I find Hu in this quiet, leafy Beijing courtyard in the center of the city. He explains what the wall was once like. MATTHEW HU: Around the city, we have nine city gates for the inner city.

It also describes, perfectly, a swath of the city right now — pandemic Olympic Beijing, circa February 2022, a place of narrow openings, pledging to bring people together for a shared future but ...

Beijing is the first city in the world to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics. With a population of more than 20 million people, Beijing is also the largest city to host a Winter Games.

Situated more than 20 kilometers east of Tian'anmen Square, Beijing's burgeoning sub city-center stands as a beacon of progress and promise, poised to usher in a new era of dynamic growth only 10 ...