They grumbled about Beijing's rents and food prices, but they also knew they were doing all right - at least compared to people in their home towns.
He also raved about Beijing art duo Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and rhinoceroses, which stood, like a scattered herd, in several fair booths.
In China, stocks continued to recover from Monday's sharp drop - a fall brought about by Beijing's new measures to control the property market.
Soon after, in 1998, she started the Peach Garden school for migrants, one of about 200 around Beijing.
The twenty-something artist became interested in dough sculpting after visiting a folk-arts exhibition in Beijing about seven years ago.
Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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Now, Beijing controls about 98% of global production of this group of 17 elements.
Until 1997, I was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Trade to work in Beijing for about 14 months.
Authorities order the removal of a massive illegal rubbish landfill near Miyun Reservoir, which supplies about two thirds of Beijing's drinking water.
They also had their starter-alternator combinations in the hybrid Chery taxis that have run in Beijing since about a year prior to the start of the Olympics.
Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
Last week, one of the key Iranian leaders, Ali Larijani, who's head of their National Security Council, was in Moscow and in Beijing talking about this, and suggested that the Iranians were open to continue talks about it, but they haven't committed themselves, by no means have they committed themselves to this plan.
China also frets about the Olympic games in Beijing in August 2008, in a season when rainstorms are common.
Zimbabwe also promotes tourism from China and twice-weekly direct flights from its capital, Harare, to Beijing, are about to take off.
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NPR's Anthony Kuhn joins us from Beijing to talk about this.
Authorities have disinfected and isolated the woman's home, and officials met in Beijing on Monday about the case, but the market is still selling ducks, Xinhua reported.
"So far, so good", said one official at the state-run China International Travel Service in Beijing, when asked about booking cancellations because of the crash.
Beijing has been aggressive about pursuing clean energy.
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United Airlines flies about 40% of its fleet to Beijing, China for major repairs and mandated inspections.
Chen, a Beijing-born woman of about 40, runs her own it businesses.
On the way back to Beijing, Lang fielded calls about new contracts.
China Daily's editorial praised Mr Panetta for "singing a harmonious tune in Beijing" as he talked about building a strong military-to-military relations with China.
The Shanghai Composite ended up 0.3% at 2270.28, snapping a five-day losing streak brought about by worries about China's economic recovery and Beijing's renewed efforts to control the property market.
At the same time, Beijing promised to publish more information about its defense budget.
But Diack's personal criticism of Rogge did not finish there: he also berated him for his comments about Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt's Beijing celebrations.
While China remains committed to diversifying its energy production, Beijing has been less than enthusiastic about foreign firms reaping the benefits of its investment in renewables.
He said companies are unlikely to pull out of China in any case, but they likely will think twice about moves like shifting their regional headquarters to Beijing from places like Singapore and Hong Kong.
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