On 16 October 1945, a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Nanyuan Airport in Beiping (now known as Beijing), killing all 59 people on board.
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Jietai Temple is a Buddhist temple in Mentougou District in western Beijing, China. It was constructed during the Tang dynasty, with major modifications made during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Like the older Tanzhe Temple nearby along China National Highway 108, Jietai Temple is now a tourist attraction of Beijing.
The temple is located on the mountainside of the Ma'an mountain approximately 25 kilometers from downtown Beijing. It was first built in the Kaihuang period of the Sui dynasty and was originally called the Huiju Temple.
The ordination altar in Jietai Temple is known as one of the three largest ordination altars in China together with the other two in Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian and Zhaoqing Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. As it has largest construction scale, so it is also called the "First Altar in the World".
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Xiaoyuan station is a station on Line S1 of the Beijing Subway, it was opened on 30 December 2017.
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Shichang station is a station on and the western terminus of Line S1 of the Beijing Subway, it was opened on 30 December 2017.
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Liyuanzhuang station is a station on Line S1 of the Beijing Subway, it opened on 30 December 2017.
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Yongding Town is a town that the southeastern corner of Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It borders Longquan Town, Dayu and Guangning Subdistricts in the north, Gucheng Subdistrict in the east, Wangzuo Town and Beigong Town in the south, Tanzhesi Town in the west, and has an exclave north of Tanzhesi Town. It had 106,112 people living within its borders as of 2020.
The area was named Yongding after the Yongding River that passes through it.
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