Located to the west of Xisanhuan Middle Road, it is close to Yuyuantan Park and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. Construction began in January 1987. In 1994, the project was completed and it was opened to the public on October 1st of the same year.

Taking up an area of 15.4 hectares, it reaches 386.5 meters tall (1,268 feet, or 1,329 feet, if the lightning rod is counted). Its base covers an area of 12,143 sq meters (14,523 sq yards). The square, the surrounding verandah, the foundation, the pedestal, the body, the turret, and the mast together constitute it. Its pedestal imitates double-tiered roofs of ancient Chinese palaces, while its turret (689 feet above the ground) looks like a big palace lantern. When colored lights glow at night, it is like a giant lantern.

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Stone carved painting in the east hall: On the first floor, a gigantic stone carving is hanging on the wall of the East Hall, with 20 meters (22 yards) long, 8.7 meters (9.5 yards) wide and an area of 171.4 sq meters (205 sq yards). In the carving, you can see China's most distinctive mountains and rivers.

The Hall: Inside the hall, visitors can visit the revolving restaurant, indoor viewing hall, open-air sightseeing platform, and Liuyun (white cloud) Hall, each on different floors.

The revolving restaurant on the eighteenth floor can admit 250 people and features Chinese and Western-style buffets. It takes 80 minutes to make a full rotation. Visitors can enjoy the cuisine while viewing the city sights.

The indoor viewing hall is on the nineteenth floor.

The highest post office in Beijing is in this hall. You can buy postcards from the office and mail them with the postmark of the in-the-air post office.

The open-air sightseeing platform on the twenty-second floor is 238 meters (781 feet) above the ground, and is believed to be the biggest one of its kind all over the world. Chang'an Avenue, the Summer Palace, and other places can be seen clearly from the platform. Liuyun Hall on the twenty–third floor is the venue of celebrations and recreational activities.

Taipingyang Underwater World Exhibition: This ocean park, constructed at its base, is the home of hundreds of marine creatures. After visiting it, you can also have fun here.

Take Bus No. 40, 64, 74, 77,323, 368, 374, 394, 437, 617, 624, 631, 631 Kuai, 658, 944, 968, 977, Te 8, Yuntong 102 ,Yuntong 103, Yuntong 108, Yuntong 201 to Hangtianqiaonan station

Take Subway Line 1 to Gongzhufen Station and continue north towards Bayi Lake.

The Beijing Botanical Garden was founded in 1956 with financial support from the central government.

The Beijing Botanical Garden is located at the foot of the far Western Hill in the Haidian District. It is northwest of downtown Beijing and covers an area of 400 hectares It is known as the largest botanical garden in North China. The garden displays a variety of rare trees and stunning flowers. As well, it also houses a number of historical attractions. The plant conservatory, which in some ways resembles a crystal palace, lies at the center of the garden. The greenhouse is the largest one in Asia, and exhibits thousands of tropical and subtropical plants. There are areas designated for various trees and flowering plants. Eleven themed gardens form a spectacular sight within the garden, which features the rose, peony, lilac, bamboo, magnolia, bonsai, prunus mume flower, perennial flowers, herbaceous peony, ornamental peach and numerous other Chinese flowers.

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Conservatory: The main Conservatory, one of the biggest projects in Beijing, was setup in 1999 with an area of 6,500 square meters for display. There are a total of 3,000 taxa plants grown in crystal sections, including rainforest house, cacti & succulent house, orchid &carnivorous house, alpine house, foliage plant house and flower show house. The features of the rainforest are displayed in the tropical rainforest house, such as the plank buttress roots, dripping-tip leaves, cauline flowers, and etc. The diversity of epiphytes and carnivorous plants arrests children's and even parents' eyes in the orchid &carnivorous house. More than 1,000 species of cacti and succulents are collected in their house. It makes you feel like walking on an Arizona or Africa pathway. So, the conservatory is a very important site for the education of botany and conservation of plant resources.

Penjing garden: Penjing (Bonsai) is an ancient tradition art in China. Its long history can be traced back to 1,900 years ago. The Penjing garden is an attractive exhibition in the Beijing Botanical Garden. Most Penjing works come from different parts of China with distinct styles.

There are also outdoor miniature trees over 100 years old in the garden. A ginkgo tree is now more than 1,300 years old. The garden provides visitors with an elegant place to study the Penjing art, appreciate and exchange the works. Historic Site Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall, the Tomb of Liang Qichao, the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha and the December 9th Pavilion can also be seen there. The Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall depicts a vivid scene of mountainous villages of China. The Tomb of Liang Qichao, a famous reformist in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), lies beyond the wooded area of the garden. The Temple of the Sleeping Buddha was constructed early in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) when a huge copper Sakyamuni statue, together with twelve smaller Buddha figurines was regarded as sacred. The December 9th Pavilion is built in memory of the December 9th Movement, which took place in 1935 and called for an end to the civil war and resistance towards the Japanese aggressors.

