry about Beijing reining him in. The couple will also have the opportunity to meet with Chinese leaders who played a role in restoring bilateral ties and view flowering cherry trees in bloom in Beijing. Beijing also demanded that Abe declare he will no longer pay visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. After traversing multifarious crossroads, we arrived at a walled courtyard complex which, turned out to be the habitat of the friends I made last summer in Beijing. Looking for a rec center with an acre of cardio and weight machines like the ones used at the Beijing Olympics? The Wen Wei Po article contains a nugget that tells us why Beijing wanted to get back at the regime in Pyongyang. Today, Beijing feels that many of those old systems are outmoded, putting China at a disadvantage. Today was the only time all week that xi shared a platform with another world leader in Beijing on an equal footing. With his suggestive humor and wit, popular writer xu Lai represented a new challenge to the authorities in Beijing. One might say that in Beijing on Wednesday the atmospherics were everything. In 1900 the Boxers besieged the foreign legations in Beijing for two months until they were relieved by an international force which occupied and looted the capital. Then she qualified for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, where women hand-cyclists would compete for the first time. In one of them, he urged his readers to plant the pine cabbage which stands unharmed through the icy Beijing winter, ready for use when the spring thaw arrives. The book gives you a detailed introduction to Beijing, such as geography, palaces, temples, bystreets and well-known persons with more than 200 photos. Several hundred people gathered near the Japanese embassy in Beijing, some pelting it with water bottles and eggs. Beijing has gone from placating them, to ignoring them, to telling them that democracy is not for them. Show More Sentences And indeed ethnic Chinese children living in Hong Kong have a far higher rate of asthma than children in nearby Guangzhou and in Beijing far to the north. If this is true, translators in Beijing are making more money than all those executives, chairmen, presidents and top politicians for whom they render their services. Since 2013, his telecoms company Beijing Xinwei has been awarded several telephone and internet licenses. Almost all Asian nations want America as the balancer and protector against an increasingly demanding Beijing. So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City. Many argue that Beijing and Moscow have differing interests, and indeed, some of them are irreconcilable. Just hours after the announcement in Beijing, Republican senators began to outline just how much they disdained the new agreement. The joint-announcement should also put to bed long-term disagreements between Beijing and Washington over emission targets. Third, Beijing is likely to emerge as an exporting superpower, aggravating America's trade deficit and fanning protectionist pressures in a slumping world economy. Nobody remembers who presided over the 2008 Games in Beijing and only a few might recall Brezhnev in Moscow. He has just completed about two months in the saddle pedalling from Tiananman Square in Beijing, China, setting off in early March on his homeward journey. I have always lived in a hutong, a traditional Beijing alley. The new quadrennium, with its countdown to Beijing, has already begun. In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button. Since 1965, the water table under Beijing has fallen by some 59 metres. The mother and all the quints, who weigh from 1,490 to 1,820 grams each, are in good condition, said sources at Beijing Maternity Hospital, where the delivery took place. From the Russian perspective, cuddling up to Beijing has more to do with Russia's frosty relations with the West than the chill of the Russian winter. But events in the Special Administrative Region are enormously important to the Communist Party leadership in Beijing. You can go to Shanghai or Beijing, but they are far more westernised. In the throes of its convulsive Cultural Revolution, with exactly one ambassador permitted overseas, Beijing was totally isolated. Show More Sentences The down-and-out rattiness of a previous generation's Beijing East Village has been replaced by an urban-pioneering, but thoroughly cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial ethos. A crackdown on a Tiananmen scale is on many minds, even if no one has the foggiest idea what Beijing is planning. The president will remain under pressure to encourage Beijing to float its currency, currently pegged to the dollar, which experts argue makes imports artificially cheap. The fourth round of talks recessed in Beijing earlier this month. New roads and subways have and are being built, while a third terminal is currently under construction at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Born in Beijing, Weng studied computer science at the University of Texas. What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government. That statement, simply put, means Beijing might actually try to depreciate its currency. The event will continue to London, sao paulo, and Seoul before it ends in a three-day finale in Beijing. As dinnertime came and went, he and his wife and two young children, who had traveled to