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Beijing

[ bey-jing ]

noun

, Pinyin.
  1. a city in and the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeastern part, in central Hebei province: traditional capital of China.


Beijing

/ ˈbeɪˈdʒɪŋ /

noun

  1. the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeast in Beijing municipality (traditionally in Hebei province); the country's second largest city: dates back to the 12th century bc ; consists of two central walled cities, the Outer City (containing the commercial quarter) and the Inner City, which contains the Imperial City, within which is the Purple or Forbidden City; many universities. Pop: 10 849 000 (2005 est) Former English namePeking


Beijing

  1. Capital of the People's Republic of China , located in the northeast region of the country. It is the second-largest city of China (after Shanghai ) and the political, cultural, financial, educational, and transportation center of the country. The West knew it for many years as Peking .


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Notes

Site of Tiananmen Square , where communist leaders suppressed a democratic protest in June 1989.
The Forbidden City, within the inner or Tatar City, was the residence of the emperor of China.
In 1949, the Chinese communists declared Beijing the capital of the People's Republic of China.

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Example Sentences

Female Olympian to head Tokyo Games after predecessor’s ouster for sexist remarks With months to go, the Tokyo Olympics are swimming against a tide of doubt A year from Beijing Olympics, coronavirus wreaks havoc with winter sports schedules

It is certainly possible that the real threat to the next technology platform will emerge first from Shanghai, or Shenzhen, or Beijing.

When Beijing blocked Clubhouse this month, the app’s users in China mourned the end of the brief period of free speech they had experienced on the audio chat app.

From Quartz

That not only would weaken Beijing’s economy, he claims, but also would create a global, anti-China alliance the US could lead.

From Vox

Jin, who had served six-year roles in both the World Bank and ADB, as well as senior finance posts in Beijing, was tapped to run the new entity.

From Time

Washington cannot let others—whether in Pyongyang or Beijing or Moscow, or Tehran—decide what Americans read or watch.

So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.

Beijing, famously, launched a coordinated and sustained attack against Google a half decade ago to injure its business in China.

The mantra in Washington is to “manage” differences with Beijing and find areas of cooperation.

Since 2013, his telecoms company Beijing Xinwei has been awarded several telephone and internet licenses.

I knew about this, of course—Beijing had been a real struggle for the ad-hocs who built it.

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