Companies that offer top-up driving instruction services have seen a sharp fall in business since the local authorities started to restrict the number of new cars allowed on the city's streets.
Drivers will not be allowed to fill up their gas tanks while Spring Festival fireworks are exploding in large numbers around them in a move that the Beijing Administration of Work Safety says could prevent a tragedy.
Three primary schools in Zhongguancun, China's silicon valley, will trial a school bus program this year.
The city is set to launch new regulations aimed at mopping up waste of the capital's water, according to an official from the Beijing Water Authority (BWA) on Monday.
Local political advisors urged the authorities to cut down on the startling number of empty seats in taxis as Beijing's traffic became a hot topic at the ongoing legislative session.
Soaring housing prices and traffic congestion are among the major bottlenecks that harass Beijing's social and economic development.
The municipal government has, in a rare move, ordered a government-subsidized housing project in the city to be torn down because of shoddy construction.
The last "nail household" owner on Chaoyang Road is determined to stay in her property even though she has been told to vacate her house in 15 days.
Beijing is set to tap into its underground space on a large scale this year with the central districts of Chaoyang, Xicheng and Dongcheng as well as Tongzhou all putting forward ambitious plans.
The city's procurators - Beijing's equivalent of the United States' district attorneys - will be monitored by a team of 119 members of the public under a new initiative that aims to ensure prosecutors' fairness is beyond question.
Only one in 12 drivers hoping to license new vehicles in the national capital will be able to do so, figures released by the city's transport authorities on Sunday showed.
Car rental agencies have been enjoying a boom in business ever since new restrictions made it harder for people to buy an automobile in the capital.
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