Beijing Area Guide

After the liberation of China, the area division of Beijing has been adjusted for five times, and nowadays, it has been defined that Dongcheng district, Xichen district, Chongwen district and Xuanwu district within the second ring road are defined as the traditional inner city. With the speeding-up of opening-up and urbanization, the centre of political, economic and cultural have extended to the areas such as Chaoyang district, Haiding district, Fengtai district and Jingshan district. Moreover, the continuing outward extention areas include the urban new area and the ecological develop zone.

Xi Chen District

Xichen District is located in the east west of centre London, and it is inseparable with the development of Beijing since the ancient times. Xicheng district is a developed region with full of financial and commercial activities, and it is also the location of the principal organs of the government. Education is highly developed here, with a large pool of talents, but also gathered a lot of tourist attractions, including:

Jingshan park
Beihai park
Beijing zoo
Great hall of the People
chairman Mao memorial hall
xidan shopping centre
Former residence of Lao She

Chong Wen District

Chongwen district is located in the south north part of Beijing and also south of Chongwenmen.

History left Chongwen district rich cultural heritage and tourism resources.


National heritages here include:
Temple of Heaven
Zheng Yang Men arrow building

Municipal conservation units are:
Longan temple
Yan Tun
Gold Units College

Xuan Wu District

Strong history and culture of Beijing Xuanwu district left it with much of history remains, and there are more than 400 residence halls and celebrities here. Its economy is mainly dominated by commercial and catering industry with a long history of 2400 years, which has not been changed yet. Tourist views here include:
Grand View Garden
Dashilan commercial street
Zhang Yi Yuan Tea House and so on.

Dong Chen District

Dongchen district is located in the east Beijing with the location of Tiananmen Square, and many national major political events and celebrations are held here. When the first ray of dawn every day to illuminate the capital Beijing, the solemn flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square is the symbol of the new day begin. Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is the former imperial palace in Ming and Qing dynasties, in where lived 24 emperors.

Palace Museum is a magnificent building, fully expressing the ancient Chinese people's intelligence and hard work. It is the great heritage of China, and also one of the world's largest existing palace. By the way, the famous Wang Fu Jing commercial street is also located in Dongchen district.


The tourist attractions in Dongchen district include:

Palace Museum
Tiananmen Square
Monument to People's Heroes
Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
Wangfujing
Confucius Temple
Drum Tower
Former Residence of Mao Dun and so on.

Chao Yang District

Chaoyang district locates in the east Beijing, west to Dongcheng district, Chongwen district, Fengtai district and Haidian district; north to Changping district and Shunyi district; east to Tongzhou district and south to Daxing district. It is the largest district in Beijing with the location of the capital international airport. Visitor attractions here are:

Chaoyang garden: it is the largest garden in Beijing dominated by green and modern; and it is also a multi-functional large-scale comprehensive park.
China agricultural museum
Beijing antique city and so on.

Hai Dian District

Haidian district, located in north-west of Beijing, is known for its beautiful natural scenery, rich cultural atmosphere and developed modern science and technology industry. It is the perfect combination of traditional Chinese culture and modern technology. There are rich natural and human resources, intensive high-quality talents and developed modern production in this area, for instance:

Zhong Guan Cun Science Park
Tsinghua University
Peking University

At the same time, there are rich natural views in Haiding district, for example:

Beijing Phoenix Ridge Natural Beauty
Summer Palace
Old Summer Palace
Big Bell Temple
Beijing Botanical garden
Xiangshan Park
Beijing Aquarium and so on.

Feng Tai District

Fengtai district is located in the south-western of Beijing, rich in tourism resources, including Marco Polo Bridge and Wanping City which are renowned at home and abroad and so on. "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" happened in July 7, 1937 is the start of China's eight-year war; The World Parks are the Asia's largest miniature landscape; Wanping human landscape and Tsing Lung Tau leisure visitors with centres of Marco Polo Bridge and Chongqing Reservoir Area respectively, will be open in the near future.

Shi jing Shan District

Shi jing shan district is located in the western section of Chang'an avenue, and it is famous for its beautiful natural landscape. Thanks to the geographical environment and historical precipitation, there are many natural and human landscapes in this area.

Apart from attractions that mentioned above, there are countless views in Beijing city that are worth exploring, including the Ming tombs in Changpin district, the Badaling Great Wall and Longqing gorge scenic area in Yanqing district, Peking man site in Zhoukoudian town and so on and so forth. You must be complicated by Beijing's traffic and confused by the choice of tourist attraction and accommodation in Beijing.Gift-Tours offers the information of accommodation you will need for your travel in Beijing. For more information about accommodation in Beijing city, please search for the perfect Beijing accommodation through our search engines, or submit an enquiry or contact us!