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President of Russia Vladimir Putin meets with President of China Xi Jinping in Beijing, China.
2024-05-16

The Comac C919, China's first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines.
2023-05-28

Beijing's restaurants reopen following a decrease in new cases of COVID-19.
2022-06-6

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang goes on trial in Beijing for online social commentary critical of the ruling Communist Party.
2015-12-14

The father of a victim of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests commits suicide in Beijing after failing attempts for government redress.
2012-05-28

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Beijing for high-level talks with the government of China. She also contacts dissident Chen Guangcheng.
2012-05-2

At least 17 people are killed and at least 24 others are injured as a four-storey building goes up in flames in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing.
2011-04-25

A severe sandstorm affecting northern parts of China hits the capital Beijing, with health authorities urging people to stay inside.
2010-03-20

50-year-old Chinese journalist Li Junqi is imprisoned for 16 years after accepting bribes for his part in a mass three-month cover-up of a coal mine disaster in Hebei in which 35 people, including a rescue worker, were killed prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
2010-01-6