Transportation & Reach
With its growth, Beijing has emerged as an important transportation hub. Encircled with many ring roads and expressways, Beijing's public transport system is extensive including a comprehensive bus network and pleasant subway.

Taxis are also plentiful and the most common form of transport for visitors though is necessary to have the destination written in Chinese characters as drivers rarely speak English.

Beijing Airports:

• Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK): It is Beijing’s main airport near Shunyi. Located about 20km northeast of Beijing city center, the airport is carries nearly all international flights and most domestic flights.
  Capital Airport is the main hub for Air China and is efficiently linked to central Beijing by the Airport Expressway.
  
• Nanyuan Airport: Located in the southern suburb of Beijing, Nanyuan is new and smaller airport operated by China United Airlines. It has only three flights every day to Harbin, Wuxi & Dalian.
  There are other four airports too namely, Liangxiang, Xijiao, Shahe & Badaling Airport that are primary for military use and less well known to public.

Beijing Railway Transportation:
Beijing is the railway hub of China with trains to most provincial capitals and all neighboring cities.

There are six main railway stations in Beijing, out of which major ones are:

• Beijing Railway Station. Also known as The Central Station and mainly holds long-haul journeys such as Beijing to Baotou, Beijing to Shanghai or international trains like Moscow, Pyongyang & Ulan Bator.
  
• Beijing West Railway Station. It is the largest railway station in Asia. It has lines to the capital cities of every province, most major and medium sized cities & autonomous regions.
  Three other railway stations in Metropolitan Beijing handle regular passenger traffic to Beijing East, Beijing North, and Fengtai.
  There are also several other small stations serving suburban area.

Local Transportation of Beijing:

• Bus. Nineteen bus stations operate thousands of buses every day in Beijing.
  Neighboring cities such as Datong, Chengde, and Tianjin can be accessed through buses too.
  
  
• Subway. It is the fastest and easiest form of public transport to use in the city. Though not that extensive, but is cheap and more pleasant than taking a bus.
  
• Taxis. Taxi service is pervasive in Beijing with large number of unregistered taxis too.
  Further the city has the largest junction of major roads in China, with comprehensive highways and expressways network.

Hotels & Accommodation
Given today’s size and status of Beijing as one of the most frequently visited and economically, politically and culturally important cities in Asia, a great number of international standard hotels exist in the city.

A wide variety of accommodations are spread throughout this vast commercial city. The lodging facilities are being further enhanced to accommodate the flow of visitors during 2008 Olympics.

Hotels of Beijing	Average Rates
5-Star	$85-200
4-Star	$55-80
2-Star	$25-50
Budget Hotels	$10-24