China Printing Museum is located in the satellite city of Huang Village of Daxing District, 15 kilometers away from the downtown. It was opened on June 1, 1996. It is a professional museum exhibiting China's printing culture, with the construction acreage of 8,000 square meters.

Printing is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. Its invention, development and spread have greatly promoted the advancement of society and civilization, thus printing is called “mother of civilization”. The museum fully displays the origin, invention and development of printing; the history of the printing industry in contemporary times; the modernization process of printing industry since the founding of the New China. There is the exhibition hall of ancient printing, exhibition hall of contemporary printing, exhibition hall of printing facilities, comprehensive exhibition hall. The exhibition hall of ancient printing is the most important part of the museum, which shows the origin, invention and development of printing with exhibition board, real articles and models. Among the exhibition articles, there are original presswork from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It shows the historical facts that block printing, typography, chromatic printing and colored printing are all the great inventions of ancient China. The exhibition hall of contemporary printing is divided into special topic exhibitions including the introduction of western printing technology, the development of contemporary printing technology, the development of national printing industry, the construction of printing industry in the New China, as well as printing of currency, printing of stamps, etc. The comprehensive exhibition hall includes the exhibition stands of famous printing enterprises, precious printing products that have won awards. There is also an exhibition hall for the museum and Germany Gutenberg Museum to exchange exhibition articles, which is a condensed exhibition of early-time printing in Germany. There are more than 70 (sets of) printing facilities, including all kinds of before-printing, printing and after-printing facilities for nearly 150 years since the mid 19th century.

The address of China National Fine Arts Museum is No.1, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District. Its construction started in 1958, and was completed in 1962. In June 1963, Chairman Mao inscribed its name, and its status and nature as a national gallery were defined. It is a state-level plastic arts museum that focuses on the collection, study, and display of modern Chinese works of art.

The main building is modeled on the classical pavilion. Its gallery and its large roof covered with yellow glazed tiles speak of a distinctive Chinese national style. It has a floor space of 22,379 square meters. It has 20 exhibition halls on 5 floors, which cover an area of 7,000 square meters. The total length of its exhibition line is 2,110 meters. The 9 halls on the 1st floor and the 3 smaller ones between the 1st floor and the 2nd cover an area of 4,305 square meters along a 1,400-meter-long line. The 5 halls on the 2nd floor cover 1,500 square meters along a 429-meter-long line. The 3 halls on the 3rd floor cover 863 square meters along a 235-meter-long line.

The gallery keeps nearly 70,000 works of fine arts. Most of them date to the years around the founding of the People's Republic, while some masterpieces were created in the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the early Republican Period. Works by a single master Qi Baishi number as many as 410. There are works by such masters as Shi Tao, Xu Gu, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Fu Baoshi, Pan Tianshou, Li Keran, Jiang Zhaohe, and Wu Guanzhong; also kept here are the magnum opuses of other renowned Chinese fine artists and prize-winning works in important exhibitions.

The gallery's collection falls into dozens of categories, such as paintings, sculptures, pottery, (the following are works of folk fine arts) New Year pictures, paper-cuts, toys, shadow puppets, color modeling, paraphernalia, puppets, kites, folk paintings, and embroidery. The collection also includes 117 European and American works of art donated by German collectors Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig. Four of them are by Picasso. These are the first large collections of western works of art in China. Also kept here are hundreds of African wooden sculptures and other foreign works of art.

Over the past 40 years, over 3,100 exhibitions of fine arts or works by renowned Chinese or foreign artists have been held in the gallery. It has become an important place for popular fine arts education.

Address:No.1, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

China Honey Bee Museum is located west of the Wofo Temple inside the Beijing Botanical Garden, at the foot of picturesque Fragrant Hill. The museum is hidden in the mountains, and in the surrounding areas, there are rich resources of plants and flowers. The museum was built 1993, and in 1997, it got the official approval and now has become a popular science education base of Beijing and Haidian District, and the museum hosts permanent popular science exhibition on “honey bees, the friends of the mankind.”

The exhibition hall, with an area of 150 square meters, is divided into three exhibition rooms, where more than 500 photographs and more than 700 specimens, models and items are on display. The exhibition features the origin and fossils of honey bees, the history of apiculture, the relations between honey bees and human culture, China's apicultural resources, honey bee biology, apicultural technology, honey bee pollination, honey bee products and bee therapy, achievements of China's modern apiculture and research results, and international exchanges. The exhibition is vivid and interesting, and knowledge-intensive. The museum also offers consultancy in honey bee product health care, and has honey bee products, apicultural books and souvenirs on sale.

Chaoyang Park, which lies in a busy part in the center of Chaoyang District, is accessible by a number of bus routes.

It extends to Liangmaqiao Road in the north, Chaoyanggongyuan Road in the west, East 4th Ring Road in the east, and Chaoyanggongyuan South Road in the south. It runs to 2.8 kilometers from north to south, and 1.5 kilometers from east to west and covers a total planned area of 2.78 square kilometers with an 87% greenery coverage rate, and 0.68-square-kilometer water-covered area. It is the largest park within the 4th Ring Road. Built in 1984, it was fully opened to the public on Sept. 15, 2004.

