Basic Information
Country: People's Republic of China

Education
Beijing has 475 research centers, and more than 60 institutions of higher learning, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, whose economic and business programs are currently considered the premier training ground for emerging Chinese business leaders. Many international students from elsewhere in Asia, North America, Europe, and elsewhere come to Beijing to study. Beijing continually works to improve its kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, as well as develop a pre-school system for 0-6 years old.
Education in Beijing

Culture and Tourism
Dating back 3,000 years, Beijing has a rich historical and cultural heritage. Beijing is home to Beijing Opera, the Forbidden City, the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China, scores of temples, palaces, museums, gardens, pagodas, stone bridges and tombs. Its enormous investment in infrastructure to prepare for the 2008 Beijing Olympics has tranformed the city.
Culture and tourism in Beijing

Transportation
Beijing, as the capital, is a vibrant transportation hub, served by a municipal bus system (more than 500 routes), an expanding subway system, railway links to the provinces and Kowloon, Hong Kong, rings roads and expressways radiating out from the center. The city's Beijing Capital International Airport, the largest single structure terminal in the world, serves major global destinations.
Beijing Capital Airport
Beijing City Transportation

Business and Investment
To promote economic growth and position itself as a key commercial center, Beijing has undertaken various initiatives to attract foreign investment, and created Beijing Finance Street (BFS), a 35-block area which offers a collaborative environment for foreign and domestic financial institutions and Chinese regulatory agencies. Over 1000 financial institutions reside inside the district. In 2007, more than 80% of FDI went to services. The booming cultural and creative industry has become an attractive investment area.. In 2007, 447 foreign companies came to Beijing with a realized investment of about US$880 million, a year-on-year increase of 62.9%. Global names such as Apple and Vodafone came to Beijing in 2007.
Beijing Finance Street

Telecommunication
In the past decade, China's total telecommunications turnover increased by 35 times. So far Beijing has 9 million local telephone subscribers and 16 million mobile subscribers. Sixty percent of households have access to cable television, and there are over 3.5 million broadband internet users.

Investment
Why invest in Beijing? Because Beijing is a world–class metropolis in Asia, an important financial center, a robust commerical market, a premier science and research base. It is the cultural and political capital of China.  
Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau
Beijing Investment Guide

Useful Links
Beijing City Government http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/default.htm
Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industrial Investment http://www.bjid.gov.cn/english/index.jsp
Invest Beijing http://www.bjinvest.gov.cn/english/
Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau http://www.investbeijing.gov.cn/english/index.do