On October 1st, 1949 a grand ceremony was held in Beijing to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although ...

On August 2, 1368, Ming troops seized Dadu and renamed it Beiping (Northern Peace). Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), however, made Nanjing his first capital.

His son Zhu Di renamed Beiping (Northern Peace) Beijing (Northern Capital) in 1403, and in 1421 officially made it the capital of China. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, plans were made for a ...

The novel is a historical drama set in Beijing (formerly Beiping) during the late stages of the War of Liberation (1946-49), specifically in 1948, just before the founding of the People's Republic ...

BEIJING: The seventh edition of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) started on Tuesday (Nov 5), offering countries and ...

by Xinhua writer Tai Beiping BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- At the just-concluded meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, government leaders from Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members called for ...