Beijing's Palace Museum, one of China's most prominent landmarks, will be closed for the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve (Feb. 18) and the morning of the Chinese Lunar New Year (Feb. 19), its management announced on Wednesday.
The number of electric-vehicle charging stations in Beijing will be doubled by the end of 2015 to encourage the use of new-energy vehicles, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Beijing's temple fairs this year will be smaller and have pared down procedures and programs, while some will be canceled altogether due to safety concerns, according to the Beijing News.
The Beijing Medical Administration of Hospitals announced that the doctor-patient exchange program that was initiated in 2014 will become a yearly routine for Beijing hospitals, according to the Beijing Times.
China's environment authority on Tuesday exposed the grave pollution situation in Cangzhou, a north China city close to Beijing.
Beijing has been ranked the fourth most romantic city in the world, according to a recent Time Out Global Dating Survey of 11,000 people in 24 cities around the globe.
The concept design of Beijing's new airport, which will be the world's largest passenger airport when it is fully constructed, was completed recently, said a report from ccaonline.cn on Monday.
A five-storey gray building within the southeast corner of Beijing's Second Ring Road is one of the city's burgeoning "cancer hotels".
Beijing plans to introduce new standards for emergency volunteer service after the Spring Festival.
Radar was used to detect unauthorized basement construction in Beijing as the city gets tough on the potentially dangerous practice.
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