Beijing in formation info

Location:	Beijing- The capital of China is located in the northern part of the North China Plain and its terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast.
	Area:	16,807.8 sq km
	Climate:	The climate in Beijing is of the continental type, with cold and dry winters, due to the Siberian air massses that move southward across the Mongolian Plateau. The summers are hot owing to warm and humid monsoon winds from the southeast bringing Beijing most of its annual precipitation. January is the coldest month and July is the warmest. Winter usually begins towards the end of October. The summer months, June to August, are wet and hot with about 40% of the annual precipitation.
	provincial capital:	Beijing
	Population:	13.82 millions (March 2001)
	Ethnic groups:	The permanent residents of Beijing come from all of China's 56 ethnic groups. The Han nationality accounts for 96.5% of the total. The other 55 ethnic minorities claim a population of more than 300,000, most of them are from Hui, Manchu, and Mongolian nationalities.
	Agriculture:	In 1994, the gross value of agricultural output reached 28.69 billion yuan (non-agricultural output value accounting for 79.5%). The gross value of rural industrial output accounted for 40.2% of the city's gross value of industrial output in 1994. The main cereals are wheat, corn, and rice. The total amount of grain output was 2,761 million tons, and per-hectare yield was 6,420 kilograms. There are 541 farms where each farmer is responsible for more than 6.6 hectares. Mechanization in agriculture has been basically realized in plain areas, and various kinds of bases can provide abundant sideline products.
	Industry:	Beijing's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 82.9 billion yuan in the first five months of 2000, up 12 percent over the same period of last year, with high-tech enterprises leading development, according to Beijing Youth Daily. From January to May, the added value of Beijing's industrial output was 6.35 billion yuan, up 18.8 percent over the same period of the previous year.

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Beijing Capital International Airport

Location: Beijing Capital International Airport is situated in the Shunyi District of the city, about 25 km (about 15.5 miles) northeast of Tiananmen Square, and is China's busiest and most important international airport.

Brief Intro: Beijing Capital International Airport was opened to public in 1958. With the development of civil aviation and the subsequent increase in passenger traffic, the airport has twice been extended, firstly in 1980 and then in 1999. Nowadays it has a 4E standard flight area, at present there are two terminals and a third is under construction. The high standard of services and facilities has attracted 66 airlines to operate here. Currently, the airport has flight connections to some 88 domestic and 69 foreign cities.

Facilities:

No. 1 Terminal Building

A Passengers' Changing Room is located on the first floor of the Terminal Building, on the west of the Baggage Reclaim Hall.

Business Center: This offers facsimile facilities, photo-copying, printing, mobile phone re-charging, on-line connection via PC as well as for personal laptop computers. Situated on the second floor at the eastern end of the hall, the opening hours are from 08.30 to 20:00. (Note: we suggest you make prior inquiries should you require document binding or wish to purchase an IC phone card. As these are not available at all centers)

Rest Room:
VIP 'red carpet' Rest Room: is located in the public region of the hall.
Rest Room for Mother and Infant: situated in the northern part of No. 25 Boarding Gate of the Domestic Limited Area.
Time Rest Room: Use of this facility is be charged by time. You can dial the phone number through 010 - 64598932 (domestic) or 010 - 64598943 (international) to communicate with the staff directly.
In addition, there is the Gotone Club of China Mobile and the Honorable Guest Room of China Unicom of Airport that offer rest rooms for their customers in the airport.

Smoking Room: there are two smoking rooms in the lounge building. They are situated respectively in the sides of the Boarding Gate of east and the west lounge areas for later flights.

Public Phone: the airport offers common IC phone and phone card sales on the first floor of the arrival hall and the second floor of the departures hall and also near the Boarding Gate in the lounge hall.

Water Fountain: water dispensers are placed at various locations in the lounge providing drinking water: These are both pure water with disposable paper cups and automatic machines dispensing cold and hot water.