Founded in August 1988, Xiedao Holiday Village Resort is located on the south side of the side road of the airport in Chaoyang District. It is 7 kilometers away from the Beijing Capital International Airport and covers 3,000 hectares, integrating catering, accommodation, recreation, and meeting reception.

It is mainly separated into two sections: the eco-agricultural tour visit zone and relaxation holiday service zone with the eco-agricultural tour visit zone making up 90% of Xiedao and relaxation holiday service zone being 10%.

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Abundant water activities: Xiedao is located on the suburb geothermal area and the geothermal resource is abundant with two 2,400-meters-deep hot spring wells. As one of the resources of recreation in Xiedao, hot springs are excellent here with a water yield of 100 t/h and a temperature of 67 degrees. Near the two wells is a fitness health palace, whose main facility is the hot spring swimming pool and old Beijing bath room. Different people gather in the old Beijing bath room. The highest service is named Guan Tang, which is for officials and those rich business men. Not only are the equipment and service is top-rated, electrotherapy, pedicure, Chinese traditional massage and hairdressing are also available. The underground water in Xiedao is very rich and you can even see water two meters below the ground. This water is recycled water which is processed and reaches this standard. Through years of hard work, a water system has been formed, where there are rivers, lakes and pools, covering more than 300 hectares. The inner door and outdoor fishing, boating, seascape and wet land are developed there.

Authentic Delicate Cuisines: There are in total five restaurants at Xiedao, where visitors can not only choose from eight Chinese cuisines but can also dine on old Beijing flavor and cuisines of the northwest. All the ingredients of the cuisines are all organic and fresh. It will take no more than 4 hours from picking the ingredients to turning them into dishes. Aside from the various facilities for relaxing and keeping healthy from the water-based relaxing facilities, there are some other facilities, such as a large-scale gym and karaoke room. What’s more, there is also an indoor facility for tennis, bowling, archery, table tennis and billiards, etc.

Take Bus No. 688, and get off at the South Gate of Xiedao (Terminal).

Take Bus No. 418 or 909, get off at Xiedao Station, and walk for 600 meters to enter Xiedao.

It's owned by Ms. Chan Lai Wah, who is a CPPCC member, chairlady of Fuwah International Hong Kong, honorary humanity doctor and director of the college directorate of the Savannah College of Art and Design in America. The total investment is over 200 million RMB. It's a gift project for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It's the first and largest private museum in China specialized in collecting, researching and displaying red sandalwood works of art and connoisseurship of classical furniture, which fills a vacancy in the field of Chinese museums.

The exhibition room covers an area of 10,000 square meters. Here you will touch the essence of red sandalwood culture. The corner tower of the Palace Museum and the Qianqiu Pavilion in the imperial garden assume an imperial air. 320 dragons carved in the Longquan Temple in Shanxi Province are in different postures. The delicate Beijing quadrangles and the Feiyun Building in Shanxi Province are representatives of red sandalwood arts. They are all artistic treasures in the Orient made of red sandalwood. Numerous basso-relievo, sculpture-in-the-rounds, and fretworks give full display to the charms of red sandalwood.

Sandalwood is called the red wood because of its color. Its texture is hard, which makes it excellent material for making furniture. Here, the furniture made in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, traditional furniture materials, designs, and structures give a brand-new interpretation of the meaning of furniture.

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If you come to Beijing without visiting this "Red Sandalwood Temple", it will be a great pity, just as what Mr. Zhu Jiajing, a master appraiser of cultural relic, once told one of his friends from England.

The Ming City Walls Ruins Park (明城墙遗址公园) is one of the best parks in Beijing. It is located 3 kilometers from the center of the city, between the southeast turret and Chongwen Gate (崇文门) in the west. It is a scenic spot of ancient architectural relic. It was open to the public in 2002.

The Ming City Wall, first built over 580 years ago, in 1419, or the 17th year of Emperor Yongle (永乐)'s reign in the Ming Dynasty, used to run about 40 kilometers. The remaining relic, which is about 1.5 kilometers long, used to be part of the inner city wall of Beijing. It is the longest section of the city wall remains in the city, and an important symbol of Beijing. Topped with saplings, trees and a healthy head of vegetation, the last surviving slice of the Ming Inner City Wall (originally 40km in length) runs along the length of the northern flank of Chongwenmen Dongdajie (东大街), attached to a slender and pleasant strip of park. Leveled in the 1950s to facilitate transport and compromise the legacies of earlier dynasties, the city wall is perhaps Beijing's most conspicuous chunk of lost heritage.

