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Beijing Hongxing
Beijing Hongxing Co. Ltd (), commonly known as "Hongxing" () is a baijiu distillery in Beijing, China. The distillery is best known for producing an iconic, low-cost erguotou baijiu, a variety of qingxiang (清香; "light aroma") baijiu which is the most popular baijiu sold in the Chinese capital city. History The origin of erguotou dates back to 1680 when the three Zhou brothers, as the heads of the Yuanshenghao distillery, developed the technique after noticing that as the condenser of the still needed cooling, it was the product resulting from the second of three pots of cooling water that produced the finest product. It was after this process that the style was named "Er-Guo-Tou"(二锅头; "Second-Pot-Head"). During the Chinese Civil War the seeds of Beijing Hongxing were sewn when the People's Republic banned the private production and sale of liquor and implemented a state monopoly on production. In May of that year, the "North China Liquor Company" (later renamed Beij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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} Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an city proper, administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