Clinic: situated on the first floor at the western end of the hall, it provides a 24-hour service for visiting patients in the terminal building, first aid, receiving and sending by ambulance, transmitting patients, etc. It offers for sale all kinds of first-aid and common use medicines from 07:00 to 21:00 daily. Passengers can dial 010 - 64591919 for first aid.

No. 2 Terminal Building

Passengers' Changing Room: situated in the Baggage reclaim Hall. One is located to the east of No. 14 carousel of Domestic Baggage Reclaim area and the other is near the No. 4 carousel of International Baggage Reclaim area.

Business Centers: These are situated opposite Gate 14 on the second floor of the Departure Hall, beside Gate 34 of the Domestic Departure Lounge and between the Boarding Gates 10 and 11 in the International Departure Lounge. These provide facilities during the same hours as described above in relation to the Terminal One building. (Note: we suggest you make prior inquiries should you require document binding or wish to purchase an IC phone card. As these are not available at all centers)

Rest Room: Rest rooms as described above for Terminal One are available in this building and are clearly signed.

Smoking Room: Six smoking rooms are provided in this lounge building. These can be found adjacent to Gate 7 on the first floor and International Boarding Gates 14, 28 and 36.

Public Phone: this lounge provides two kinds of public phones which are the common IC phone and web phone of 'mianmaintong'.

Water Fountain: There are three kinds of water supply provided in this lounge: forty sets of common pure water dispensers with disposable paper cups, twelve automatic watering machines offer cold, hot and chilled water, eight sets of automatic electronic heater, which will ensure your healthy drinking.

Clinic: located to the opposite of the No. 12 of the Leaving Hall at the second floor, it provides for visiting patients in the terminal building, first aid, receiving and sending by ambulance and transmitting patients, etc. from daily 06:30 to 22:00. Also all kinds of first-aid medicines and common use medicines are offered for sale.

Beijing City

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. After 1949, the city's name returned to Beijing, as it is known today.

Beijing City is an independently administered municipal district. She is situated in the northeastern part of China at an elevation of 43.5m above sea level. The climate in Beijing is of the continental type, with cold and dry winters and hot summers. January is the coldest month (-4 Celsius), while July the warmest (26 Celsius).

Beijing has a whole area of 16808 sq km (about 6500 sq mi), stretching 160 kilometres from east to west and over 180 kilometres north to south. She has 18 districts and counties with Dongcheng, Xicheng, Xuanwu, Chongwen, Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai and Shijingshan in the surburbs and Fangshan, Mengtougou, Changping, Tongxian, Shunyi, Daxing, Huairou, Miyun, Pinggu and Yianqing in the outer suburbs. Population in Beijing is about 12 million.

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Beijing Claims Computers Hacked

fficial Acknowledgment of Inferiority?! -- Beijing Claims Computers Hacked

-- Micky's humble opinion: Like China's faked products, Chinese
government's imitation statement ignored some important facts: China is
the only country built a "Great Fire Wall" named "Golden Shield" , China
is the only country who deployed a net-army numbering in hundreds of
thousands, are these "extra efforts" with chinese characteristics all for
nothing? --

Beijing Claims Computers Hacked
By Xiao Jing
Voice of America
Sep 15, 2007

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- CCP's Cyberattack on U.S. Networks Thursday, September 13, 2007

WASHINGTON D.C.—China's Ministry of Information Industry recently
claimed that large amounts of state and military confidential data were
stolen through the Internet. Foreign enemies are using the Internet as a
major destructive tool.

However, dissidents think the statement is an excuse to intensify
Beijing's control over the Internet and to repudiate western countries
recent accusations of Beijing hacking into western governments websites.

In the September issue of Forum for Chinese Party and Government Staff,
an official publication of the China Central Party School, Lou Qinjian,
Deputy Minister for Information Industry, said in an article that the
Internet has become foreign enemies' major tool for political
infiltration and hacking into high priority departments.

