Beijing (formerly romanised as Peking) is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the world's third most populous city proper. It is also one of the world's most populous capital cities. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China. A city combining both modern and traditional architecture, Beijing is an ever-changing megacity rich in history but also truly modern, exemplified in its extraordinary global influence in politics, business & economy, education, history, culture, language, music, sporting, architecture, civilization, fashion, art, entertainment, innovation and technology. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational centre. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies, and is a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport has been the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic since 2010, and, as of 2016, the city's subway network is the busiest and second longest in the world, after Shanghai's subway system. The city's history dates back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was strategically poised and developed to be the residence of the emperor and thus was the perfect location for the imperial capital. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A.D. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates, and its art treasures and universities have made it a centre of culture and art in China. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that "few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China." Beijing has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, as well as parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, all popular locations for tourism. siheyuans, the city's traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are common in urban Beijing and are also major tourist attractions. The c ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY3o9NcCPFg

Part 1 - In Part 1 we leave Shenzhen on a Boeing 737, meet up with my old friend who drives me to my hotel in a Subaru.. I then head out and begin exploring. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-r1r7EJkNc

Join the adventure! https://www.facebook.com/advchina Music used: Spacedeb.mod (from the old Tracker days) Join me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/winstoninchina Twitter: @serpentza ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGDVKfL4-70

Years of living in China have shown me that life in China is actually significantly more free and relaxed than in other Western countries that I've lived in and visited. However this freedom does come at a huge cost! Nightclub scenes kindly provided by Kodak from IRG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZO2fd3bVGSXmYuCfQRjNNg Support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/serpentza Join me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/winstoninchina Twitter: @serpentza Instagram: serpent_za My other channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/advchina Music used: Virtual Vice - E. Calderone Artist's bandcamp: https://new-world.bandcamp.com/album/off-duty ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0RXyzBmsvc