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.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

" Comoros has requested a similar program for Grande Comore and Anjouan, total population 760, 000, and Li said that Beijing has agreed in principle.

Chuanr ( Chinese: 串儿, pinyin: chuànr ( shortened from " chuan er "); " kebab "), originating in the Xinjiang ( 新疆 ) province of China and in recent years has been disseminated throughout the rest of that country, most notably in Beijing.

Commuter trains are currently uncommon in China, although a small system has been inaugurated in Beijing in 2008.

The Hong Kong Government has also a liaison office in Beijing, and an HKETO at Guangzhou, Guangdong.

Jakarta has grown more rapidly than Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Bangkok.

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

Beijing cuisine has itself, in turn, also greatly influenced other Chinese cuisines, particularly the cuisine of Liaoning, the Chinese imperial cuisine, and the Chinese aristocrat cuisine.

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.

Since then, it has undergone seven revisions, in 1990 ( London ), 1991 ( Nairobi ), 1992 ( Copenhagen ), 1993 ( Bangkok ), 1995 ( Vienna ), 1997 ( Montreal ), and 1999 ( Beijing ).

Burma has an embassy in Beijing and consulates-general in Kunming and Hong Kong.

Taiwan and Nauru had shared diplomatic ties for 22 years ; Taiwan has enjoyed diplomatic ties with several Pacific countries even in the face of the " One China policy " by Beijing.

Besides, Nordea also has representative offices in Brazil ( São Paulo ) and China ( Beijing ).

The size of the Gobi desert has increased and now reaches the outskirts of Beijing.

Of China's major airports, Beijing Capital International Airport ( PEK ), located northeast of central Beijing, has the greatest flow of passengers annually.

* Study abroad locations: unlike typical study abroad programs, Stanford itself operates in locations around the globe ; thus, each location, which ranges from Beijing to Cape Town, has Stanford faculty-in-residence and staff in addition to students, creating a " mini Stanford.

Seychelles has an embassy in Beijing.

Taito Corporation currently has a subsidiary in Beijing, China.

Beijing had been ceded to Liao in AD 938 with the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan Yun.

Dishes in Beijing cuisine that are served as main courses are mostly from other Chinese cuisines, and some of the following in particular have been central to the formation of Beijing cuisine.

By 1952 the principal telecommunications network centered on Beijing, and links to all large cities had finally been established.

By 1963 telephone wire had been laid from Beijing to the capitals of all provinces, autonomous regions, and large cities, while in turn, provincial capitals and autonomous regions were connected to the administrative seats of the counties, smaller municipalities and larger market towns.

Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the more well-known forms such as Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera, there have been many other forms of theatre in China.

* A Ming Dynasty Chinese record states that 720, 000 sheets of toilet paper ( two by three ft. in size ) alone have been produced for the various members of the imperial court at Beijing, while the Imperial Bureau of Supplies also reports that 15, 000 sheets of toilet paper alone have been designated for the royal family ( made of fine soft yellow tissue and perfumed ).

Since they are no longer relevant for defense, such cities have grown beyond their walls, and many of the walls, or portions thereof, have been torn down, for example in Rome, Italy and in Beijing, China.

India ’ s request, to open a consulate in Lhasa, capital of Tibet has been rejected by Beijing.

Unlike other officers, however, he avoided the humiliation of Chinese defeat by having been recalled to Beijing several days before the outbreak of conflict.

Thirty thousand Chinese Catholics, 2, 000 Chinese Protestants, and 200 to 400 of the 700 Russian Orthodox Christians in Beijing were estimated to have been killed.

The troops were transported by train from Dagu to Tianjin with the agreement of the Chinese government, but the railway between Tianjin and Beijing had been severed.

In the 20th century, as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan had all been lost to the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the capital of the diaspora Republic of China had been temporary relocated to Chongqing, then a major city in Sichuan.

She then traveled to Beijing where she reunited with Yu Qiwei who had just been released following his prison sentence, and the two began living together again.

Hu may have been assigned to work outside of Beijing because he was judged as being not sufficiently enthusiastic about Maoism.

For many years the film had been thought to be lost, but later was found in Beijing in 1995, although it is said that a 10 minute segment is missing.

When Zhu Di moved to Beijing, he found a city that had been devastated by famine and disease and that was under threat of invasion from Mongols from the north.

This was the first dynasty to rule the whole of China from Beijing as the capital.

The Manchu allied with the Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui to seize Beijing, which was made the capital of the Qing dynasty, and then proceeded to subdue the remaining Ming's resistance in the south.

Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a grand mausoleum.

He also described traveling further north, through the Grand Canal to Beijing, but as he neared the capital an internal power struggle among the Yuan Mongols erupted, causing Ibn Battuta and his Hui guides to return to the south coast.

The Trans-Mongolian Railway connects the Trans-Siberian Railway from Ulan Ude in Russia to Erenhot and Beijing in China through the capital Ulan Bator.

This form remained prestigious long after the capital moved to Beijing in 1421, though the speech of the new capital emerged as a rival standard.

Beijing cuisine (), also known as Jing cuisine () and Mandarin cuisine, is the cuisine of Beijing, the capital of China.

When these officials had completed their terms in the capital and returned to their native provinces, most of the chefs they brought along often remained in Beijing.

The imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, the House of Zhu, who had ancestry from Jiangsu, also contributed greatly in introducing Huaiyang cuisine to Beijing when the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing in the 15th century, because the imperial kitchen was mainly Huaiyang style.

Chinese Islamic cuisine is another important component of Beijing cuisine, and was first prominently introduced when Beijing became the capital of the Yuan Dynasty.

* Beijing, capital city of the People's Republic of China

When the Eight-Nation Alliance's armies marched into Beijing, Cixi fled the capital only to accept peace terms by paying the foreign powers huge amounts of silver.

The Viceroy of Zhili, who was responsible for the area surrounding the capital Beijing, is usually considered as the most honorable and powerful viceroy among the eight.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the capital Beijing was captured and the Summer Palace sacked by a relatively small Anglo-French coalition force numbering 25, 000.

In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Beijing after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China.

* 1403: The Yongle Emperor moves the capital of China from Nanjing to Beijing.

** moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.

Ming Cheng Zu, Zhu Di, the third emperor of Ming Dynasty shifted the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing.

* The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use ; restoration began in 1411, and was a response by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north towards his new capital at Beijing.