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Khanbaliq: The Mongolian Yuan dynasty originally restored the name Yanjing before constructing a new capital adjacent to the former settlement. This settlement was called Dadu [18] in Chinese and Daidu in Mongolian. [19] (As Khanbaliq, it was noted as Cambuluc [20] by Marco Polo.) This city gradually absorbed the former settlements around the area.
But as the scale of the disaster became more apparent, an extraordinary work conference for cadres from around the country was hastily convened in Beijing in early 1962. At the so-called 7,000 Cadre Conference held from January 11 to February 7, President Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping reported the severe decline in the economy and called for ...
For a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beijing Capital International Airport was Asia's busiest airport (2009–2019) and the second busiest airport in the world (2010–2019). [17] In 2020, the Beijing subway was the fourth busiest and second longest in the world. [18]
Nationalist government of the Republic of China, before 1928 and in 1949 towards the end of the Chinese Civil War. Hangzhou was the capital of: Wuyue Kingdom (907–978) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Southern Song dynasty, from 1127 [4]: 67 to 1276, when it was called Lin'an (临安; 臨安; Lín'ān).
Before the signing of the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty in 1871, the first treaty between Qing China and the Empire of Japan, Japanese representatives once raised objections to China's use of the term Zhongguo in the treaty (partly in response to China's earlier objections for the term Tennō or Emperor of Japan to be used in the ...
Beijing called the release "a major nuclear safety issue with cross-border implications," when Tokyo started discharging treated radioactive water from the site in August 2023. ... a month before ...
In 1915 the Japanese set before the government in Beijing the so-called Twenty-One Demands, aimed at securing Japanese economic controls in railway and mining operations in Shandong, Manchuria and Fujian. The Japanese also pressed to have Yuan Shikai appoint Japanese advisors to key positions in the Chinese government.
China's stock markets surged after the National Day break, but the gains pared quickly. Beijing's aggressive stimulus measures have bolstered market sentiment, despite economic challenges.