Épingles correspondant à place:Beijing

Quanjude opened in 1864 and made its name on a method: hanging the ducks in an open oven over fruitwood rather than closing them in, which crisps the skin differently. The dish it standardised is the one the world now calls Peking duck, and the carving at the table is part of it.

Richard Nixon spent 21 to 28 February 1972 in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, meeting Mao Zedong on the day he arrived. No sitting US president had set foot in the People's Republic, and the two governments had had no diplomatic relations for 23 years.

From 1 January 1979 Washington recognised the People's Republic as the sole legal government of China and withdrew recognition from Taipei, ending thirty years in which the United States had treated the Republic of China on Taiwan as the government of all China.

China's Ministry of Commerce slashed its second-half 2010 rare earth export quotas by 72%, tightening its grip on the roughly 97% of global rare earth supply it mined at the time. The move, framed as an environmental crackdown on unregulated mining, sent rare earth prices soaring within days.

The Legend of Hei (Luo Xiaohei Zhanji) opens in Chinese theaters, an original fantasy film about a displaced cat spirit who is separated from a band of spirit creatures by a mysterious human and must decide where his loyalties lie.

Beijing opened Daxing International Airport, a vast starfish-shaped terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to relieve pressure on the capital’s overcrowded main airport.

Zaha Hadid Architects’ twisting Beijing skyscraper opened with a 194-metre atrium spanning two towers built around a live subway line.

The Chinese donghua All Saints Street begins streaming, an ONA about a young demon named Nini secretly living among vampire, werewolf, and angel roommates while hiding an ancient evil sealed within him.

China's housing ministry issued a nationwide notice halting construction of any new building taller than 500 metres and tightly restricting towers over 250 metres.

All Saints Street 2 premieres, HMCH's second-season continuation of the Chinese ONA about a struggling fortune-telling shop on a street where monsters live quietly among humans.

China's housing ministry tightened its skyscraper rules nationwide, barring any new building over 150m in cities under 3 million people and capping larger cities at 250m.

All Saints Street 3 premieres, HMCH's third-season continuation of the Chinese ONA about a struggling fortune-telling shop on a street where monsters live quietly among humans.

HMCH's The Legend of Hei 2 opens in Chinese theaters, continuing spirit-cat Hei's adventures as he and fellow disciple Luye uncover a conspiracy threatening the human and spirit worlds.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

False Memory (2026), a Chinese donghua original streamed on Bilibili, follows Guan Chao's search for the "Burning Stone" needed to power his Time Gun, an accidental fall into the Memory Administration Bureau, and the fights to recover corrupted memories with fellow administrators.

The second edition brought 2,056 robots from 666 teams to the National Speed Skating Oval for 51 events, from football and tug of war to firefighting drills. Tiangong Ultra took the humanoid 100 m to 8.86 seconds - faster than Usain Bolt's human record.

Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.

A 3.5 km fully underground northern extension carries the Daxing airport line one stop on from Caoqiao to Lize Shangwuqu in Fengtai District, bringing the airport service closer to central Beijing. Work on the extension started in 2020.

The 21st World Athletics Championships are held at the Beijing National Stadium, the second time the city has hosted after 2015. Ten days of track and field in the stadium built for the 2008 Olympics.

Phase 1 of Line 28 runs 8.877 km with nine stations beneath Chaoyang's Central Business District, from Dongdaqiao to Guangqudonglu by way of Guanghualu, Dawang Lu and Beijing East railway station. Construction started in July 2021.