Beijing Your Way

The weeklong Spring Festival Holiday in China, from Jan 23 to Jan 28, has just finished.   One of the must-to-do things during the Spring Festival is setting off firecrackers. Have you ever calculated how many tons of firecrackers paper scraps left during the Spring Festival? Here is the result from Beijing’s environmental sanitation group: [...]

It is time to get your skating tool ready, as the annual Houhai Skating Season has started.   Skating, skiing and a lot of other winter sports about ice and snow are being more and more popular with people, home and abroad.   A good skating destination in Beijing is Houhai.   There are several [...]

Exhibition: BILS(Beijing Luxury International Show) China 2011 Venue: China World Trade Center in Beijing Date: until Dec 26, Monday   Beijing Luxury International Show is an international top personal goods and advanced life exhibition.   It opened on this Friday, Dec 23, 2011 and will last four days until Dec 26, 2011.   In this [...]

Hutong Wiki is China’s largest encyclopedia website, and recently it revealed China’s Top 10 Internet Buzzwords in 2011.   1.      Hold 住（Pinyin：zhù）, means “get hold of oneself” and it is becoming popular after a Taiwanese variety show. 2.      乔布斯, the Chinese translation for Apple former CEO Steve Jobs, means that (Steve) Jobs, he passed away [...]

There will be three new limit measures to alleviate the overcrowding in Beijing’s subways: turning off the escalators, let the commuters or passengers get into the stations group by group, or slowing their walking speed by making them following “S-shape Routes” enclosed by railings.   And the time are reported to conduct the new measures [...]

Exhibition: Parallax Venue: UCCA (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art) Nave, Beijing Add.: 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing Ticket: General admission: 15 Yuan FREE for:-students (with valid ID); UCCA members (with card); children under 130 centimeters; disabled visitors;-seniors over 60 (with valid ID) FREE admission Thursd

The report, originally from Sina microblog, said that the Hello Kitty Theme Restaurant was going to be open at Shimao Department Store in Beijing’s Sanlitun.   Hello Kitty is a very popular Japanese carton figure and favored by many funs around the world, also in China.   It is also reported that the restaurant will [...]

Climbing Great Wall, eating roast duck and drink Erguotou are three must-to-do things in Beijing tour.   Nearly every foreign tourist coming to Beijing tastes the authentic Beijing Ergouotou. But seldom knows the vinification process.   Red Star is one of the often seen Erguotou brands. The Red Star Co., Ltd built an Erguotou Museum [...]

To bring more convenient for the residents in Wangjing and Haidian Shanhou of Beijing, three new bus lines has opened on Nov 14, they are No.567 from the south gate of New Pacific Town to Huixinxijie Beikou, No.570 from Yongfeng Station to Xi’erqi Station and Zhuan 38 from Yongfeng Station to Daoxianghujing.   Traffic congestion [...]

On Nov 1, unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 successfully launched in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northeast China’s Gansu Province.   And on the same day, the China Space Post Office established, with its unique permanent post code: 901001. The “Space” Post Office is directed and administrated by the CPG (China Post Group) and the operated [...]