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Beijing: Tiananmen Square
built 626 days ago
Beijing's real estate and automobile sectors have continued to bloom in recent years. In 2005, a total of 28.032 million square metres of housing real estate was sold, for a total of 175.88 billion RMB. The total number of cars registered in Beijing in 2004 was 2,146,000, of which 1,540,000 were privately-owned (a year-on-year increase of 18.7%). [1]
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The metropolitan boundary of Beijing was established in 1959 and places Beijing's status at the same the level of a province in China. It is approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide from east to west and 110 miles (180 km) wide from north to south with a total area of 6,900 square miles (17,900 km2).
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On January 31, 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, Communist forces entered Beijing without a fight. On October 1 of the same year, the Communist Party of China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, announced in Tiananmen the creation of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. Just a few days earlier, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference had decided that Beiping would be the capital of the new government, and that its name would be changed back to Beijing.
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