Blog Tag - Alarming Stats
Officials fear this obesity epidemic could mean dire consequences for the snow people community.
The rate of obesity in Beijing’s snow people...
Aside from feasting, watching Zhang Ziyi's poor attempt at lip-syncing on TV and letting off truckloads of fireworks, Beijingers were also busy...
Spring is right around the corner, and with that comes the annual spring sandstorm season. For newbies to Beijing, this means a few months of dust...
Break out the masks, folks!
According to the State Environmental Protection Administration, the brown haze that descended on our fair city hit a...
2, 889, 900
Number of passenger trips recorded on Beijing's subway system last Friday, Nov 16. A new record for the swamped system whose load has...
The Guardian: Beijing's "bird's nest" stadium to open in April
Test events at the Olympic stadium will start next spring in the run-up the Games in...
3,800,000
The number of calls received by the official Olympic hot line (952008) between 9 and 10am yesterday morning. Due to the system being...
It’s no surprise that Beijing’s population is growing, but the figures are still astounding: experts have predicted that by 2020, 20 million people...
Beijing’s transportation is on everyone’s mind these days, especially with the recent opening of Line 5 of the subway system. For commuters who live...
Holiday travel in China is hectic, to say the least, especially considering how the price of hotels, and air and train tickets usually increase by 20...
Another mid-Autumn festival has come and gone, and that means boxes and boxes of unopened mooncakes – the "Chinese equivalent of the Christmas...
Beijing10.4%The average rise in Beijing housing prices over the past month15 The number of trees blown over on Dongzhimenwai Dajie during the freak...