Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China Central Committee, one of the four municipalities, the national political, economic, cultural, scientific research, education and international exchange center. Secondary to Shanghai, Beijing as China's second largest city.
Beijing has more than 3,000 years, the city built 850 years of history and the history of its capital, is the world's largest cities in the world's cultural heritage, but also historical and cultural city and the ancient capital of China, one of the eight. As early as 70 years ago, the Beijing Zhoukoudian area on the emergence of primitive communities, "Peking Man."
Only a very few cities in the world as long as Beijing, as a country's political and cultural center. Its meta-self-Yuan of Chinese culture since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with many monuments and cultural landscape. "Encyclopaedia Britannica" will be Beijing described as "One of the world's great cities".