Euronews
| May 20, 2013
Living turtles, fish and salamanders in tiny bags of water are being sold in Beijing as key rings for children. To the horror of animal rights activists, the sale of live animals as trinkets is a growing trend in China, and completely legal. The ...
Reuters
| May 13, 2013
Add videographer to the list of roles dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei is mastering. The artist who often annoys Chinese officials picked up a camera to film a bloody street brawl in Beijing involving a clash between ethnic Tibetan street v...
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CCTV News
| Apr 10, 2013
China is worried about a real estate bubble. Housing prices have been rising by double digits in almost every Chinese city, and in Beijing alone have skyrocketed 22 percent in the past year. State-run CCTV News reports that the government is tryin...
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CCTV News
| Apr 10, 2013
The life of a Beijing school child just got a little easier. The city's government has issued eight new measures, including no homework for the lowest grades. State-run CCTV News reports on why the government is trying to ease young students' burd...
NTDTV
| Mar 28, 2013
A top official in Beijing has crushed Hong Kong's hopes for a genuinely democratic election in 2017 by informing the largely self-governing territory's people that although they can vote for a chief executive, the central goverment may veto their ...
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CCTV News
| Mar 22, 2013
Apple has seen phenomenal growth in China recently, where it seems everyone wants its smartphones, tablets, and laptops. But is Apple playing fair with Chinese customers? State-run CCTV investigated Apple's customer care and is claiming discrimina...
LinkAsia
| Mar 19, 2013
This past week, the 3,000 delegates of China's National People's Congress approved the selection of a new president and prime minister. Now, as they start the first of two five-year terms, LinkAsia speaks with Beijing-based scholar Zhang Lifan, Ch...
Associated Press
| Mar 13, 2013
China's National People's Congress sealed the country's once-in-a-decade leadership transition by formally confirming Xi Jinping as China's new president. Delegates approved Xi as successor to Hu Jintai by a vote of 2,952 to 1, with three abstenti...
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
Xi Jinping, China's new president, is waging a war against official ostentation. He is making modesty on the part of officials at all levels his signature issue. And as LinkAsia's Jing Gao reports, it seems to be having an impact among delegates a...
NTDTV
| Mar 7, 2013
A Sichuan official said on Thursday authorities there will continue to crack down on Tibetan self-immolation protests. Addressing the National People's Congress in Beijing, Zhang Dongsheng continued to blame the protests on Tibet's exiled spiritua...
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Peking ist die Hauptstadt der Volksrepublik China und hat eine über dreitausendjährige Geschichte. Der Name bedeutet Nördliche Hauptstadt. Peking ist heute eine regierungsunmittelbare Stadt, das heißt, sie ist direkt der Zentralregierung unterstellt und damit Provinzen, autonomen Gebieten und Sonderverwaltungszonen gleichgestellt.
Das gesamte 16.807 Quadratkilometer große Verwaltungsgebiet Pekings hat 20,69 Millionen Einwohner. Es stellt kein zusammenhängendes Stadtgebiet dar, mit seiner dominierenden ländlichen Siedlungsstruktur ist es eher mit einer Provinz vergleichbar. Von der Gesamtbevölkerung sind 11,8 Millionen registrierte Bewohner mit ständigem Wohnsitz und 7,7 Millionen temporäre Einwohner mit befristeter Aufenthaltsgenehmigung. Wird die Kernstadt als Grundlage genommen, leben in Peking 7,7 Millionen Menschen mit Hauptwohnsitz. Der Ballungsraum hat 11,8 Millionen Einwohner.
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