Lou also claims that in recent years large amounts of confidential
documents from the Party, the government, and the military have been
stolen through the Internet and have caused Beijing great harm. Lou
declined to give details of the espionage but urged Beijing to take
sweeping measures to monitor all Internet information in order to stop
computer threats.

Recently Beijing denied western media's reports accusing them of hacking
into government computers in the U.S., Germany, and England. Some
observers believe Beijing's accusation of western hackers at this
particular moment is to denounce western media reports and find an
excuse to further control Internet information.

Huang Qi, administrator of 64tianwang.com and renowned dissident, said
Beijing's statement of confidential information leaking through Internet
isn't logical, "A lot of cases of military corruption and human rights
violation against veterans are exposed on the Internet. The authorities
claimed that is 'leaking military secrets.' Authorities often
oversimplify the classification and eventually put public information or
human rights violation news as confidential, and suppress it".

An observer said human rights ideology is widespread in China now and
people want to participate in politics. The arrival of the Internet
helps people to voice their opinion more powerfully. Beijing senses this
trend is threatening its dictatorship and has to continue to intensify
its suppression of information freedom.

Huang said that the Internet provides a powerful publication tool for a
democratic movement in China. It's getting harder for Beijing to block
any information it wants. Technically China can maximize its suppression
of freedom on the Internet but not beyond a certain point; this
suppression will harm China's business and information technology, and
retard the development of the nation's economy.

"The Internet is a double-edged sword. With proper use, authorities can
push society to greater prosperity and civilization. At the same time,
information flow will promote democracy in China and destroy the Chinese
Communist Party's totalitarianism," said Huang.

An analyst said suppressing freedom of information on the Internet is a
clear policy in China and the technology to control the Internet is
maturing quickly. Freedom of speech on the Internet in China will still
be heavily suppressed for a while. However, in the long run, surging
Internet information will crash China's "Internet Berlin Wall."

