Dawangqiao area around Beijing CBD (September 2004 image)
The Beijing CBD or Beijing Central Business District is a projected part of China). Geographically situated in the eastern urban area, sandwiched between the 3rd Ring Road and the 4th Ring Road, the Beijing CBD area is an area currently under immense development.
China's CCTV and other important organisations and businesses are gobbling up space in the CBD. The area is to become a new kind of hub for business Beijing following completion.
All this will be completed by 2008, and many projects will be completed even earlier.
Beijing is one of the 4 municipalities of the People's Republic of China, which have a provincial-level status, and is under the direct control of the central government.
Beijing is one of the largest cities in China, second only to Shanghai as the nation's biggest in terms of population.
Beijing borders Hebei province to the north, west, south, and for a tiny fraction to the east.
Beijing Municipality borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast.
Beijing is situated at the northern tip of the roughly triangular North China Plain which opens to the south and east of the city.
Tian'anmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) and Tian'anmen Square are at the centre of Beijing, and are directly to the south of the Forbidden City, former residence of the emperors of China.