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The Renminbi (Chinese: 人民币) is the official currency of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It is the legal tender in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong and Macau. Unit: Yuan, Jiao (some times called “Mao ” ) and […]

The Beijing city wall was a series of fortifications built between 1436 and 1553. The Inner city wall was 24 km long 20 metres thick at ground level and 12 metres thick at the top. The wall was 15 metres high, […]

The Drum and Bell towers are situated at the northern end of the central axis of the Beijing Inner City to the north of Di’ anmen Street. The Drum Tower was built in 1272 during the reign of Kublai Khan, […]

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Coal Hill Park also called Jinshan  (literally “Prospect Hill”) is an artificial hill in Beijing.Covering an area of more than 230,000 m², Jingshan is immediately north of the Forbidden City on the central axis of Beijing. Originally an imperial garden, it is […]

Beihai Park is an imperial garden to the northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing. First built in the 10th century, it is amongst the largest of Chinese gardens, and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces and temples. Since 1925, […]

Qianmen Street, after one-year-long reconstruction, has been reopened in 2009, and it has reproduced the old Beijing’s look and feel. Qianmen Street has history of more than 570 years. It was called Zhengyangmen Street during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, […]

The museum was established in 2003 by the merging of the two separate museums that had occupied the same building since 1959: the Museum of the Chinese Revolution in the northern wing (originating in the Office of the National Museum […]