Shijingshan District () is an urban
district of the municipality of
Beijing. 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
Yunju Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Fangshan District, southwest of Beijing and contains the world's largest collection of stone Buddhist sutra steles in the world. Yunju Temple also contains one of only two extant woodblocks for ...
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
postal code 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 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 natural start or end point, ...
lies in this area. The
Beijing subway serves this area.
China National Highway 109 runs through Shijingshan.
Metro
Shijingshan District is currently served by 4 metro lines of the
Beijing Subway system:
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Pingguoyuan,
Gucheng,
Bajiao Amusement Park,
Babaoshan,
Yuquanlu
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Jin'anqiao,
Pingguoyuan,
Yangzhuang,
Xihuangcun
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Pingguoyuan,
Jin'anqiao
Important areas
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North China University of Technology
North China University of Technology () is a university in Shijingshan District, Western Beijing, People's Republic of China.
The predecessor was the national Beiping advanced industrial vocational school, founded in 1946. The Central Committe ...
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Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
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Shijingshan Amusement Park
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Shougang industrial complex
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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
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
BMX
BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation.
History
BMX began during the earl ...
and
track-cycling events at the location of the
Laoshan Velodrome, as well as hosting the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
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 Paralympi ...
and
freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, Mogul Skiing, moguls, Ski Cross, cross, Half-pipe skiing, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics. It can consist of a ...
events at the
Big Air Shougang.
Climate
Shijingshan District has a
humid continental climate (
Köppen climate classification ''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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Districts of Beijing
Venues of the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarding venues