Beijing, had nothing to eat. During my visit to the Beijing New Art Projects the Gao brothers walked out from behind their glass office and lackadaisically circulated among the visitors. Though Westerners were starting to import mass-produced porcelain and lacquerware from China, they had no access to goods of the quality supplied to the court in Beijing. Last year, she had a chance to meet Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, 16 years after seeing that scratchy video in Beijing. There is little sign that Beijing has the appetite to scrutinize its own policy errors, though some in China have pointed the way. Every mall in Beijing is festooned with Christmas decorations. Mr Chen remains in hiding after claiming there are a thousand agents for China operating in Australia and that people have been kidnapped and transported back to Beijing. It was reported in the Legal Daily early this year that a company selling construction materials in Beijing wanted to open a chain store somewhere in Northwest China. But where do air pollutants in northern China, in particular Beijing, originate? Construction cranes litter the skylines of Chinese cities, particularly Beijing and Shanghai, helping to construct apartments and office buildings. Beijing was thereafter circumfused with rings of green waters. Show More Sentences Check out this compilation of gymnastic wipeouts from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Beijing strictly controls the prices companies can charge for their products, always keeping them low enough to maintain growth regardless of international crude oil prices. I deplore the fact that, from Beijing to Belfast, youngsters are inveigled into putting themselves in the front line of politics even when bullets are involved. Beijing is encouraging the development of big retail groups as part of attempts to strengthen the industry before it lifts curbs on overseas retailers. The New Yorker, The economist, and many other media outlets have joined in to jump on Beijing as well. Beijing claims to oppose the illicit traffic in the tusks of elephants butchered by poachers. As part of a contingent of marines from the USS Newark, Silva assisted in defending the British legation in Beijing until its relief by the allied army. Beijing has caused the two sides of the Strait to drift further apart and seriously hurt the feelings of the Taiwanese people, the caucus said in a statement. So getting Beijing to revalue the yuan won't be easy, but it's necessary. A Beijing liquor company has applied for trademark registration on a triangular logo made up of likenesses of Japanese Emperors Hirohito and Akihito and crown prince Naruhito. Previously, she worked at The New York Times as an executive, editor, and foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. So weren't we happy when not long after choofing out of Beijing on the Trans Mongolian, we happened to notice a large and pretty looking wall in the hills. When he arrived in Beijing, someone cheated him of his money. They had a quick stopover in Seattle before continuing on to Beijing. South Korean news agency Yonhap said the group cut through a wire fence to gain access to the school grounds in a northern suburb of Beijing early Friday. But since the Beijing Olympics and the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, his politics have become his art. Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas. The hotel's 738 rooms offer good views of Beijing and feature as standard executive desks, satellite television, international direct dial phones and in-room safes. The vessel, sealed and signed, was put up for auction before a small circle of artists and collectors when he returned to Beijing. The South China Sea is now the scene of one of the more serious feuds between officials in Washington and Beijing. Show More Sentences Indian food is gaining popularity in China, where there are many Indian restaurants in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing. On 21 September 1860 it defeated the army of the Chinese emperor at the Battle of Palikao and seized the capital Beijing. It is the largest palace complex in the world and is located in the middle of Beijing, China. Another example is the Summer Palace located in the northern suburb of Beijing and Mukden Palace in Shenyang. The agreement came into effect at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. These were several air quality improvement measures implemented by the Beijing government. In August 2008, the IOC issued DMCA take down notices on Tibetan Protest videos of the Beijing Olympics hosted on YouTube. During the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, the Olympic Flag was formally handed over from the Mayor of Beijing to the Mayor of London. In February 1972, Nixon announced a stunning rapprochement with Mao's China by traveling to Beijing and meeting with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. While the Dalai Lama is lauded in much of the world as a figure of moral authority, Beijing reviles the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. As of 2015 The journal has editorial offices in London, New York, and Beijing. The decision to open with The Revolution Continues was directly influenced by global interest in China as a result of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Manchus were finally able to cross the Great Wall