The Guardian provided a description of the killing and eating of pangolins: " A Guangdong chef interviewed last year in the Beijing Science and Technology Daily described how to cook a pangolin: ' We keep them alive in cages until the customer makes an order.

It controls 90 % of national loans and 65 % of national insurance premiums, which makes Beijing the country's largest monetary and financial market.

This makes Shenyang-Fushun the 8th built up area in China after Pearl River Delta city ( including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Huizhou built up areas ), Shanghai-Suzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou-Shaoxing, Wuhan and Nanjing.

China's flag carrier, Air China, also makes a stop-over at Dalian on its flights from Beijing to Japan.

Fangshan has 2. 1 billion tons of coal reserves, which makes it a veritable “ coal storehouse ” in the west of Beijing ; building materials resources are also present in a variety of large deposits.

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.

Huaiyang cuisine has been praised since ancient times in China, and it was a general practice for an official travelling to Beijing to take up a new post to bring along with him a chef specialising in Huaiyang cuisine.

The official stratification was an integral part of the local culture of Beijing and it was not finally abolished officially after the end of the Qing Dynasty, which resulted in the second peak in the formation of Beijing cuisine.

He established Canadian diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, before the United States did, and went on an official visit to Beijing.

* Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San ( Pedro Yang ) and Dai Ming.

In 1899, the French Minister in Beijing helped the missionaries to obtain an edict granting official status to every order in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, enabling local priests to support their people in legal or family disputes and bypass the local officials.

Proposals for reunification were not actively floated in Taiwan and the issue remained moot under President Chen Shui-bian, who refused to accept talks under the pre-conditions insisted on by Beijing until 2008 with the presidential election of Ma Ying-Jeou, agreeing to the One China policy and stating the official government of the Chinese state is the Republic of China.

The first, " Gift ", released on July 30, 2008, was used as the official theme song to the 2008 Beijing Olympics coverage on NHK.

In 2008 and 2012, during the Olympic Games in Beijing and London, Constantine II, in his role as honorary member of the International Olympic Committee, was the official presenter at the sailing medal ceremonies.

However, there were no official reports of Simão's abuses, even though he stayed until September 1520 ; yet rumors of his behavior ( which became associated with all Portuguese ) no doubt reached as far as the court of Beijing, which would soon condemn the Portuguese for this and other reasons.

The Global Language Monitor doubted that Beijing's attempt to eradicate Chinglish could succeed ; noting that " we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games " is found on the official website of the Beijing Olympics.

Beijing still tries to compel the media to report favorably on government activities and to limit negative coverage of official policies and actions.

The Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) was established in 1968 by a leading engineering union official, Reg Birch, who had been a prominent member of the CPGB and at that time a supporter of the Beijing line in the Sino-Soviet dispute.

Choe was an official interpreter in the Korean embassies in Beijing, and so he also documented colloquial northern Chinese languages ( Haner ).

* Peng Chong, who had been by this point aggravated by Emperor Guangwu's official Zhu Fu ( 朱浮 ) into rebellion ( in a rare case of a succession of wrong decisions by Emperor Guangwu — mistakes that he learned from and would not repeat ); he claimed the title of the Prince of Yan and controlled the modern Beijing region.

The newspaper's 33 official agencies in the mainland, including Beijing, Shanghai and Yunnan, help the paper gather news in the mainland and establish relationships with local officials / advertisers.

At the beginning of 2008 flights from Kiev to the Georgian capital Tbilisi and the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty were launched by Aerosvit, E-ticketing was introduced on all Aerosvit scheduled flights, and Aerosvit Airlines again became the official air carrier of the Ukrainian National Olympic team for the XXIX Olympic Games to be held in Beijing.

He took the imperial examinations several times in attempt to become a mandarin, or imperial official, but never passed, and did not gain entry into the imperial university in Nanjing until middle age ; after that he did become an official and had postings in both Beijing and Changxing County, but he did not enjoy his work, and eventually resigned, probably spending the rest of his life writing stories and poems in his hometown.

Unlike most such official Communist parties that of New Zealand had aligned itself with Beijing after China and the Soviet Union fell out in 1961.

In the 1970s, Taiwan government suffered several blows to its international status: first, its seat at the United Nations was taken over by the People's Republic of China, then the United States established official ties with Beijing, severing those with Taipei.

The terminology is still preserved in the official translations of such schools in China since the early 20th century, Beijing Normal University being the first.

In 1979, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the highest-ranking Indian official to visit Beijing, meeting China's leaders.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty ( fall of Beijing in 1644 ) and the Manchu conquest of the entire country ( by the early 1650s ), the Jesuits in China had to switch their allegiance from the Ming Dynasty to the Manchu Qing, just as most of the Chinese literati eventually did.

Working as a photographer for five years, Tian eventually decided to switch to cinematography and found a job as an assistant cinematographer at the Beijing Agricultural Film Studio.

Aston Martin has also boosted its worldwide appeal by opening more dealers in Europe, as well as branches in China for the first time in its 93 year history in Beijing and Shanghai.

Albania's leaders abhorred the People's Republic of China's contacts with the United States in the early 1970s, and its press and radio ignored President Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing in 1972.

Luxembourg's representation in Vietnam is through its embassy in Beijing, China.

The Macau Garrison is under the command and control of the Central Military Commission, and its budget is administered by the central government in Beijing.

As Beijing has been the capital of China for centuries, its cuisine is influenced by culinary traditions from all over China, but the style that has the greatest influence on Beijing cuisine is that of the eastern coastal province of Shandong.

It was during this period when Beijing cuisine gained fame and became recognised by the Chinese culinary society, and the stratification of the foodservice was one of its most obvious characteristics as part of its culinary and gastronomic cultures during this first peak of its formation.

China's new leaders Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping both visited North Korea in 1978, although they failed to reach a common understanding on relations with the Soviet Union ( Beijing was not on friendly terms with Moscow during the 1970s, while Pyongyang continued its usual balancing act ).

In practice, however, Power rests with the Party secretary Beijing will often appoint loyal party cadres to oversee the local work as Party secretary, while the local Chairman of the region's government is regarded as its nominal head.

CCTV produced its own programs, a large portion of which were educational, and the Television University in Beijing produced three educational programs weekly.

However, on 23 August 1992 the Republic of China government, by then only in control of the island of Taiwan and a few minor outlying areas, severed diplomatic relations with South Korea in advance of its announcement of formal recognition of the People's Republic of China based in Beijing.

The Beijing government rejected some of these demands but yielded to the Japanese insistence on keeping the Shandong territory already in its possession.

Starting from the 1930s, wuxia works proliferated and its centre shifted to Beijing and Tianjin in the north.

The inhabitants of Warsaw still commonly use nicknames to refer to the palace, notably Pekin ( Beijing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name PKiN ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki ), Pajac (" clown ", a word that sounds close to Pałac ), Stalin's syringe, the Elephant in Lacy Underwear, or even the Russian Wedding Cake.

* February 4 – The Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Beijing.

After defeating his younger brother Ariq Boke, he moved his capital to Beijing ; while he fought the southern Chinese Song Dynasty, the empire saw its first significant military defeats — first in Palestine at the hands of the Mamluks of Egypt, and later in the Caucasus.

The documentary had its first showing in China on November 25, 2004 in Beijing with a film festival hosted by the Beijing Film Academy to honor the works of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Hyundai is currently working with its Chinese partner Beijing Automobile Industry Holding Co. to develop an electric car for sale only in China.

At the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in its historical exhibits.

The Grand Canal at its northern terminus at Houhai in Beijing.