A light earthquake rattled Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students rushing from their dorms as videos of ...

The following year, Emperor Yongle formally transferred the capital from Nanjing to Beiping and, for the first time, named the city Beijing (Northern Capital). Extensive reconstruction work was ...

There are very few places in the world where you’ll get to check off as many items on your bucket list as in Beijing. Walk on the Great Wall of China, experience the rich history of an ancient ...

Officials in Beijing passed new regulations last week that are taking the city one step closer to being driverless after allowing road trials for autonomous vehicles to take place, paving the way ...

The famous portrait of Mao Zedong still looks out over Beijing as though he's guarding communist austerity and discipline. But the Beijing he stares out upon is hardly the city he left behind.

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...

The quake would not influence seismic activity in the city, it added. Beijing, a metropolis of 22 million people, has periodically been affected by tremors from earthquakes nearby. The Beijing ...