in 1644, after Beijing had already fallen to Li Zicheng's rebels. Astronaut William Pogue thought he had seen it from Skylab but discovered he was actually looking at the Grand Canal of China near Beijing. Since then, Beijing has often offered its support to Islamabad in the way of economic assistance, but also with no-strings-attached military aid. One of the earliest expressways nationwide was the Jingshi Expressway between Beijing and Shijiazhuang in Hebei province. In Southeast Asia, many smaller mountain glaciers formed, and permafrost covered Asia as far south as Beijing. Likewise, the famous walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing were established in the early 15th century by the Yongle Emperor. Large urban centers, such as Nanjing and Beijing, also contributed to the growth of private industry. Show More Sentences When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. The Manchus then allied with former Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, which became the new capital of the Qing dynasty. On March 10, in Beijing, Shikai was sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China. After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government. The Zhoukoudian cave system near Beijing has been excavated since the 1930s and has yielded precious data on early human behavior in East Asia. With the founding of the Republic of China, Standard Mandarin was designated as the official language, based on the spoken language of Beijing. He was buried in the Changling Tomb, the central and largest mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty Tombs located north of Beijing. The emperor planned to build a massive network of structures in Beijing in which government offices, officials, and the imperial family resided. On the advice of fengshui experts, the Yongle Emperor chose a site north of Beijing, where he and his successors were to be buried. Yongle demoted Nanjing to a secondary capital and in 1403 announced the new capital of China was to be at his power base in Beijing. On 26 May 1644, Beijing fell to a rebel army led by Li Zicheng when the city gates were opened by rebel allies from within. Despite the loss of Beijing and the death of the emperor, the Ming were not yet totally destroyed. The Yongle Emperor was still in Beijing at the time, but he ordered the Ministry of Rites to give monetary rewards to the fleet's personnel. He wished to revert the relocation of the imperial capital from Nanjing to Beijing, which had happened during the Yongle reign. Therefore, Beijing remained the de facto capital and Nanjing remained the secondary capital. The Xuande Emperor remained in Beijing, which ultimately led to the aforementioned Nanjing government to become a permanent institution. The relocation of the capital north to Beijing exacerbated this threat dramatically. At considerable expense, China launched annual military expeditions from Beijing to weaken the Mongolians. In 1266, they reached the seat of Kublai Khan at Dadu, present day Beijing, China. The city of Beijing was rebuilt with new palace grounds that included artificial lakes, hills and mountains, and parks. Show More Sentences During the Yuan period, Beijing became the terminus of the Grand Canal of China, which was completely renovated. In 1312, 1,000 copies of a Buddhist text commented by Cosgi Odsir were printed just within Beijing. Liu was a painter, calligrapher, poet, and mathematician, and he became Kublai's advisor when Haiyun returned to his temple in modern Beijing. Ibn Battuta travelled from Beijing to Hangzhou, and then proceeded to Fuzhou. He often acted as regent in Nanjing or Beijing during his father's northern military campaigns. Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal. Together with Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has one of the most expensive real estate in China. On 16 June 1922, Sun was ousted in a coup and fled on the warship Yongfeng after Chen sided with the Zhili Clique's Beijing government. When orders to evict the Portuguese from Tunmen arrived from Beijing, the Portuguese refused to comply. Among them, Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Beijing have over 100,000 Manchu residents. Among many branches, Beijing wrestling adopted most Manchu wrestling moves. Octagonal drum is a type of Manchu folk art that was very popular among bannermen, especially in Beijing. Apart from the Shamanic shrines in the Qing palace, no temples erected for worship of Manchu gods could be found in Beijing. The capital was initially set at Nanjing, and was later moved to Beijing from Yongle Emperor's reign onward. When Boxers entered Beijing, the Qing government ordered all foreigners to leave. In April 1644, Li's rebels sacked the Ming capital of Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide. Diego de Pantoja made a special plea to the court, requesting a burial plot in Beijing, in the light of Ricci's contributions to China. He was known for his appreciation of Chinese culture in general but condemned the prostitution which was widespread in Beijing at the time. The next year, he traveled to Beijing in the spring and passed its provincial exam, becoming a juren. The Wanli Emperor died in 1620 and was buried in the Dingling Mausoleum among the Ming tombs on the outskirts of Beijing. Find more words! 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