The Convention of Peking (October 18, 1860), also known as the First Convention of Peking, was a treaty between the Qing Government of China and the British Empire, and between China and France, and China and Russia.
Article 6 of the Convention between China and the Great Britain stipulates that China was to cede a part of the Kowloon Peninsula, south of the present day Boundary Street, Hong Kong, and including the Stonecutters Island, in perpetuity to Britain.
As the Convention was signed as a result of the Second Opium War under the military and diplomatic pressures of British and Franch troops (which were burning the Old Summer Palace at the time), it was considered to be one of the unequal treaties by the Chinese side.
On 2 April, we saw an enthusiastic atmosphere in the spacious square in front of the BeijingConvention Center where 9 famous vehicle manufacturing plants and business dealers were busy with their work for entering into the city of Beijing.
This is the first time for Beijing to purchase by bidding vehicles for public transportation and the new vehicles are going to be bid in from the 9 enterprises making large-sized buses in the country.
He said, as a research indicates, in a year in Beijing about 40 percent of the time is unfavorable for the outspread of the pollutants and if we want to see a sustainable improvement of air quality we have to resort to more drastic measures.
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