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

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Nigel Sperinck and his family from Bahrain check in at the Regent Beijing Hotel.

Numbers Games

390,000 hotel rooms and home-stay apartments will be available for tourists coming for the Games.

Beijing now has more than 700 star-rated hotels, of which 37 are five-star, 91 four-star 228 three-star and about 300 two-star and below.

An estimated 50-80 percent of the five-star hotel rooms, with rates as high as 12,000 yuan ($1586), have been booked.

Besides accredited rated hotels, there are more than 4,000 unrated hotels, according to the municipal government. Home-stay apartments in Beijing's famed hutong will also be available to international visitors based on the owners' communication skills and facilities.

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Every morning, 96 guards raise the flag at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing in 2 minutes and 7 seconds, the time it takes for the sun to rise above the horizon.

The flag-raising time differs from one day to another coinciding with the time of sunrise.

On each National Day that falls on October 1, about 200,000 spectators come for the event. On the national flag, the red color symbolizes revolution, the larger yellow star represents the Communist Party of China and the four smaller ones symbolize the workers, farmers, urban petty bourgeoisie and patrotic capitalists.

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