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1: Wangfujing/Beijing: The newly refurbished Wangfujing, Beijing's busiest shopping street, was reopened as a pedestrian walkway in Oct. 1999.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
2: Oriental Plaza (entrance building of Wangfujing), construction area of 800.000 sq.m., largest commercial complex in Asia, containing different malls, office towers, serviced apartments and a five-star hotel, completed in 2002. Investment by Cheung Kong-Group, Hong Kong.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
3: Tiananmen Square, political centre of Beijing, in the background the Tiananmen Gate, entrance of Palace Museum.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
4: Beijing, view of a sector of the inner-urban western area, most of the higher buildings were erected in the last two decades.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
