What was Beijing like during 20th Century and what took place over the last 100 years? Take a look this collection of snapshots that takes you all the way back to the early 1900’s…
1900-1909: The Eight-Power Allied Forces invasion of Beijing (1900)…
1910-1919: The Revolution of 1911 (1911); Beijing celebrated the victory of the Triple Entente in WWI (1918); May 4th Movement of 1919（五四运动 1919)…
1920-1929: The Communist Party of China was established (1921); A Global Economic Crisis (1929)…
1930-1939: 7.7 Incident outbreak（七·七事变 1937)…
1940-1949: The People’s Republic of China was found (1949)…
1950-1959: The government proposed an anti-drug policy (1951); The Land Reform Movement (1950-1953); The first five-year plan implementation (1953); The constitution of the People’s Republic of China came into being (1954); The first National People’s Congress (1954)…
1960-1969: The guideline of national economy was proposed (1961)…
1970-1979: Nixon’s visit to China (1972); The death of Mao Zedong in Beijing (1976)…
1990-2000: The new Man-hour system was implemented (1994); Beijing-Kowloon Line（京九铁路）opened (1995)…
2000-2010: China-Africa Cooperation Forum (2000); Beijing successfully hosted the 2008 Olympic Games (2008)…
A dynasty can experience prosperity to declination in 100 years; a single person can live a full life in 100 years too. From the 1900’s until now, Beijing has kept moving forward and is gradually making place for a modern city with a distinct cultural background and deep-rooted history.