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	Beijing Subway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Beijing Subway, Beijing Underground or Beijing Metro (Chinese: 北京地铁 ; pinyin: Běi Jīng Dì Tiě) is a subway system that serves the greater Beijing area and its various outlying suburbs.
		The first stretch of the Beijing Subway, from Beijing Railway Station to Pingguoyuan, opened on October 1, 1969.
		On September 20, 1984 the rest of the loop line was opened, and the Beijing subway was henceforth operated as two lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beijing_Subway (964 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Letter from Beijing
		Beijing is a border zone, the wellspring of oppressive foreign dynasties.
		To know Beijing is to understand that, while capital of a vast country, with elite universities, brilliant intellectuals and a sophisticated audience, it is historically a conservative, even backward city, far away from the open ocean and liberating influences from abroad.
		Beijing is both birthplace of the democracy movement and heartland of 2,000 years of autocracy.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/napack/napack8-30-00.asp (1502 words)

	the Great Wall of China in Beijing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Beijing Zoo (Beijing Dongwuyuan)* * * * *
		Beijing has some of the most distinguished and prestigious educational institutions in the nation and quite a few are well known internationally as well.
		Beijing University and Qing Hua University have been considered, for a very long period of time, to be two of the most outstanding schools in the country.
	www.chinaonyourmind.com /chinatravel/chinacity/beijing.html (13186 words)

	JBTI Tours & Packages
		Beijing Metro - Beijing is a large city where your destination will usually not be at a great distance.
		Beijing is surrounded by the Yanshan Mountains on the west, north and east while the small alluvial plain of the Yongding River lies to its southeast.
		Beijing stands on this terrain and faces the Bohai Sea, which is also called the Beijing Bay.
	www.jbti.com /beijing.html (655 words)

	Beijing Metro Inviting International Tenders
		Beijing has already invited international tenders to revise its plan for metro construction.
		The current metro line construction plan was based on the guidelines of the General Planning of Beijing for Urban Development up to 2010, approved by the State Council.
		It consists of 13 metro and city rail lines covering 408 km—54 km of which are currently in use.
	www.china.org.cn /english/investment/21470.htm (251 words)

	Accommodation in beijing during Olympics - Residences, lodgings, Apartments, Houses,Rooms, Villas, Hotels, residence, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		beijing metro is one of the most modern transportation system in the world.
		The climate in Beijing is of the continental type, with cold and dry winters and hot summers.
		Beijing has a whole area of 16808 sq km (about 6500 sq mi), stretching 160 kilometres from east to west and over 180 kilometres north to south.
	www.beijing-olympic-games.biz /China.htm (775 words)

	My China Trip 2004 - Walking Around in Beijing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Still, with judicious use of the Beijing Metro and a spring in your step, you can reach pretty much anything within the Loop Line of the metro, which encircles Beijing along the same path as the old Tartar City wall.
		All the police (dark blue uniform), the Beijing security force (dark forest green/grey uniform), and the military (green uniforms)--whether they were men or women (mostly men), were very tall and young.
		Beijing is a mass of pavement, yet liberally spread throughout the city are vast parks and lakes.
	home.att.net /~s.mon/china/beijing2.html (2105 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Non-governmental capital to be transfused in Beijing's metro market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Beijing has decided to allow non-governmental investment into the capital's metro market in future, said Zhou Zhengyu, vice director of the Beijing municipal communications commission.
		Four new metro lines under construction or to be constructed would be opened to social capital, said the official.
		Beijing was scheduled to spend 230 billion yuan (about 27.8 billion US dollars) in infrastructure construction from 2004 to 2008, in which 180 billion yuan (about 21.8 billion US dollars) would be spent on light rail and highway construction.
	english.people.com.cn /200405/25/print20040525_144349.html (167 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| METRO > Manila, Beijing working to set up security dialogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cruz, a lawyer appointed to the defense post last month, said he was due to meet senior Chinese defense and military officials in Beijing by the first week of November to broaden and deepen relations.
		Cruz’s official trip follows President Arroyo’s state visit to Beijing in early September and a high-level military mission to observe Chinese army exercises in Wanchu last week.
		Manila and Beijing established formal relations in 1975, but waited for 20 years before agreeing to exchange military attaches and enhance defense ties.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/oct/01/yehey/metro/20041001met4.html (905 words)

	Bradmans ASIA / PACIFIC 2005 - Beijing
		But Beijing's most famous inhabitant wasn't; Mao Zedong was born in the Hunan province, but is now perched in a glass case in his mausoleum at the south end of Tiananmen Square—placed perfectly on the old imperial north-south axis.
		Beijing's emerging middle class is after modernity, not posterity; they want a new flat, a car and foreign travel (preferably to the U.S.), and generally live happily in the midst of the economic boom.
		Beijing cab drivers are surprisingly honest, which might have something to do with the heavy fines they get for cheating.
	www.bradmans.com /asia/beijing (3079 words)

