Below you'll find insider tips on getting the best from Beijing, from hints on finding a home to reviews of the hottest restaurants in town.
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Taxi
Beijing is swarming with around 70,000 taxis, run by 200 different companies. The newest, and most comfortable, are the Sonata models made by Hyundai, which are yellow and blue... read more
Language
Beijing’s official language is Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua). A notoriously difficult language to learn, it has no set alphabet and instead uses characters, a type of pictogram,... read more
Local Time
Despite its size, the whole of China observes the same time as Beijing, which is eight hours ahead of UCT (Universal Coordinated Time, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, or... read more
Banks
Beijing is stuffed full of banks, all battling for the custom of a growing middle class with rising incomes. Major domestic banks such as Bank of China (www.boc.cn), China... read more
