Travel Manual

Population

Beijing has a permanent resident population of 22,000,000 in 2010 and in the end of 2009 Beijing announced an immigrated population of 5,092,000. However actually at present the number of immigrated population has reached 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 and it is still on the increase. The number of both immigrated population and floating population (the number of both immigrated population and floating population in Beijing was more than 147 million in 2007) exceeds 169 million, ranking first in the whole country. The permanent resident population density of the city is 1341 people/square kilometer.

Language

Beijing language, also called Beijing dialect, belongs to Jingpianzi of Beijing Mandarin that also includes some dialects closely akin to that of urban Beijing and it is popular in the urban area of Beijing. Speakers speak with a distinct characteristic of rhotacization. Some people call the heavy accent of Beijing dialect as "Jingpianzi" or "Jingqiang". Strictly speaking, Beijing Mandarin does not equal to Standard Chinese and Beijing dialect is far more different than Standard Chinese. However many people think that learning Standard Chinese is approximately equal to learning Beijing dialect.

Time Lag

With New York, America: -12 hours
With Berlin, Germany: -4 hours
With London, Britain: -7 hours
With Paris, France: -6 hours
With Australia: +2 hours
With Copenhagen, Denmark: -6 hours
With Moscow, Russia: -4 hours
With Seoul, Korea: +1 hour
With Toronto, Canada: -12 hours
With Malay, Malaysia: -3 hours
With Tokyo, Japan: +1 hour
With Stockholm, Sweden: -6 hours
With Bangkok, Thailand: -1 hour
With Barcelona, Spain:-6 hours
With Athens, Greece: -5 hours
With London, Britain: -7 hours

Voltage

220V 50HZ A C

Mobile Phone Network

1、1. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)
2、Acronym of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
3、3G the third-generation mobile communication technology (3rd-generation, 3G)

Travel Complaints Hotline

Complaints Hotline of Beijing Tourism Administration:010-65130828,010-65275315,010-54157490