Format: Hardback

Publisher: Evans Publishing Group (2009)

Pages: 64

2007 is the year that the world's population becomes more urban than rural for the first time. This exciting series explores some of these global cities, and looks at how the challenges of urbanisation, globalisation, citizenship and sustainability are being met and answered.

Beijing is the capital of China, the most populous country in the world. After a period of communist rule, China relaxed its economic controls in the mid-1990s to allow growth.