	Beijing to upgrade metro lines prior to Games
		Beijing's two oldest metro lines will be renovated ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.
		According to sources with the Beijing Metro Operation Company,lurking dangers in safety will be eliminated after renovations are completed.
		In another development, the Beijing Metro Operation Company will examine all of the four subway lines in operation to ensure safety and prevent fire.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/31/content_370310.htm (449 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > Asia > China > BEIJING (Peking) Subway
		There are ambitious plans to expand the subway network in the Chinese capital, which include both subways, light rail and suburban trains (see map).
		Beijing (or Peking) is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the country's second largest city (after Shanghai) with more than 12 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area (16,800 sq km).
		Beijing's Airport, for both international and domestic flights, lies 27 km north of the city centre.
	www.urbanrail.net /as/beij/beijing.htm (610 words)

	Beijing to seek investors for metro lines
		Beijing will select investors for two new metro lines, loop 5 and loop 10, through public bidding among domestic private or overseas companies, a government official said.
		Earlier this month, the Beijing Municipal Construction Committee announced it would offer a 30-year franchise for the operation of the metro loop 4 to non-governmental investors, a historic step for the city to open its metro market.
		Moreover, Wang acknowledged that the Beijing municipal government is considering selling franchised operation of several other new metro lines in the future, and loop 9, to cost some 8 billion yuan, will open for bidding next year.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-12/18/content_401412.htm (319 words)

	International Railway Journal: Beijing Plans Major Metro And Rail Expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The metro's share of traffic is expected to grow to 50% once all the planned new lines have been completed.
		The population of Beijing is 4.5 million, with a further 2 million living in outlying communities.
		The Beijing City Master Plan compiled in 1992 recommended that better use should be made of spare capacity on the existing mainline rail network by introducing more suburban trains by 2000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQQ/is_10_40/ai_66931448 (985 words)

	DSN Retailing Today: Metro lays plans to triple presence in China
		Metro plans to add up to 10 units a year for a total of 40 new stores, Metro's chief executive, Hans-Joachim Koerber, told participants at a Shanghai briefing early this month.
		With the step to Beijing, Metro Group is expanding the network of its sales division, Metro Cash & Carry, in China to the north of the country where the company isn't represented yet.
		Metro Group sales are split almost 50/50 between Germany and the rest of the world, but the company's stated goal is to push for international growth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_22_42/ai_110805537 (1091 words)

	Beijing This Month- Metro Construction Funded
		Beijing will spend four billion yuan (about US$480 million) on three major subway lines by the end of 2004, an official with the Beijing municipal commission of construction said.
		Line 4, including stations at the Beijing Zoo, Xisi, Xuanwumen and Caishikou, is expected to ease north-south transportation in the city and surface transport difficulties along the route.
		The Beijing metro system includes subways and light rail lines that total 114 kilometres in length, according to the commission.
	www.btmbeijing.com /contents/en/business/2004-12/newsbriefsbeijing/metroconstruction (235 words)

	:: XINHUANET ::
		Beijing, Sept. 9, (Xinhuanet) -- Beijing authorities ordered most news stalls in city subway stations shut down on Sunday over concerns about passenger safety.
		The orders will close all news stands at the train platforms but leave a few in the ticket halls, sources from the Beijing Metro Group said.
		According to a report from the Beijing Morning Post, the newspaper has stopped supplying newspapers to news vendors in the subway station.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2003-09/09/content_1071341.htm (320 words)

	The Beijing subway
		Beijing's subway serves this 10 million population capital (oops, my mistake - capitol) with two lines totaling 55.5 km.
		Line two, opened in 1984, is a 16 km city circle line which runs beneath Beijing's second ring road.
		According to Beijing Scene, "it is an open secret that there are subway lines under the city utilized only by the armed forces"
	www.subways.net /china/beijing.htm (392 words)

	Beijing to seek investors for new metro lines　 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		According to Wang, public bidding for the proprietors of loop 5 and loop 10 will start on January 1st, 2005, and the government will transfer the right to management of the two lines to the winners for 20-year operation beginning as soon as they are finished in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
		One is the combination of the Hong Kong MTR Corporation, the Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd and the Beijing Capital Group; the other is composed of German-based Siemens, China Railway Construction Corporation and Beijing Metro Corporation.
		Moreover, Wang acknowledged that the Beijing municipal government is considering selling franchised operation of several other new metro lines in the future, and loop 9, to cost some eight billion yuan, will open for bidding next year.
	en.ce.cn /National/Local/200412/19/t20041219_2613283.shtml (337 words)

	Beijing subway gets GSM coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The antennas specialist, Andrew says that it contributed to the success of Beijing Metro's commercial wireless-communication system trial by supplying RADIAX radiating 'leaky'coaxial cable for the system's tunnel coverage.
		The purpose of the trial was to extend wireless communications in the Metro along the line between Dong Zhi Men and Liu Fang stations of the Beijing Light Rail (also known as Beijing Metro Line 13).
		This is a good and successful experiment of Beijing Metro's Commercial Mobile Communication system; it's also a benchmark for the construction and upgrading of other such systems in other lines of the Beijing Metro.
	www.cellular-news.com /story/9088_print.shtml (402 words)