Featured Attractions: In 2003 the park underwent stage II landscaping, which added more variety to the plants. Over 300 arbors and shrubs, such as ginkgos, peaches, apricots, crape myrtles, golden rain trees, magnolias, and over 100,000 flowers (such as marigolds and morning glories) and perennial-root flowers (such as fleur-de-lis and day lilies) have been planted. As a result, a number of distinctive scenic spots, such as Century-old Carriage Track, Sea and Hills, Purple Jade, Mountain Apricot, and Pagoda Trees Protecting the City Wall.

Take Bus No. 41, 43, 44, 59, 610, 713 or 820 to Dongbian Men stop.

The Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is a national scenic area and is one of the best places in Beijing to educate your children about the politics and development of Beijing. It was opened to the public on September 24th, 2004 and is an exhibition hall that specializes in displaying the history, conditions, and future of Beijing’s urban planning and development.

Through advanced technology, substantially vivid content, and interesting ways that are often presented, the exhibition hall introduces the development history, urban patterns, and panoramic view of the modern urban planning. As a famous city with a vast, long history, it also displays the splendid future for city development. Since the exhibition hall first opened, it has welcomed leaders from more than 70 countries and about one million visitors from both home and abroad. It has won high praise for its rich exhibitions and warm services. The reputation of the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall continues to improve and has become an important window that displays and highlights the city to the world. It is an important place where many politicians stop for state or foreign affairs. This exhibition hall is perhaps one of the most interesting places to understand the past, present, and future of Beijing. So head over there on your next day off and bring a guest with you.

Featured Attractions: The highlight is a massive scale model of the city, which takes up an entire floor and is best viewed with binoculars from above. Elsewhere, the first floor has nice old photographs of hutongs and traditional homes, and the second through fourth floors are simply strange, with 3D movies, booths showcasing the best of Beijing's municipal districts, and a model for a "future house."

Yexian Pagoda Tourism Scenic Spot is located in the northeast of Miyun and leans against the mountain named Yeshan in the north and faces the Chao and Bai Rivers in the south. It is a beautiful area. The pagoda named Yexian built inside the scenic area was initially constructed in 1039 during the Liao Dynasty and had once been one of the top 8 wonders of Beijing.

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In addition, tourists see views like the huge Chinese ink disc and the largest Buddha hall housing thousands of Buddha statues, Puzhao Temple, Three-Fairy Cave and other views.

The resort stands on a slope, surrounded by the original trees and grass, which present obvious advantages for a sightseeing resource. It is also very accessible .

 Huihuang International Conference Resort is located in Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District, close to No.110 National Highway. It faces Gulong Road and Songshan Mountain National Nature Reserve in the north, Guyaju Scenic Area in the west, Yudu Mountain Scenic Area in the east and Guanting Reservoir in the south. It enjoys convenient transportation and abundant tourism resources, 70 kilometers away from downtown Beijing.

This club is located at the foot of Badaling Great Wall. The equestrian club is composed of several independent sports and leisure arenas including ones for horse riding, fitness and leisure along with resort facilities, a modern horse club city. It possesses the largest indoor horse riding arena, 3 outdoor equestrian training arenas, 200 professional stables, and one veterinary clinic.

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The equestrian club is composed of several independent sports and leisure arenas including ones for horse riding, fitness and leisure along with resort facilities, a modern horse club city.The horse club is composed of several independent sports and leisure arenas including horse riding, fitness and leisure and resort facilities, and a modern horse club city.

Yeyahu is in Guanting, Yanqing District, the lake is at an altitude of 479 m and its banks areas are composed of flooded wetlands. The lake covers a total area of 6,873 hectares including its wetlands, an area of 3,939 hectares, and is home to Beijing’s only nature reserve wetland birds. After 50 years of development the results are rich flora and fauna, biodiversity and a stable high altitude wetland ecosystem. This is one of the most important avian habitats of both Beijing and Northern China as a whole. The protected areas and wetlands are very rich in animal and plant resources. According to statistics Yeyahu has 89 Sections: 231 species of higher plants and 389 kinds, including bryophytes, 16 species are under Section 9; ferns compose of 8 species under Section 5 is 5; seven kinds of gymnosperms attached to Section 5 is 3; angiosperms compose of  358 kinds, 212 attached to Section 72.