Beijing round the clock
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-08 12:13

18:00

A tourist from New Zealand gets into a cab in front of the Raffles Beijing Hotel.

Cab drivers in Beijing are encouraged to learn a foreign language, cut down on garlic consumption with their meals and told to present the friendly face of the city.

Numbers Games

There are about 200 taxi companies in Beijing with more than 65,000 taxis and about 100,000 cabbies.

There are an estimated 100,000 unregistered taxis plying mainly in the suburbs.

19:00

Yang Er (right) and his family tune in for the National News at 7PM of CCTV, the national television network.

Numbers Games

The daily evening news program is a national institution, with hundreds of millions tuning in to catch up on national and international events.

Beijing Olympic Broadcasting, the official producer of Olympic programs, expects a record high of 4 billion viewers worldwide for the Games.

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