Beijing

[ bey-jing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pinyin.

a city in and the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeastern part, in central Hebei province: traditional capital of China.

Beijing

/ ˈbeɪˈdʒɪŋ /

the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeast in Beijing municipality (traditionally in Hebei province); the country's second largest city: dates back to the 12th century bc ; consists of two central walled cities, the Outer City (containing the commercial quarter) and the Inner City, which contains the Imperial City, within which is the Purple or Forbidden City; many universities. Pop: 10 849 000 (2005 est) Former English namePeking

Beijing

Capital of the People's Republic of China , located in the northeast region of the country. It is the second-largest city of China (after Shanghai ) and the political, cultural, financial, educational, and transportation center of the country. The West knew it for many years as Peking .

Site of Tiananmen Square , where communist leaders suppressed a democratic protest in June 1989.

The Forbidden City, within the inner or Tatar City, was the residence of the emperor of China.

In 1949, the Chinese communists declared Beijing the capital of the People's Republic of China.

Washington cannot let others—whether in Pyongyang or Beijing or Moscow, or Tehran—decide what Americans read or watch.

So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.

Beijing, famously, launched a coordinated and sustained attack against Google a half decade ago to injure its business in China.

The mantra in Washington is to “manage” differences with Beijing and find areas of cooperation.

Since 2013, his telecoms company Beijing Xinwei has been awarded several telephone and internet licenses.

I knew about this, of course—Beijing had been a real struggle for the ad-hocs who built it.

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