The CCTV Headquarters

The CCTV Headquarters is a truly spectacular building. It is 234 meters high and consists of two towers connected by a section which looks like a large bar suspended in mid air.

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Beijing 2016 part III - a bit of this and that

July 5th 2016
From Tiananmen Square via the Marco Polo Bridge to an apartment I used to live in In the previous two blogs (click here or here if you wish to read them) from the trip my mother and I did to Beijing I have covered several great historical places. N ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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