Stability in Asia was enhanced when Beijing won the International Olympic Committee's vote for the 2008 Olympic Games.
When Beijing Railway Bureau opened online ticket sales in January, 350 people booked train seats in the first five days.
The double-digit numbers from the earlier periods represent a slowdown from last year, when Beijing racked up an astounding 11.9% increase.
The growth of the Chinese auto industry has been under pressure in recent month compared to last year when Beijing boosted demand with tax cuts and subsidies.
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.
Schwazer broke the Olympic record in Beijing when he stormed to gold but will not travel to London to defend his title.
He looked to be on course for a place in Beijing when he trained with the rest of the squad earlier this month.
The other flight, ZH9889, hadn't yet left Beijing when the threat was received, according to the Xinhua report, but was cleared to take off after police inspected the plane.
The company is a huge beneficiary of globalisation: able not only to source its products at low cost in Asia but to sell the finished goods there as well (there was a near-riot in Beijing when customers could not buy the latest iPhone).
When you drive around Beijing (or Shanghai or Hangzhou), you see ads on buses for all these sites.
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By nine, she had started competing internationally and took silver at the Beijing Paralympics when she was 15 years old.
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Tiny American Motors (later acquired by Chrysler) was the first in when it established its Beijing Jeep joint venture in 1984.
"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.
When I was in Beijing this summer, I had the chance to catch up with an old friend, a former executive of a few publicly-traded companies.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, everybody is going to be looking at the sprints because that is where we will get the most medals when it gets to Beijing.
Nepal had agreed to a Chinese request to not allow Everest expeditions in the buildup to the Beijing games when the Olympic flame was being taken up Everest.
Kerry clarified a statement he made Saturday in Beijing, when he told reporters the U.S. could scale back its missile-defense posture in the region if North Korea goes nuclear-free.
That was the same leg which caused her withdrawal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics when she suffered multiple stress fractures and there was concern she may have aggravated the injury.
Mr Thomas acknowledged the students had initially been told there was one journalist but that, when they were in Beijing before flying into Pyongyang, they were told there would be three journalists.
After his heroics in 2004, Gonzalez had the ultimate honor bestowed upon him prior to the start of the Beijing Games when he was asked to carry Chile's flag for the opening ceremony.
It was only when foreigners started arriving in Beijing to study and work in the 1980s that a Chinese rock scene began to emerge.
The latest bout in the asylum came last week when Gazprom jetted over to Beijing to progress gas agreements, albeit with a twist.
The Phelps legend was born in Beijing in 2008 when he became the first Olympian to ever win eight gold medals in one Games.
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It will be interesting to see what happens when the high-speed Beijing-Shanghai leg of the high-speed network is completed, perhaps as early as next year.
Tomorrow and the next day I hope to have a chance when I'm in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great Wall.
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When approached at their offices in Beijing Thursday, they professed bemusement, not fear.
It then addresses a pet peeve of many in Beijing: "When entering an elevator...let people walk out before you enter, " it said.
So what will they make of his absurdist aubergine paintings when they go on display at Beijing's Red Gate Gallery next year?
Photographer Xue Yutao said he was about one minute into the movie at a Beijing theater Thursday morning when a couple of theater employees walked in and told the audience that the screening would be postponed.
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