Beijing Road and Subway Construction.
Before 1949,there were few thoroughfares in the city of Beijing except in some downtown areas.Most of the streets were muddy roads.There were only 5 buses and 49 tramcars for the whole city.Since the founding of the People's Republic,priority has been given to road building.The 40-kilometer-long(25-mile-long) Chang'an Avenue(Everlasting Peace Avenue),is the main boulevard running from east to west through the center of the city.The Ring Roads and highways to different directions were built and contributed greatly to the area??s transport capacity.
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Beijing Olympic
Friday, July 25, 2008
Birth of an Olympic Superpower
Category: News and Politics
Birth of an Olympic superpower
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream - that one day China would host the Olympic games. That dream is now about to come true.
Olympic Dreams
China and Sports, 1895-2008
The modern Chinese word for, sport, tiyu, didn't exist until the 1890s and that late 19th-century Chinese attitudes towards the body and physical training "were ambivalent, to say the least . . . Chinese elites generally considered sports undignified - a robust body was not consistent with the idea of the cultured gentleman". But as the Chinese empire crumbled and morale was crucially undermined by the country's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, Chinese people became convinced that their nation was a "sick man" whose body needed to be strengthened through a regime of rigorous physical exercise. Sun Yat-sen, China's first president, declared that "If we want to make our country strong, we must first make sure our people have strong bodies."
Nationalists stressed the need for shangwu or "warlike spirit", and Avery Brundage, later president of the International Olympic Committee, wrote in the 1930s that as a result of physical fitness being neglected, "The highly intellectual citizens of China have allowed themselves to be plundered by their own bandits for generations."
China's contact with the emergent Olympic movement was slow and hesitant, and although a national Olympic committee was formed in 1922, China did not participate in an Olympiad until 1932. Its team in Los Angeles consisted of just one man, Liu Changchun, a sprinter, and he was only dispatched at the last minute due to money problems. China took part much more enthusiastically in the notorious 1936 Berlin Olympics, sending 69 athletes, but failed to win a single medal. Xu devotes little attention to these games and says even less about the 1948 London Olympics, at which the penniless Chinese team stayed in a primary school and cooked their own meals.
Mao Zedong, in his first published article, declared that "Physical education . . . should be the number one priority." But the Communist party had little awareness of the Olympics when it came to power in 1949, and it took some time for the new government to realise that one of China's three IOC members had chosen to remain on the mainland rather than flee to Taiwan. At the urging of the Soviet Union, China made a last-minute application to participate in the 1952 games in Helsinki, but its delegation arrived just one day before the closing ceremony. The delay was largely caused by the "two Chinas" dispute that continues to haunt the Olympics to this day.
China first became an Olympic powerhouse at the Los Angeles games in 1984, when it won 15 golds. At the Athens Olympics in 2004 it came second only to the United States.
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Birth of an Olympic Superpower
Category: News and Politics
Birth of an Olympic superpower
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream - that one day China would host the Olympic games. That dream is now about to come true.
Olympic Dreams
China and Sports, 1895-2008
The modern Chinese word for, sport, tiyu, didn't exist until the 1890s and that late 19th-century Chinese attitudes towards the body and physical training "were ambivalent, to say the least . . . Chinese elites generally considered sports undignified - a robust body was not consistent with the idea of the cultured gentleman". But as the Chinese empire crumbled and morale was crucially undermined by the country's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, Chinese people became convinced that their nation was a "sick man" whose body needed to be strengthened through a regime of rigorous physical exercise. Sun Yat-sen, China's first president, declared that "If we want to make our country strong, we must first make sure our people have strong bodies."
Nationalists stressed the need for shangwu or "warlike spirit", and Avery Brundage, later president of the International Olympic Committee, wrote in the 1930s that as a result of physical fitness being neglected, "The highly intellectual citizens of China have allowed themselves to be plundered by their own bandits for generations."
China's contact with the emergent Olympic movement was slow and hesitant, and although a national Olympic committee was formed in 1922, China did not participate in an Olympiad until 1932. Its team in Los Angeles consisted of just one man, Liu Changchun, a sprinter, and he was only dispatched at the last minute due to money problems. China took part much more enthusiastically in the notorious 1936 Berlin Olympics, sending 69 athletes, but failed to win a single medal. Xu devotes little attention to these games and says even less about the 1948 London Olympics, at which the penniless Chinese team stayed in a primary school and cooked their own meals.
Mao Zedong, in his first published article, declared that "Physical education . . . should be the number one priority." But the Communist party had little awareness of the Olympics when it came to power in 1949, and it took some time for the new government to realise that one of China's three IOC members had chosen to remain on the mainland rather than flee to Taiwan. At the urging of the Soviet Union, China made a last-minute application to participate in the 1952 games in Helsinki, but its delegation arrived just one day before the closing ceremony. The delay was largely caused by the "two Chinas" dispute that continues to haunt the Olympics to this day.
China first became an Olympic powerhouse at the Los Angeles games in 1984, when it won 15 golds. At the Athens Olympics in 2004 it came second only to the United States.
HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGFEELING.COM
Rivers and Reservoirs
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Beijing Rivers and Reservoirs
There are three rivers running through the North China Plain,the Chaobai River,as well as the Northern Grand Canal.Of the three,Yongding River runs the longest course across the area,where it flows more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) out of its tatal length of 650 kilometers(miles).There are also 83 reservoirs in Beijing area.The best known of them are :the Miyun Reservoir(1960),the Guanting Reservoir(1955),the Huairou Reservoir(1958).
Beijing Rivers and Reservoirs
There are three rivers running through the North China Plain,the Chaobai River,as well as the Northern Grand Canal.Of the three,Yongding River runs the longest course across the area,where it flows more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) out of its tatal length of 650 kilometers(miles).There are also 83 reservoirs in Beijing area.The best known of them are :the Miyun Reservoir(1960),the Guanting Reservoir(1955),the Huairou Reservoir(1958).
Sunday, July 20, 2008
A short history of Beijing
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More than three thousand years ago,a city,or rather a citadel,appeared near the very site of present-day Beijing.Settlers grouped into tribes,which,in turn,strove their way toward a preliminary statehood.The first recorded city was called 'Ji'.It was later conqured by state called 'Yan',and the city was made the capital of the conqueror.Yet the exact founding date of the city of Ji had been a topic of argumentation among historisans for many years because of the lack of detailed records until it was recently dated 1045BC.In 1995 a series of celebration events were dedicated to commemorating the city's 3,040th anniversary.
Owing to its strategic position,the city of Ji remained crucial as a key point in North China through dynasties.In the course of about 1,000 years from the Empire of Qin(221-209BC) to the Sui and Tang dynasties(581-905AD),it was consecutively a major trading center and a place of strategic importance.Ever since the 10th century,the city had been decided on as the capital of the Liao,Jin,Yuan,Ming and Qing dynasties until 1911.
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