Located in China's technology hub Zhongguancun, more than 140 young companies use Garage Cafe as a place to grow their businesses and meet investors.
Siren Music by Good Mood Good World Co, Finding Whom You Need by Beijing Kuaiyue Company, and Haogougou Aid series by Beijing AddIntel Technology Co.
Xing Zhiyuan believes ice climbing is more exhilarating than conquering the world's highest peak. He should know.
Beijingers can play a real-life version of the terrorists-versus-good guys video game Counter-Strike on ice at the Bird's Nest this winter.
China's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics has interest in snow sports booming.
It is about 2:30 in the afternoon, and Wang Xiaohong, the smoking-cessation therapist with Peking University Third Hospital, is talking with a husband and wife about ways for him to quit his habit.
Proposed regulations could help, but lifestyles remain an obstacle in a country that consumes one of every three cigarettes in the world.
Zhang Xuewen, 28, a white-collar worker in Beijing, has been smoking for three years.
As the world's largest tobacco products producer and consumer, one out of every three cigarettes consumed worldwide is smoked in China.
"In bars, you drink, and with alcohol, you smoke," said Mohamad Kheer Ferekh, 27, from Syria, in a crowded bar in Sanlitun, one of the capital's most popular bar areas.
Xu Guihua, the executive deputy director of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, said she was very happy when the State Council published the draft of a national law to control tobacco use.
It's easier than ever to buy overseas items, but that's not the real reason behind the booming ranks of China's haitao consumers.