With authorities taking a harder stance on unlicensed audio and video download sites, Beijing's illegal DVD vendors are anxiously awaiting a possible increase in sales.
A 16-year-old boy died five hours after receiving an injection at an illegal medical clinic in Chaoyang district on Sunday, the district health bureau said.
Unfinished buildings, known as lanweilou in Chinese or rotten-tail buildings, are being revived amid the booming real estate market in Beijing.
Beijing police are warning city residents to be on the alert as a spate of telecom scams were exposed recently.
Here's a three-word answer about what to do with Beijing's beautiful, costly, often empty Bird's Nest: monster-truck shows.
The lights shining from the city's skyscrapers brighten the nighttime darkness of Beijing. Professionals in this city always work very late, either because they have to or want to, or both.
A total of 53 laborers in Beijing have recently won the title of "Outstanding Beijing Peasant Worker".
Graduates in the village cadre program all wanted to reduce poverty and have a positive impact, but many simply filed papers and acted as secretaries.
Hu Yuegao, a professor at the college of agriculture and biotechnology at China Agriculture University, has directed his research focus towards cunguan, or village officials, since 2004 and published a report on the group earlier this year. He talked with METRO reporter Meng Jing about his views on the status quo and the development of the group.
Zhang Yu, 28, has worked as a village official in Beijing's countryside for more than two years. Xiaopu village, where he now works, is the central village of Songzhuang, known far and wide as China's largest artist colony. A recent record of a day in his life by METRO reporter Qin Zhongwei shows it ranges from the mundane to the rewarding:
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