Several lines in China such as Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, the Beijing – Tianjin Intercity Railway, and the Shanghai – Nanjing High-Speed Railway, serve a similar role with many more under construction or planned.

* In the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality ( 直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì ) is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing ( see Municipality of China )

* retention of the distinction between palatalized velars and dental affricates, the source of the spellings " Peking " and " Tientsin " for modern " Beijing " and " Tianjin ".

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 ).

On 27 May 1949, the People's Liberation Army took control of Shanghai, which was one of only three former Republic of China ( ROC ) municipalities not merged into neighboring provinces over the next decade ( the others being Beijing and Tianjin ).

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

In mainland China under the administration of the People's Republic of China, the cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing are centrally-administered province-level regions, and they do not belong to any particular province.

Starting at Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou.

In Tianjin the canal heads northwest, for a short time following the course of the Yongding, a tributary of the Hai River, before branching off toward Tongzhou on the edge of the municipality of Beijing.

The water flows from Beijing toward Tianjin, from Nanwang north toward Tianjin, and from Nanwang south toward Yangzhou.

Into it flow both the Yellow River ( through Shandong province and its capital Jinan ) and Hai He ( through Beijing and Tianjin ).

The Hai River (), previously called Bai He ( Chinese: 白河 ; pinyin: Bái Hé ; literally " White River "; Pei Ho in Western sources ), is a river in the People's Republic of China which flows through Beijing and Tianjin before emptying into the Yellow Sea at the Bohai Gulf.

Because China's capital ( and second largest city ), Beijing, and the third largest city, Tianjin, both lie in the Hai He Basin, Hai He floods cause a significant loss.

In June 1998, Tianjin professor He Zuoxiu, an outspoken critic of qigong, appeared on a talk show on Beijing Television and openly disparaged qigong groups, making particular mention of Falun Gong.

Japanese troops then entered the suburbs of Beijing and Tianjin after the predictable victory.

Cao Kun, one of his trusted subordinate Beiyang military commanders, fabricated a coup d ' état in Beijing and Tianjin, apparently under Yuan's orders, to provide an excuse for Yuan not to leave his sphere of influence in Zhili ( present-day Hebei province ).

The Chinese government reluctantly acquiesced, and the next day more than 400 soldiers from eight countries disembarked from warships and traveled by train to Beijing from Tianjin.

On 5 June, the railroad line to Tianjin was cut by Boxers in the countryside and Beijing was isolated.

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.

Seymour resolved to move forward and repair the railway, or progress on foot if necessary, keeping in mind that the distance between Tianjin and Beijing was only 120 km.

However, Seymour left Tianjin, and started toward Beijing, which angered the Chinese Imperial court.

With a difficult military situation in Tianjin and a total breakdown of communications between Tianjin and Beijing, the allied nations took steps to reinforce their military presence significantly.

Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.

Standard Chinese is based on the particular Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing, with some lexical and syntactic influence from other Mandarin dialects.

Technically, both Pǔtōng ​ huà ​ and Guó ​ yǔ base their phonology on the Beijing accent, though Pǔtōng ​ huà ​ also takes some elements from other sources.

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.

Therefore, it is sometimes difficult to determine the actual origin of a dish as the term " Mandarin " is generalised and refers not only to Beijing, but other provinces as well.

There is less emphasis on rice as an accompaniment as compared to many other regions in China, as local rice production in Beijing is limited by the relatively dry climate.

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.

For onsite banquet hosting, entertainment was still provided, but foodservice establishments of this category did not have long term contracts with Beijing opera troupes, so that performers varied for time to time, and topnotch performers usually did not perform here or any other foodservice establishments ranking lower.

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.

While the protests were initially contained in Hefei, where Fang lived, it quickly spread to Beijing and other major cities.

Celebrations were prominent and not limited to the streets of Beijing and other major cities.

Falun Gong was compared to " a rat crossing the street that everyone shouts out to squash " by Beijing Daily ; other officials said it would be a " long-term, complex and serious " struggle to " eradicate " Falun Gong.

The film correctly omits foot binding, but includes numerous other anachronisms, such as the Ming era Forbidden City in Beijing ( the Sui capital was near modern Xi ' an ).

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

On 19 June, the Empress Dowager notified the legations that the diplomats and other foreigners should depart Beijing under escort of the Chinese army within 24 hours.

Chinese Generals in other areas like Mukden were recalled to Beijing with their armies to defend the capital.

On the other hand, Beijing also understands keenly that a ' peaceful unification ' is in its best interests ; that the resulting fallout from any aggressive move to regain Taiwan will be great.

The Jiajing Emperor also built three other prominent temples in Beijing, the Temple of Sun ( 日壇 ) in the east, the Temple of Earth ( 地壇 ) in the north, and the Temple of Moon ( 月壇 ) in the west.

The next day, students in Beijing as a whole went on strike, and students in other parts of the country responded one after another.

The campus of Tsinghua University is located in northwest Beijing, in the Haidian district which was designated for universities and other academic institutes.

Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities, which border each other, were carved out of Hebei.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.