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Beijing without improvisation: what to prepare before you fly
Beijing is considerably easier to visit independently than it was a few years ago, but it is still not a city where arriving unprepared is a good…
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240 hours in China without a visa: when Czech travellers can use transit
Ten days in China without a visa sounds like a straightforward invitation, but the legal mechanism is visa-free transit, not a general tourist…
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Chinese AI is reshaping the global market: it is bigger than the next DeepSeek or Qwen
Whenever DeepSeek, Alibaba or another Chinese laboratory releases a model, attention concentrates on benchmark tables. The more important shift…
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How Beijing reduced smog—and why the fight for clean air is not over
The image of Beijing hidden behind a grey curtain became a European shorthand for Chinese industrialisation. Today’s situation is more complicated…
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Heat, cloudbursts and the “sponge city”: how Beijing prepares for extremes
Beijing is often associated with a dry winter and cold winds, yet its summer risk takes the opposite form: high temperatures, humidity and intense…
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How to pay in Beijing: international cards, Alipay, WeChat and cash without the myths
Payment is one of the everyday practices in which Beijing differs most visibly from European cities. A European customer normally taps a bank card…
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Trees versus ozone? A Beijing study reveals the chemistry of urban air
A headline claiming that trees “make smog” is attractive and misleading. Plants naturally release volatile organic compounds such as isoprene. On a…
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Where Chinese bronzes ended up: a new catalogue raises questions of provenance and restitution
A Peking University team spent fourteen years mapping more than 23,000 ancient Chinese bronzes held in almost thirty countries. The resulting sixty…
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Beijing draws millions of visitors again: how to travel without racing through the monuments
Beijing’s most famous sites now face a paradox of successful heritage protection and mass tourism. The Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer…
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Čapek’s R.U.R. in Beijing: why the Czech play still shapes the technology debate
When Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. reaches a Beijing stage, it carries more than a century of technological anxiety with it. The 1920 play introduced the…
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Beijing Strengthens AI, Chips and Computing Infrastructure
Beijing's digital economy grew by 7.8 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, while its core industries grew by 9.8 percent. The municipal…
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Beijing Expands Parks, Greenways and Waterfronts
Beijing plans to extend its greenway network to 1,000 kilometres in 2026 and open forty more waterfront sections to the public. The municipal plan…