Fresh graduates from the capital's colleges are increasingly setting their sights on opportunities in smaller cities at campus job fairs.
Four million trees will be planted in Beijing in 2011 as part of efforts to sow the seeds of a greener capital.
City planners will attempt to "wake up" Tongzhou district over the next five years with a major development aimed at creating tens of thousands of jobs.
Ministry gives folk legend's Beijing concert the green light
I was surprised the first time I asked a Chinese friend where to find second-hand clothing stores in Beijing. My Chinese friend was horrified. Chinese people would never wear someone else's old clothes, I was told. But that's not true, I later learned.
During a recent instant messaging session with my mother, who lives in central California, she complained: "Yesterday, it was really windy. I don't like it at all, it makes me really nervous." To that, I replied: "Then you wouldn't like living in Beijing." Well, for much of the year, at least.
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