Blog Tag - central heating

Central Heating Comes Early Due to Cold Temperatures
It may be autumn, but the bone chilling cold of winter is here in Beijing. The city has responded to a cold front hitting northern China by moving to...
Trending in Beijing: Hot Pot Kung Fu, Case of the Heating Blues, and the Elderly Can Drive Too
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags,...
Beijing News You Might Have Missed this Week, Oct 31
Beijing is a happening city! Don't miss a thing with our weekend roundup of the latest news. Pre-heat: Good news for those who subscribe to the less-...
Baby it’s cold….in here? Understanding China’s Central Heating System Divide
As is obvious to anyone hoping to come home to a toasty room in early November, China’s heating system operates very differently from many other...
Feel the Heat: Spring Time Hits Beijing Half a Month Early
Lose the coats and sweaters, folks, because Beijing has already entered springtime. An engineer at the Meteorological Observatory told Beijing Daily...
Cozy Quarantine: Beijing Extends Central Heating by a Week
[UPDATED: Mar 20, 5pm] Beijing's heating will be further extended until midnight on Mar 31 given that most people remain at home due to the...
Major Source of Beijing Air Pollution Discovered: You
After blaming power plants and factories in Beijing and Hebei province, chuan'r salesmen, and automobiles, a new study appears to have pinpointed a...
Big Chill: Natural Gas Shortage to Cool Public Places
Delays to imports of natural gas may see public places in Beijing such as office buildings and shopping malls drop their internal temperatures to 14...
CBD's Biggest Smokestack is No More as Coal-Fired Boiler Plant is Shuttered
One of downtown Beijing's most visible smokestacks is now no longer belching emissions into the CBD sky. The Guohua Power Plant, whose looming...
The Heat Is Off: Beijing's Central Heating Set to End March 15
That bit of blue sky and warmer temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday serves as a reminder that spring officially begins on Thursday, March 20, just...