▶Today's Weather Cloudy during the day with showers in mountainous areas, north winds at level 3-4 with gusts at level 6-7, maximum temperature 26℃; cloudy turning clear at night, north winds at level 1-2, minimum temperature 15℃. Blue wind warning in effect, strong north winds today, take precautions against wind and falling objects when going out.
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▶Beijing's Average PM2.5 Concentration Drops to 25.6 μg/m³ in January-August 2025 From January to August 2025, Beijing's average fine particulate matter concentration was 25.6 μg/m³, down 17.2% year-on-year; 198 days with good air quality, an increase of 20 days compared to the same period last year. In August, the city's monthly average PM2.5 concentration was 16.7 μg/m³. Beijing will continue to implement intensive "0.1 microgram" action plans, persistently advancing improvements in structural, engineering, and management areas, coordinating regional joint prevention and control for comprehensive autumn and winter pollution control, striving to continuously improve air quality.
▶Shuangjing Express and Food Delivery Workers Get Public Rental Housing in Central CBD Recently, a public rental housing project called "Yishe" has been established on West Dawang Road in Beijing's CBD. The project includes 208 rooms specifically for new employment groups. According to Shuangjing Street officials, the street coordinated with district-level departments and local enterprises to establish "Yishe" on West Dawang Road, with operators connecting with express and food delivery companies, offering monthly rent of around 700 yuan per person.
▶Tsinghua University Science Museum to Complete Structural Topping, Building Design Rich with Technological Significance This year, Tsinghua University's Science Museum will complete its structural topping. By 2027, it is expected to become China's first comprehensive collection-based research science museum open to the public. On the open space between Tsinghua University Art Museum and the Academy of Fine Arts building, construction of the Science Museum project is in full swing, with a double "T" shaped building rising from the ground. "T" represents the first letter of Tsinghua, and two "T"s joined together resemble the mathematical constant "π". Incorporating important constants from mathematics and natural sciences into the museum's exterior design directly highlights the museum's "science" theme.
▶Beijing: Municipal Government Relocation Basically Complete As the "14th Five-Year Plan" concludes, Beijing presents its economic and social development achievements. At yesterday's first session of the capital's "14th Five-Year Plan" high-quality completion series press conference, Beijing Development and Reform Commission Director Yang Xiuling introduced that the three provinces and cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have cooperated closely, achieving significant results in coordinated development. Among these achievements, Beijing's sub-center development has steadily progressed from orderly expanding the urban framework to comprehensively enhancing functional quality, with municipal government relocation basically complete.
▶Commercial Facilities Operational, Beijing Added 25 "Xidan Joy City" Equivalents in Past 4 Years During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, despite facing impacts from the pandemic and other challenges, Beijing's high-quality economic development achieved new breakthroughs, with total economic output expected to exceed 5 trillion yuan. Beijing Development and Reform Commission Deputy Director Zhang Xin responded at yesterday's press conference that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's economy demonstrated strong resilience and great potential, with stable foundations and sufficient vitality, following an upward trajectory despite continued pressure. In terms of consumption, in the first 4 years of the "14th Five-Year Plan," a batch of high-quality commercial facilities became operational with a total area exceeding 5 million square meters, equivalent to 25 Xidan Joy City shopping centers.
▶2026 Forbidden City Calendar Released, 4 "Horse Artifact Exhibitions" You Can Take Home With more than 3 months until 2026, the 2026 Forbidden City Calendar was released yesterday. The zodiac version, calligraphy and painting version, youth version, and Chinese-English bilingual version serve as 4 "horse artifact exhibitions" that can be taken home, selecting horse, scholar, education, and study-related artifacts from different perspectives to showcase the history and charm of Chinese horse culture. The Forbidden City Calendar has been published continuously for 17 years, with cumulative circulation exceeding 8.5 million copies.
▶Beijing's First Water-based Outdoor Performance Space Debuts! "One of Five Dance Wonders" Takes the Stage On the evening of September 15, the 2025 Liangma River International Arts Festival opened. Until the end of November, Chaoyang District will center around Liangma River, hosting approximately 100 artistic activities including performances, exhibitions, and promotions. "Carmen" was presented by Spain's Madrid Flamenco Dance Company, known as "one of the five wonders of dance," marking the first performance after Shell Theater's renovation. After renovation, Shell Theater became Beijing's first water-based outdoor performance space, with a stage area exceeding 500 square meters and outdoor stepped viewing area with seven tiers. In the first half of 2025, Chaoyang District's various performance box office revenue reached approximately 1.1 billion yuan, driving comprehensive consumption of over 7.5 billion yuan.
▶120 Beds! Another Elderly Care Service Center in Shunyi Ready for Operation Recently, the Houshayu Town Elderly Care Service Center project was completed, with plans to finish completion acceptance and related work by the end of this month. Once operational, it can provide 120 elderly care beds, further optimizing Houshayu Town's elderly care service system and expanding balanced, reasonable, high-quality, and efficient elderly care service supply covering urban and rural areas and benefiting all people.
▶Beijing's "Three 100s" Key Project! BOE Life Science Industrial Base Opened Yesterday On September 15, BOE Life Science Industrial Base located in Fangshan District announced its opening. As one of Beijing's "Three 100s" key projects, this base will provide solid industrial support for cultivating new productive forces in the capital and inject strong momentum for coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei health industry.
▶Beijing Subway "Scholarly Beijing" Themed Train Goes into Operation with Good Books On September 15, the "Scholarly Beijing" themed train began operating on Metro Line 1 Batong Line. Simultaneously, light boxes at 10 core stations including Wangfujing, Dongdan, and Guomao displayed "Scholarly Beijing" themed images. The "Scholarly Beijing" themed train launched this time uses "New Knowledge After Reading, Culture Enriching Beijing" as its core design concept, operating from September 15, 2025, to October 12, 2025. Moving forward, Beijing Subway Company will continue exploring new "subway + reading" models, further promoting universal reading, creating a stronger scholarly atmosphere, and helping build Beijing's "Scholarly Beijing" city brand.
▶Erythromycin Ointment Should Never Be Used Carelessly! Tell Your Family Immediately Erythromycin ointment is widely applied to various conditions and scenarios, making it an almost essential household medication. However, most of these applications are actually misuse. Under promotion by certain bloggers, erythromycin ointment is treated as a "universal medicine," used for mosquito bites, eczema, acne, athlete's foot, daily skincare, and many people even apply it to babies' "red bottoms" (diaper rash). Using erythromycin ointment alone for treating "red bottoms" is not recommended in most cases. Erythromycin ointment can neither relieve itching nor reduce inflammation, only serving to reduce infection risk at bite sites.