Half of the existing residential buildings in Beijing will adopt a metered charging method for heating by 2015 in a bid to realize the city's energy-saving goals, municipal authorities have said.
One year after the State Council approved an administrative adjustment of Beijing, the new Dongcheng district is developing into a new, more modern community.
Beijing will be holding an international brands festival, Sept 3 to 5 to help turn a major shopping thoroughfare - Wangfujing St - into a place for exchanges between domestic and international brands.
Against the backdrop of a screen showing white clouds wandering across a crystal blue sky, poets chanted words that resonated with the Dutch music.
Wang Xiaomin, principal of Xiyangyang Kindergarten in Beijing's Daxing district, had to announce to 180 children that their school would be closed for safety reasons from Thursday, the day the new semester starts.
The Beijing municipal government is looking to increase the number of certified social workers in the city, an official said on Tuesday.
When real estate agencies in this city sell a house that has already been lived in, they will be able to charge commission fees amounting to no more than 2 percent of the house's price, according to a new regulation.
The capital city will cap its annual coal consumption at 20 million tons by 2015, as part of its plan to release less carbon and further reduce air pollution.
"To some extent, where people are born largely determines their chances of educational success," sociologist Gu Jun said.
A Peking University professor has been removed from teaching post after his affair with a woman who allegedly blackmailed him was exposed by local media, according to a statement from the university Sunday.
Beijing's education authority has denied reports that Growing Steps is the city's first sex education textbook for primary and middle school students.
Three men suspected of making and selling fake paint in the outskirts of this city have been detained and are likely to face stiff punishments in the future.
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