Shenglianshan Holiday Resort is located in Shiajiaying township of Fangshan District in Beijing, about 90 kilometers from downtown. The original name of Shenglianshan scenic area was Shengmishitang, and was one of Beijing's top eight scenic attractions. Atop of the hill, there are several attraction sites, including the well-known Taoist temple built in the 13th year of the Republic of China—the Pantao Palace, the Buddhist temple built during the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty—the Shengquan Temple, and villas built by Cao Kun, Wu Peifu and Yang Xiaolou during the Republic of China. Spring water from the naturally formed karst cave—the Shengshui Cave—never ceases to gush out all year round. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty sent persons here to fetch water for the imperial court use. Half way up the cliff and slope, there is a four-meter-high statue—the Shengmu Statue, which was built in the 14th year of the Republic of China and is still well preserved after some 100 years. Shenglian Mountain is 930 meters above sea level, and is a tourist and sightseeing attraction with both historical and cultural heritages and natural landscapes.

Shentang Valley is located in Yanqi Town of Huairou District. It is a natural scenic spot including mountains, waters, ancient Great Wall and folk customs. It was opened to tourists since June 1993.

Shentang Valley was originally named as Sparrow-hawk Valley. It was said that an old rhizotomist who passed here built a cottage and lived here after finding that there were full of medicinal herbs. He picked herbs every day and worked as a doctor for local people. Later the old man became a celestial being, so people changed the name of the valley to Shentang (which means celestial beings' hall).

Shentang Valley is divided into sightseeing district, Great Wall scenic spot, recreational district, folk customs and vacation district, and site education district. Guandi Village, the experimental new countryside of Beijing, is located inside the scenic spot. The main human landscape here is the ancient Great Wall, one of the main fortifications of Ming Great Wall, the second pass to the east of Qilian Pass. Stretching for seven kilometers, it is connected to Sima Station in the east, and Mutianyu Great Wall in the west, with more than 30 well preserved watch towers. The aquatic watch tower of 40 meters in length, 30 meters in width and 20 meters in height is located in the water of Shentang Valley Pass. Wangjing Tower and Beacon Fire Tower are on the mountains on both of its sides. The ancient castle, the place for stationing frontier soldiers, is a square type small city. It is 28 meters both in length and width, eight meters in height, occupying an area of 6,400 square meters. There are still stone mortars that soldiers used to pound rice. The “Shentang Valley Pass” monument, stele and three copper guns are exhibited at the place where they were unearthed. The natural sights include three peaks, among which the main peak of Tianji is 875 meters high. The plantation coverage rate on the mountains is above 95%. In the dense forests, there are more than 100 kinds of animals, such as badger, roe, squirrel, berghaan and wild rabbits, etc. There are also more than 100 kinds of wild flowers and fruits, including Red Azalea, mountainous chrysanthemum, calceolaria, filbert, mountainous cherry, wild grapes, etc., scores of wild vegetables of bracken, magnolia shoots, agar, longevity vegetable, etc. and more than 100 kinds of herbals including Salvia miltiorrhiza, Corydalis bungeana, alpinia, phrymaceae, etc. There are more than 2000 mu of forests such as Chinese pines, mulberry, walnuts, hill haws, and Chinese chestnuts, etc.

The sceneries in the valley include: “Stone falls” is a huge granite cliff of more than 100 square meters. Due to long years of washing by rains, it is very smooth, and looks like two still falls, thus is named as “stone falls”. With the sound like beating drums, the “drum beating stone” is a whole piece of huge stone of 17 meters in length and 15 meters in width. Local farmers always thrash grains on it. Rain praying stage of dragon pond is a huge stone, three meters in length and two meters in width, on top of the pond. In ancient times, people often came here to pray for rain when in drought. There are also sceneries such as Hat of Jigong, One-stone-three-scenes, Camel Summit, Lying Elephant Hall, Fairy Cave, Deity Tortoise, Mandarin-duck Pond, saint chanting sutras, sealed book stone, phoenix ridge, first falls of Saint Hall, Nuwa cottage, etc. There is the source of Yanqi River gathered by scores of springs. The river twists and turns, with the water discharge at 3-5 cubic meters per second and the temperature always at 15℃. In 1992, specialized department proved that there are beneficial components in the spring, including kalium, lithium, metasilicic acid, magnesium hydrogen bicarbonate, and it conforms to the grade 2 standard of drinking water. The springs flow down the mountains to form the sights of Dragon Pond, Mandarin-duck Pond, Crocodile Pond, and Yixian Pond, etc. The “Dragon Pond Massacre” took place during the Japanese invasion. A monument has been set up on the site, which was entitled as the patriotism education base by Beijing. Festival of Golden Autumn Leaf Appreciation and Picking is held every September and October.

