While people in Daxing district have welcomed the convenience of the newly opened Daxing subway line, more than 200 households in a community near one section of the line have been complaining that the convenience comes at a cost - shaking ground.
It was supposed to be a perfect Friday night for Ding Ding as the 30-year-old commuter prepared to meet her boyfriend for a luxurious meal.
The Beijing municipal government said it received nearly 40,000 online applications for car license plates in the first 11 hours of the new year, as new traffic-control measures took effect as of Saturday.
A light snow, arriving suddenly and leaving quickly, in less than three hours, took citizens in downtown Beijing by surprise on Wednesday.
A new website where people will be able to apply for auto quota online will be fired up on Jan 1 when changes to the vehicle registration system kick in.
Beijing is working on making all public spaces - including work sites and transportation options - tobacco-free by the end of 2015, the Health Bureau revealed.
With the Spring Festival holidays approaching, the capital is launching a special campaign to protect migrant workers' rights and benefits.
Fake lawyers are preying on desperate migrant workers who are looking for legal help, the vulnerable group is being warned.
With the public feedback period for the recently released draft plan to deal with the capital's congestion ending on Sunday, Beijingers are offering up their suggestions for how the city can put the brakes on its traffic problem.
Members of the public got a rare insight on the weekend into how the capital rehabilitates its drug addicts.
As the temperature plummeted on Wednesday to well below freezing, helping hands were already reaching out to help the city's homeless.
The first thing Li Ping, 47, does every day at work is look at the enrollment information of different universities that her daughter has targeted next year.