Shijingshan District () is an urban

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of the city of

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. It lies to the west of the urban core of Beijing, and is part of the Western Hills area, bordering the districts of Haidian to the northeast and east, Fengtai to the south, and Mentougou to the west. The district consists of 9 subdistricts of Beijing's city proper. Although the hills around Yunju Temple may also be called ''Shijingshan'', they have Chinese characters different from those of the district and hence are unrelated to Shijingshan ''District''. It is in area, making it one of the smaller districts in the greater urban part of Beijing (the immense Mentougou District to the west of it dwarfs Shijingshan District), and is home to 489,439 inhabitants (2000 Census). Its

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is 100043.

Administrative divisions

There are 9 subdistricts in the district:

Transportation

The western stretch of the

5th Ring Road Beijing's 5th Ring Road (, China Road Numbering: S50 (Beijing) is a Ring roads of Beijing, ring road encircling the city about away from the city centre. It takes the form of an expressway and is in length. Being a ring road, it has no natur ...

lies in this area. The

Beijing subway The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Direct-controlled municipality, Municipality that consists of 29 lines including 24 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and two light rail, light rail tram line ...

serves this area. China National Highway 109 runs through Shijingshan.

Metro

Shijingshan District is currently served by 4 metro lines of the

Beijing Subway The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Direct-controlled municipality, Municipality that consists of 29 lines including 24 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and two light rail, light rail tram line ...

system: * - Pingguoyuan, Gucheng, Bajiao Amusement Park, Babaoshan, Yuquanlu * - Jin'anqiao, Pingguoyuan, Yangzhuang, Xihuangcun * - , , , * - Pingguoyuan, Jin'anqiao

Important areas

* North China University of Technology *

Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery The Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery () is Beijing's main resting place for the highest-ranking revolutionary heroes, high-ranking government officials and, in recent years, individuals deemed of major importance due to their contributions to soc ...

* Shijingshan Amusement Park * Shougang industrial complex * Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences

Economy

In 2017, the regional GDP of the district was 53.54 billion yuan, with GDP per capita at 87.5 thousand yuan.

Education

Sports

The district is the location of hosting the

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and track-cycling events at the location of the Laoshan Velodrome, as well as hosting the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...

Big Air

snowboarding Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralym ...

and

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events at the Big Air Shougang.

Climate

Shijingshan District has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(

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''Dwa''). The average annual temperature in Shijingshan is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around .

References

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