The Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a renowned general hospital in Beijing, began a 24-hour appointment registration service on Sunday to ease the morning tension of registrations and restrict scalpers' illegal sale of appointment tickets.
Insurance companies in Beijing had to pay out about 900 million yuan ($142.37 million) in compensation due to the damages caused by the floods that hit the region on July 21.
A man was injured on July 31 after he fell on a pavement that collapsed in the crossing of Baiyunlu Street and Chang'an Street in Beijing's Xicheng district, the district's governmental micro blog said.
A maternity hospital built jointly by medical institutions from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan went into trial operation in Beijing on Tuesday.
Beijing's subway lines posted a record daily passenger trips of 8.39 million on Saturday, according to the Beijing MTR Corporation.
Four more drivers have joined a growing list of people in Beijing banned from driving for life due to the serious traffic violations, bringing the total number to 292.
Talent programs are making it big among foreign students on university campuses.
An information reading device, similar to an airplane's black box, will be installed in all elevators in public places in Beijing, providing real time monitoring.
Beijing will make the largest ever investment on cultural relics restoration and renovation this year, a local cultural heritage official said on February 23.
Three people allegedly responsible for the death of a woman who fell into hot water have been detained.
Beijing plans to allocate 2.84 billion yuan ($450 million) this year to further improve the capital's notorious traffic, China News reported on Friday.
More vehicle-cleaning machines will be installed at construction sites in Beijing this year to help reduce dust emissions.
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