	SARS closes program, sends UI senior home from Beijing - Daily Iowan - Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Denning is one of two UI students studying in East Asia this semester; one UI student in Vietnam decided against returning because the disease had not affected the area he is in.
		Denning was in China on a program at the Beijing Institute of Education run by a Washington, D.C.-based academic group.
		China was faulted for inaccurate reporting of the disease when official records revealed that the number of cases in the country - 1,807 - was shown to be much higher than previously reported.
	www.dailyiowan.com /news/2003/04/24/Metro/Sars-Closes.Program.Sends.Ui.Senior.Home.From.Beijing-425000.shtml (484 words)

	Beijing Impression
		There is only one story in Beijing metro while in Shanghai, the undergrand space was seperated by two floors.
		The city of Beijing is large and gives huge areas of space to accomendate building groups, instead of sing towers.
		There are at least to floor for Beijing Metro, "lane one" and "lane two" are in different levels, and we also building more lanes, which means more levels.
	home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/20040216_beijing_impression.htm (1116 words)

	http://www.cubic.com
		Beijing, China, and San Diego, Calif., June 9, 2004 –; Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of San Diego based Cubic Corporation (AMEX:CUB) has established its China headquarters in Beijing, China.
		The initiative is linked to the company’s commitment to be active in the manufacture and supply of automatic fare collection systems and equipment to railway operators in what is the world’s fastest developing market.
		Beijing, which will soon be under the international spotlight when it hosts the 2008 Olympics, is working hard to ensure its transportation networks are operating to a high and efficient standard.
	www.cubic.com /corp1/news/pr/2004/Cubic_Beijing_Final_6-9.html (813 words)

	HITACHI GLOBAL : News Releases from Headquarters : Dec 14, 2001
		Beijing is developing and expanding its modes of urban transportation in order to ease urban-area traffic congestion and also to prepare for its hosting of the Olympic Games.
		A 150-km metro network is scheduled to be completed by 2008.
		Line No. 13 is Beijing’s first large-scale project to gear up for the Olympics.
	www.hitachi.com /New/cnews/E/2001/1214a/index.html (184 words)

	Beijing to Seek Investors for New Metro Lines --News
		Folk culture is like a long river of human history, flowing from antiquity to the present, with shifts in direction, depth and speed dictated by the land through which it passes.
		The mountains in west suburban Beijing usually lure many visitors thanks to their cooling resorts in summer and golden scenery in autumn.
		But they are not the favorite in winter except those who like a quite surrounding in a Buddhist temple, Buddhist architecture, culture and the special winter scenery hidden within mountains saturated in pine trees.
	english.china.com /zh_cn/business/investment/11021614/20041220/12022233.html (593 words)

	Metro Cafe
		The Metro Cafe is a little slice of the west right here in Beijing.
		Prices here are expensive by Beijing standards but very reasonable when you convert it back to your home currency.
		Getting to the Metro Cafe has always been a problem, as it is pretty well hidden on a dimly lit, long street.
	www.beijingtraveltips.com /restaurants/topend/metro_cafe/metro_cafe.htm (311 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Metro to link Beijing Railway Station and Beijing West Railway Station
		The feasibility report on the underground railway project to connect the Beijing Railway Station and the Beijing West Railway Station has won approval from the National Development and Reform Commission recently.
		The project is expected to start by the end of this year and scheduled to complete prior to 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to the overseas edition of People's Daily on August 8.
		The 2.39 billion-yuan railway starts from the Beijing Railway Station in the east and stretches 9.1 kilometers to the Beijing West Railway Station in the west via Chongwenmen, Qianmen, Xuanwumen and Lianhuachi, including 7.2-kilometer underground tunnel with two lift stations at Qianmen and Xuanwumen.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200508/08/eng20050808_200956.html (221 words)

	news
		The machines will be used for tunnel construction along the Beijing Metro Line No. 4 planned to link Majiapu and Beigongmen.
		This large-scale project is managed by Beijing Mtr Construction Administration Corp. The line is slated to commence operation in 2008, the year of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
		China's tunneling machine market is extremely buoyant in the runup to the Beijing Olympics, with large-scale metro projects planned not only in the capital city but also in Shanghai, Wuhan and Chengdu, and tunnels for motor road as well.
	www.mhi.co.jp /enews/e_1001.html (479 words)

	Xinhua News Agency : Non-governmental capital to be transfused in Beijing's metro market. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Current Article: Non-governmental capital to be transfused in Beijing's metro market.
		Start / X / Xinhua News Agency / May 26, 2004 / Non-governmental capital to be transfused in Beijing's metro market.
		Beijing has decided to allow non- governmental investment into the capital's metro market in future, said Zhou Zhengyu, vice director of the Beijing municipal communications commission.
	static.highbeam.com /x/xinhuanewsagency/may262004/nongovernmentalcapitaltobetransfusedinbeijingsmetr/index.html (220 words)

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