Beijing Attractions

The Mutianyu Great Wall, 70kilometers (44miles) away from the urban area of Beijing, is located in Huairou district. It was built in the Ming dynasty and nowadays is one of the best-preserved sections of the Great Wall. With a long history and splendid culture, it enjoys great reputation at home and abroad. Basic…

Badaling, one of the must-visitsections and the most outstanding representatives of the Great Wall of China, was an important strategy center in ancient time. It was built in the Ming Dynasty, and it is situated in Yanqing District–about 75 kilometers (46 miles) northwest of Beijing. At Badaling, roads extend…

The Forbidden City, located in the center of the central axis of Beijing, is the imperial palace of Ming and Qing dynasty of China and the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. It was built during the Ming dynasty and took 14 years to complete it. The Forbidden city has three main halls as…

Temple of Heaven, located in the Chongwen District of Beijing, was built in the 18th year of the reign of emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty (AD 1420), which originally was a place for emperors to hold the worship ceremony for good harvest. The whole complex covers an area…

Basic Facts about the Water Cube (National Aquatics Center): The Water Cube, located in the Beijing Olympic park, is also known as the national aquatics center. Itis one of the landmark buildings of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.During the 2008 Olympic Games, the competitions of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water…

The Olympic park of Beijing is located in the North 4th Ring Road, Chaoyang district. It covers a total area of 1,135 hectares (2,864 acres), and it is divided into three sections. The northern section is the Olympic Forest Park covering 680 hectares (1,680 acres), which is a near-natural and biodiverse forest system composed of…

The Summer Palace, located in the western suburbs of Beijing, covers an area of about 290 hectares. It is the top of the Chinese classical garden whose original name of it is Qingyi Garden. It was built from 1750 to 1764, and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty took…

Beihai park, located in the center of Beijing, covers an area of 690,000 with the Palace Museum in the northwest. It was used to be the imperial palace garden to hold some sacrificial ceremonies for the royal family and were successively built by in Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.…

Beijing zoo, covering an area of about 86 hectares, is located in Xizhimenwai Street, Xicheng district of Beijing with the Beijing exhibition hall and the Moscow Restaurant in the east. It was built in 1906 (Qing Dynasty) which is the earliest zoo opened in north China and has the largest variety of animals. It…

Jingshan park is located in the center of the north-south central axis of Beijing with the imperial palace in the south, the Beihai in the west, and the drum tower in the north. It covers a total area of 23 hectares. It was the imperial gardens of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.…

The Lama Temple, also known as Yonghe Palace, is located in the northeast of downtown Beijing. It was built in 1694 (Qing dynasty) and the Emperor Yongzheng lived there when he was a prince, and it was changed to a lamasery in 1744. It became the national center of Lama…

Tiananmen Square, the center of Beijing, is located in Dongcheng district. Tiananmen square starts from Tiananmen Rostrum in the north, Zhengyang gate in the south, the National Museum of China in the east and the Great Hall of the people in the west, and in the center of the…

Huanghuacheng Lakeside Great Wall is located in Huairou district, 65 kilometers (40 miles) away from Beijing downtown. In Spring and Summer, the mountains and fields are full of wild yellow flowers. In Chinese, yellow flower is pronounced as “huanghua”, hence this section is called as “Huanghuacheng Great Wall”. Visitors could enjoy not…

Simatai Great Wall, located in the north of Miyun district, Beijing, is adjacent to Gubeishui town an about 150km (95miles) away from the urban area of Beijing. Simatai reservoir divides the Great Wall into east and west sections. It is the only Great Wall in China that retains the…

Jinshanling Great Wall, located in luanping county, Hebei province, is adjacent to Miyun district, Beijing, which is 130 kilometers (80 miles) away from downtown Beijing. The Jinshanling Great Wall was built in the Ming dynasty, and it is connected to Simatai Great Wall in the east and Gubeikou Great…

Wangfujing snack street, gathering abundant famous and excellent local snacks, is one of the most famous snack street in Beijing. It is located in the east side of the Forbidden City. There are more than hundreds of stores and stalls selling special snack, souvenirs, folk arts in Haoyou Shijie market. Basic Facts about…

Nanluoguxiang is a famous hutong, which is on the east side of the central axis of Beijing. It starts from Drum tower East Street (Gulou Dong Dajie) in the north and extent to Ping’an Street in the south. It is one of the oldest blocks in Beijing, which was…

798 Art District, located in Dashanzi area, Chaoyang District, covers an area of more than 600,000 square meters. Therefore, it is also called DAD (Dashanzi Art District). It was an industrial district of state-owned 798 factory and other electronic industries formerly. Nowadays, the area has become a new landmark of Beijing…

Located in the southwest of Panjiayuan bridge, East-three Ring Road Beijing, Panjiayuan antique market covers an area of 48,500 square meters. The market is divided into six business areas, including the stalls area, the ancient building area, the classical furniture area, the modern collection area, the stone carving area and the catering service…

Silk Street, also known as Silk Market or Xiushui Street in Chinese, is located in the extended line of Chang’an Street, Chaoyang District, and close to the international Central Business District of Beijing which dominates a prominent location with convenient traffic. Nowadays, it is not only the most influential…