The park is close to the embassy district and the central commercial area of Beijing. It is an international scenic spot that blends Chinese and western garden design and architecture, and that offers landscaping, leisure, cultural exchange, and scientific education.

Ecological stream and vale: It lies in the north part of the park. It is a natural vale between hills, where grow many kinds of water plants and such damp-resistant trees as metasequoias and weeping willows. At the source of the stream is a structure built of stones that makes it circulate so as to keep it from staling, thus saving water needed to refresh it. The pool thus formed also serves as the reservoir for the irrigation system.

Waterside Islet: It lies close to the Lotus Lake. It is a natural habitat for mallards, made up of a wooden platform, a membrane-structure pavilion, and a flower-dotted meadow. It is decorated with medium-sized and small sculptures embodying environmental and ecological protection. It shows the rustic charm of the park.

Art Square: It lies in the vicinity of the west gate of the park. As a spacious square, it consists of an elliptical fountain with a sunken center, two groups of oblong fountains, and sculptures. It suggests the scenery of the countryside of Vienna and exudes a rich artistic ambience.

Source of Life: Surrounded by large groves of trees, this is a scenic spot of some grandeur, with lush wood of trees planted on an undulating terrain, and five colored streams flowing out of the wood, which are dotted with signs of sports.

Sightseeing on the lake: Over 200 luxury yachts, speed boats, motorboats, and other boats sail to and fro across the lake. Nearby they look like lotuses, while at a distance they look like stars.

Amusements: The south of the park offers 21 thrilling large-scale forms of entertainment-rollercoaster, swift currents, super spaceship, universe trek, seven-color garden, Sony popular science garden, and pets garden–that are suitable for different ages.

BlueBay(Solana): This is a lifestyle shopping center in the northwest of the park that integrates shopping, exhibition, entertainment, food, and leisure. Covering an area of 150,000 square meters, it is a commercial block that features a lake-side bar street, Lishi Avenue, main-force shops, Liangma Food Street, Central Garden Plaza, Jinxiu City, half-slope ring road block, a fashion supermarket, wine boutiques, and SPA gym.

Cultural activities: In recent years, the park has been building itself into a “culturally famous park” by sponsoring such cultural activities as Spring Festival-Chaoyang International Folk Customs Festival, Labor Day-Chaoyang Pop Music Week, National Day-Merry Garden Party. It has held many large-scale, greatly influential activities such as Thailand Folk Customs Festival, European Folk Customs Festival, Famous Breeds of Cats and Dogs Show, Beijing Chaoyang International Commerce Festival-International Business Vehicle Show, and Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival–Olympic Cultural Plaza.

Address: No.1 Nongzhanguan South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

China Geological Museum is a national AAA tourist attraction. It lies on the southwest of Xisi crossroad, Xicheng District, close to the commercial street in Xidan at the center of Beijing city. It is a modernized comprehensive museum of popular science education for citizens, specimen collection, scientific research, and leisure and sightseeing. Built in 1916 on the site of the mansion Wu Sangui (a general in the early Qing Dynasty) built for his beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan, it was the first public natural scientific museum set up by Chinese.

The museum covers a floor space of 11,000 square meters, of which 4,500 square meters are exhibition area. It is the largest geological museum in Asia, keeping 200,000 specimens. Following the structure of the earth, it has five halls for basic exhibits——the Earth Hall, Minerals and Rocks Hall, Precious Stones Hall, Prehistoric Creatures Hall, and Land and Resources Hall. The exhibition of rocks, minerals, and precious stones has been designated as one of the 10 best exhibitions in the 6th appraisal of national museums.

The museum has two halls for frequently updated temporary exhibitions on hot topics in geology. Exhibits that have been displayed in them include fossils of such dinosaurs as Shantungosaurus giganteus and Sinosauropteryx; fossils of prehistoric human beings–the Peking Man, the Yuanmou Man, and the Upper Cave Man, etc; fossils of prehistoric fishes, birds, and insects that are valuable both for science and for appreciation; the Crystal King——the largest crystal in the world; the specimen of large crystal clusters of fluorite and those of calcite ; specimens of minerals in large reserves in China——azurite, cinnabar, arsenic sulphide, gamboges, scheelite, and zinckenite; a great deal of precious stones and jade that rank as national treasures; Taihu rocks and conglomerates from the garden of Chen Yuanyuan's house; a rose carved out of natural barite presented by Nixon accompanied by Mao Zedong's inscription; and Zhu De's specimen collection.

Apart from displaying thousands of specimens of minerals, rocks, precious stones, and fossils, exhibitions in the museum are centered on environment and mankind’s quality of life. A rich ambience of science is created with digitalized, bionic, and virtue reality technologies. The museum publishes a magazine named Earth, the only popular science magazine of geology in China. Each year it runs geological summer camps for teenagers and popular science lectures, tour exhibitions, and consultations. The exhibition halls also feature free appraisal service, fossil repair demonstration, and souvenir supermarkets.

Address: No.15 Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Xicheng District, Beijing