Geography: Beijing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The west, north and northeast are surrounded by mountains, and the southeast is a plain that slowly inclines to the Bohai Sea.

Climate: Beijing has a warm temperate semi-humid and semi-arid monsoon climate, with high temperature and rainy summer, cold and dry winter and short spring and autumn.

Diet: Beijing is listed by Forbes as the eighth largest food city in the world. Beijing's flavor snacks have a long history, a wide variety, exquisite materials and fine production, and are famous far and near.

Beijing-style snacks: bean juice, crispy bean noodles, sour plum soup, tea soup, steamed buns, tuckahoe cakes, preserved fruits, sugar-coated haws, Aiwowo, pea yellow, snowballing, enema, fried belly and fried liver.

Architecture: Beijing was once the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in history. During the two thousand years since the Yan State, many palace buildings have been built, making Beijing the city with the largest number of royal palaces, gardens, temples and mausoleums in China.