Located in Qinglonghu Town in Fangshan District, Qinglong (Green Dragon) Lake Water Paradise is 28 kilometers from the city. Qinglong Lake is the largest of and the nearest water scenery to the city area. With a capability of 29 million stere of water, it covers an area of 400 hectare, which totals the water area of the Summer Palace, Yuyuantan, Beihai and Zhongnanhai. The lake has such recreations as sand beach bathing, water parachute, motor boat, paddle boat, dragon boat, racing car, light plane, crazy mouse and more. Qinglong Lake is known as Mini Beach in Beijing.

Located on top of Mountain Mangshan on the left bank of the Thirteen Ming Tombs Reservoir of Changping District, Science Corridor of Underground Popularizing Electric Power is a popular science scenic spot.

The Science Corridor of Underground Popularizing Electric Power is 1,100 meters long, a cave leading to the underground workshop of energy storage power plant of the Thirteen Ming Tombs. There are altogether 101 lamp boxes in the corridor. The lamp boxes, pictures, speech and real articles combine to introduce the popular science knowledge from the discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 to the application of modern power supply; the sand table model introduces the principles of energy storage power plant of the Thirteen Ming Tombs and the composition of the power plant. After going through the popular science corridor, one will have an all-round and systematic understanding of the scientific knowledge of electric power.

Located near the Dashuiyu Pass of the ancient Great Wall in Huaibei Town, Huairou District, Beijing, Qinglong Canyon is a national water conservancy scenic spot, including green mountains, crystal water and ancient Great Wall. It used to be called Dashuiyu Reservoir.

In the 1970s, the first concrete gravity-arch dam in Beijing, which was 59 meters high, 283 meters long and four meters wide, was built on the exit of the Dashuiyu Reservoir, so as to form a valley type reservoir containing 14.60 million cubic meters of water and with a drainage area of 55.6 square kilometers. The words of “Qinglong Canyon” at a height of six meters are written on the exterior side of the dam. The scenic spot was developed by Huairou Water Resource Bureau in 1995, and was formally opened to the public in 1996.

Occupying an area of 150 hectares, stretching more than 10 li, and 30 to 50 meters in width, the Qinglong Canyon has mountains winding along on both sides. The original Great Wall is lying on top of the mountains. There are dense plantations, deep valleys, beautiful mountain flowers, and flowing streams. The mountains, water and ancient Great Wall contrast finely with each other. The elegance of the south and the majesty of the north are both embodied here.

This place used to be the “Dashuiyu Pass” of the Ming Great Wall, which was built in the period from 1403 to 1424. Occupying a strategic position, this pass has three gates in the east, south and west. It is the transportation fortress on the way from the capital to Dage and Rehe in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The canyon has a long history, a unique geographical position and a pleasing and cool climate all year long. The mountainous area of the canyon is full of steep mountains and running waters. The annual precipitation is about 800 mm. The dam is in the middle of the scenic spot, dividing it into four parts. The water in the south part is about one meter in depth, so bamboo rafts and rowing boats are mainly used here. The water in the north is 40 to 50 meters in depth, so dragon boat, barge and speed boat are provided here. In the summer, there are beach bathing spots here. In the west, there is the Qinglong Canyon ropeway, which is 800 meters in length, and 369 meters in drop height. In the east area, there are recreation items such as bungee, rock climbing, prompt drop, swing on water, and directional glide, etc. Since 1988, activities such as planting festival, appreciating flowers in the spring, passing summer in a leisurely way, picking fruits in the autumn, and snow and ice travel in the winter have attracted many tourists. There are more than 20 scenic spots, including clouds on the cliffs, dragon in the gully, foggy waves, old man peering at water, one stone and six sceneries, faerie on the tortoise, rabbit watching the city, rushing falls, Heaven Emperor's stage, etc.