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Beijing is China's second largest city after Shanghai, with more than 17 million people in Beijing's area of jurisdiction. The city is divided into 16 urban and suburban districts and two rural counties; the city's urban area has about 13 million residents.[ Beijing is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city. It is also the destination of many international flights arriving in China. Beijing is recognized as the political, educational, and cultural center of the People's Republic of China, while Shanghai and Hong Kong predominate in economic fields. The city hosted the 2008 Olympic Games. see more..Olympics 2012
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- .. the Northern Castle, or a place where the King is staying protected from the wild inhabitants that he controlled from time to time..it's the capital of the Middle Kingdom..& it's a spooky city at nite! ( Vampires still come out as blood suckers)
.One of the crates in which Taiwan's art collection was moved in 1949.Mainlander Chinese flock to see Taiwan treasure trove
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- Visit the City & view the Emperors' hoard of treasure: most were carried to Taiwan, still plenty left..
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[edit] The reason China wanna Taiwan back, 'cause they had Beijing treasure there!
The caves house the porcelain collection of over 19,000 pieces. Cave A, opened in 1969, contains 511 crates and each bears a number originally assigned in China before 1949.
Some of the wooden crates from China are still kept in the cave. They were used when China’s imperial collection was split, when the Nationalists evacuated more than
- 19,000 crates of art from Beijing in 1933 because of the threat of Japanese invasion.
The boxes went first to Shanghai and Nanjing, then to Sichuan and Guizhou in the west. By the end of the second World War the collection had spent 16 years criss-crossing China on trains with machine-gun nests to fight off Japanese troops, communist guerrillas and bandits.
Sometimes boxes were carried by lorry, ox cart and raft, or on foot, but always a few steps ahead of potential robbers. Curators proudly say that not a single item was broken during the evacuation
