Beijing, the capital of China, is China's political, economic and cultural center as well as a center for international communications. Beijing is a world-famous ancient cultural city. Roughly 500,000 years ago the land was the home of Peking Man. Beijing was established as a city in 1045 BC. For nearly 800 years, Beijing was a capital city -- the provisional capital of the Liao Dynasty and the capital of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Bill Clinton, the former USA president, once said: ...