Consider Ligezhuang, a village nestled among low hills in Fangshan District, 50 km from central Beijing.
In Caijiawu, 28 km from central Beijing, the village committee recently signed 30-year household responsibility contracts with residents.
As I wrote recently, the skyrocketing relocation compensation costs within central Beijing make any new constructive extremely expensive.
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The eastern expansion of CBD and the Tongzhou New City ( video here, in Chinese but with lots of pictures) are just two examples of this sprawl, a trend that will likely make central Beijing property even more desirable and expensive.
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The new system could well make life easier for the central government in Beijing.
Investors have been saying this for the past two weeks, but no word yet on monetary easing from Beijing Central Bankers.
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China Central Television says Beijing's smog reached its highest level on Lantern Festival yesterday as residents set off fireworks to mark the final day of Chinese New Year.
In April, the central government in Beijing passed laws restricting residents in 43 major cities from buying second or third homes, effectively cutting property transaction volumes in many cities and slowing the building boom in housing.
In Beijing, central bank officials loosened bank lending requirements.
China Central Television and The Beijing News say police have arrested 360 suspects in a nationwide operation to rescue 70 deaf-mute people abducted by criminal gangs to work as burglars and pickpockets.
At the age of nine, Lang Lang gained a place at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing and moved there with his father, who quit his job to concentrate on his child prodigy's career.
China Central Television and The Beijing News report a return of moderate to severe air pollution in 74 cities due to bad weather and firework celebrations during the Chinese New Year holidays last week.
He began playing the piano at age 4, and at age 16 entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
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Chi Wei, a 30-year-old saleswoman at a La Perla store in Beijing's central shopping district, Wangfujing, says some customers feel insulted when she tells them about the brand.
Vobile's big break came in 2007, when the Beijing media megalith Central Chinese Television (CCTV) asked the company to help it police Olympic videoclips to prevent their spread on the Web.
Next came McDonald's, which first erected its golden arches in Beijing in a prominent central location in 1992.
Yet in a speech Wednesday, Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Beijing would continue to invest in European government debt.
SAFE, a division of the central bank, also confirmed that Beijing would manage the transition by implementing a series of small steps.
In recent days, with hospitals and health officials on alert, cases have turned up in Beijing and the populous central province of Henan.
China has reported 11 fresh cases of bird flu, with the virus now appearing in the central province of Henan and the capital Beijing.
The same applies to China Central Television's new headquarters in Beijing.
Chu Zhaohui, of the Ministry of Education's Central Institute for Educational Research, says Beijing could afford to accommodate all of its more than 400, 000 migrant children, some 40, 000 of whom have little choice but to use unlicensed schools.
On Monday, China central bank advisor Xia Bin was at a Beijing economics forum.
China's central bank governor has made it clear that Beijing is not offering any concessions on its exchange rates anyway.
China's central Air Force Command sent two reconnaissance planes from Beijing to take aerial photographs of the area, state media said, adding that 2, 600 soldiers from the People's Armed Police had already arrived in six towns in the quake zone.
Perhaps sensitive to the tenor of conversation online, China's Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday that the central government had allocated 120 million yuan to help Beijing, the coastal city of Tianjin and the northern province of Hebei fight floods, Xinhua reported.
Zhang Xiao'an, vice-chairwoman of the United Nations Association of China, came to Beijing's defence this morning on China Central Television by stressing that the Chinese Foreign Ministry made a "very clear-cut response this time".
Turning back to New Year festivities, The Beijing News recaps the highlights of Saturday's China Central Television's New Year evening gala, one of the most-watched television shows on Earth.
Rural reforms began in late 1978 in the central province of Anhui even as the party was holding its meetings in Beijing.
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