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Following the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, local government authorities were charged with the task of eliminating prostitution. One month after the Communist takeover of Beijing on 3 February 1949, the new municipal government under Ye Jianying announced a policy to control the city's many brothels.
Chinese bathhouses have thousands of years of history and consist of numerous variations. The Chinese word for bathhouses in general is zǎotáng (澡堂); in the stricter sense, this may refer to traditional, low-cost Chinese bathhouses, to contrast with modern, upmarket Chinese bathhouses known as xǐyù zhōngxīn (洗浴中心) or just xǐyù (洗浴).
In 2014, a woman named Cao Ju was refused a job in the private tutoring firm Juren in Beijing based on the fact that she was a woman. The company settled for 30,000 yuan for what's known to be "China's first gender discrimination lawsuit".
Beijing comes a close second, at 53 percent. In the same year, the nation's gross entrance rate into higher education has not yet reached 19 percent. More than half of the population aged 18 to 22 in Shanghai and Beijing can get access to some form of higher education. The impact of higher education has been significant.
The official temperature, measured in Beijing's southern suburbs, hit 40 degrees C just after 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) on Friday, to top out at 40.3 degrees C (104.54 F) by 4 p.m., the municipal ...
The Beijing bikini refers to a distinctive phenomenon observed in China, particularly during hot summer months, where men often roll up their shirts to expose their bellies. Others disparagingly refer to the phenomenon using the term " bǎngyé " ( 膀爷 ), which loosely translates to "exposing oneself like a grandfather."
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