Opened in 1910 during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), it has long served as both a military and commercial airport. In 1986, it became the main hub for China United Airlines after serving the military for decades.
More than a century later, the sun shines onto the same sparkling blue sea under which Chinese battleships sunk by the invading Japanese fleet in 1894 have been in darkness ever since.
Zhang Zhongru, the first president of People's Liberation Army University of International Relations and a veteran of the fighting that preceded the birth of the People's Republic of China, died in Beijing on Thursday at the age of 100.
A list of 39 newly-named national patriotic education bases was made public by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, bringing the total number of such bases to 473.
