Beijing is buzzing as it prepares to welcome the world for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. With the city preening itself, this is a great time to visit and experience the mix of old and new that has become so characteristic of today’s China. In this dynamic city, you’ll see sleek skyscrapers, colorful billboards, and seas of business people talking on cell phones. But turn a corner and you’ll find elderly women practicing tai chi in city parks, bicycles pulling carts of fresh melons, and sidewalk stands hawking bowls of delicious noodles for pocket change…signs that the China of yesterday still has a place in the China of tomorrow.

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