Beijing

The location of the Chinese Communist Party central committee which Beijing city (I do Beijing) is a capital of the People's Republic of China, and is a Chinese supreme power organization.
I am located in the eastern part in China, the center of Hebei.
I was old and was called a big city / swallow Kyoto / the Peiping.
It is direct control City for a current jurisdiction.
The area has an expanse equivalent to Japanese 4 countries.
The population is the third place city that is next to Chongqing of direct control City, Shanghai in China, and it is Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and world eminent world city to line up.

It is a city there are many tourists from the Hu foreign countries that are the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, a garden, the row of houses along a city street where the citizen lives in for a long time, and to visit except that a central organ of government accumulates it.
August 8, 2008 - Game of the Olympiad (the Beijing Olympics) was held on August 24.

The reading called Beijing that is well known in Japan is historic way of reading to come from the Tang pronunciation of the dialect of Chinese Nanbu.
Even postal administration of the establishment-type alphabet notation was transcribed into Peking in 1906 (the remains are left in airport cord PEK of the Beijing capital International Airport).
With the book (Ebara certain person "Nagasaki magnifying glasses) of the Edo era, the furigana of Beijing" becomes "(the pronunciation).
It is read with B ij ng (bay gin) by the current mandarin.
I introduce below a Chinese Southern dialect and the reading of in Western countries in various things.

It was called a thistle (Kei) in the capital of the swallow in Ages of Chunqiu and Contending States.
I left the capital of the country capital distantly, and it was always the border which suffered damage by the invasion of nomadic tribes such as the northern Hsiung-Nu.
It was called Peiping in Hata Han age, but Manchurian development advanced, and Kokuryo came to be made much of again strategically as an important foothold in the trade if the power of neighbor countries became powerful.
Of the north of the Great Canal where the Hebei county adjacent to Beijing City was known in a hometown of hero Liu Pei of three will, and of Sui built it is started.

16 states of swallow clouds including the Beijing district were done cession of for the compensation that I supported for militarily in the Liao morning when I went south from Inner Mongolia for the turmoil period of 5 generations on an end of Tang by.
Liao set this city with one of the vice-metropolis Nanjing and did Miyakonojo during fate with the capital in Beijing when the balance due morning destroyed Liao and acquired the control, and it was done with Miyakonojo for the Yuan dynasty as a big city when Mongol Empire (the Yuan dynasty) destroyed money more.
expelled the cause in the north, and tomorrow morning was formed, I returned a name to the Peiping, and Miyakonojo was established in Nanjing, which I was enfeoffed as swallow King, and assumed Beijing a foothold performed military attack for 建文帝 in 1402 and recaptured the government and I carried out the back Beijing removal of the capital that succeeded to the throne to the emperor and checked the place name in Beijing.
In the Shingai Revolution back, the Republic of China set Beijing of a capital, but Nationalist China led by Chiang Kai-shek who set Nanjing of a capital renamed Hebei, Beijing to Peiping (bay pin B ip ng) in direct servant ministry on June 15, 1928.
A name of Beijing was used for Japanese armed forces occupation period that continued from 1937 to 1945 (I change my name formally in 1940), and it was renamed to the Peiping again by Japanese defeat.