Beijing makes its move in Latin America

Beijing makes its move in Latin America
Peter Zhang
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 10 May 2004
It's been more than four years since I wrote about the danger that Beijing
poses in South and Central America. I stressed at the time that Hutchison
Whampoa is an arm of the Chinese government and that the company's chairman,
Li Ka Shing, was an unofficial government minister.
Despite knowing these facts President Clinton still insisted on the canal
passing into Beijing's hands, even though he knew the company had corruptly
obtained the lease.
China's Defence Minister, Chi Haotian, has said that war with the United
States is inevitable. As Chi well knows there is more than one way to wage
war ? and this is where the canal comes in. It provides Beijing with a base
from which to create enormous mischief for the US while piously claiming
that its presence is merely a commercial one.
The word is out that acting through Castro's agents and Chinese crime lords,
Beijing is already heavily involved in running drugs into the US. To Beijing
drugs are merely another weapon in its unofficial war against the US. Two
other weapons are terrorism and subversion.
Drug revenues were be used to finance terrorists whose activities will, it
was hoped, destabilise the region, particularly Mexico, thus tying up US
military and intelligence resources. (Beijing also knows it can count on
America's mainstream media to sympathetically report on left-wing terrorist
activities).
Much of this has already come to pass. One needs to look no further than
Colombia and Venezuela to see that Marxist subversives and terrorists are
well organized, ruthless and on the march.
I remarked that that it was being said in certain Beijing quarters that
Mexico would play a central role in this strategy. It was assumed that
encouraging political and social turmoil in Mexico would, for example, spur
many more Mexicans to seek sanctuary in the US, forcing Washington to
strengthen its southern boarder while antagonizing Mexico City in the
process.
Beijing believed that a flood of Mexicans immigrants would provoke a
backlash which in turn would whip up anti-American feeling south of the
border, never a difficult task. It never occurred to Beijing that America
would tolerate a massive flow of illegal Mexican immigrants.
The central player ? perhaps I should say puppet ? in Beijing's scheme is
Fidel Castro. I did say at the time that an official had confided in me that
Beijing has successfully enlisted Fidel Castro as an ally and that he was to
be heavily supplied with weapons and cash. South America was to be the
weapons eventual destination.
Once again it has come to pass. (I'm feeling quite prophetic). The cash was
be used, along with drugs, to finance revolutionary groups, buy off
officials, finance subversion and corrupt politicians. This is precisely
what Castro's embassy officials were doing in Mexico City and that is why
Vincente Fox had them expelled.
I was also told that Chinese intelligence had invested a great deal in a
Venezuelan army or former army officer who is linked to the DGI (Castro's
KGB). Unfortunately, the official was not prepared to say anything further
on the subject. It no longer matters as we now know for certain that the
former army officer is Chavez.
I explained at the time that rumour had it that Beijing initially intended
to form a Latin-American triangle consisting of Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia
with Castro at the apex and Panama in the centre.
The triangle was to be the heart of the Beijing's plans for the region.
Despite the fact that some thought the plan too bold, at least at this
stage, the regime has become even more ambitious, hoping to extend the
triangle so that it includes Brazil and the Argentine.
It believes that Iraq and the war on terror will prove so much of a
distraction that for the US that it will not be able to direct the necessary
intelligence resources to the region. However, there are still those who
think that Beijing should tread carefully.
They point out that Castro is aging and his regime is highly unpopular. They
feel that should he die or fall seriously ill the regime would be swept away
by a popular revolt with embarrassing results for Beijing.
Others have counter with the argument that the machinery of repression is so
entrenched in Cuba and the populace so demoralised that Beijing's people
will have no problem in taking the reins of power. In any case, should the
worse happen any evidence connecting Beijing to subversion and drug running
would be quickly destroyed.
Moreover, these people argue that there is absolutely nothing to fear from
America's mainstream media which is still besotted with Castro as is the
Black Caucus. As evidence for this view they cite not only the media's
hostility toward President Bush but their attempts to undermine victory in
Iraq. So why should the media treat South America any differently from Iraq?
It's particularly revealing that Beijing appears convinced that most
Democratic members of Congress and the Senate would play down any
connections Beijing establishes with Castro and that they can be counted on
to dismiss China's presence in the region as hysteria just as they dismiss
Castro's subversive activities
Beijing's strategy is not primarily one of establishing pro-Chinese regimes
but of creating a massive running sore that will drain US political and
military resources. This, the regime reasons, will weaken America's Asian
presence and so make it easier for China to drive her out of the
Pacific-Asian region, leaving Hawaii as its only Pacific base.
This is not a fantasy. Why else did Beijing provide missile know-how and
nuclear weapons technology to the likes of North Korea, Pakistan, Iran and
Libya? Because it would generate political tension and fuel conflicts that
would tie up US military resources.
Four years ago I wrote:
"? why did Clinton allow the canal to fall into Beijing's hands? Because,
incredible as this will seem, he thinks of Beijing as a 'strategic partner'
of sorts and not a potential enemy. Clinton belongs to that peculiar school
of thought that sees conflict, particularly war, as the tragic outcome of
misunderstandings between basically decent and reasonable people ? except
for fascists, of course, meaning those who challenge his beliefs and
premises. Impervious to reality, those who cling to this suicidal-like
vision accuse their critics of bad faith and dismiss their patriotic
warnings as alarmist, ridiculous, hateful and so on".
As Islamofascists strive to demoralize allied troops the American media and
many Democratic politicians and their followers direct their anger and hate
not against those who murder American troops but against President Bush,
just as Beijing strategists predicted.
The only thing Beijing's warlords understand and respect is power and the
will to use it. America still has the power and, under Bush, has
demonstrated the will to use it. So guess whom Beijing is rooting for in the
coming presidential election? Clue: it isn't Bush.