At the beginning of 70s of the last century, I spent my childhood in the Hutong near the Beijing Imperial Palace Wall. Although my generation is far way from the Old Beijing in my ancestor’s times, the City in my childhood memory is actually another image from the present New Beijing in real life. At that time, the street was not as jammed as it is now. Having had dinner in spring evening, people would like to go for a stroll along the Tongzi River to help the digestion. The spring is warm and tender and is just like a light green picture. In this picture, breeze tenderly strokes people’s faces, willow branches sway in the breeze and swallows frolic in the opposite bank. It seems people also become part of this picture. During the summer, the favorite game for the youngsters is to fumble clams in the river. The cicadas sing so vigorously in the trees. It’s so hot that even Beida Red Mansion seems withered in this hot air. My favorite place is the umbrage in Beichizi Street. In the fall, the air becomes cool and even the sky seems higher. What impressed me the most is the corner towers in the setting sun with its sunny side glittering and shady side solemn! Apart from the Eight Sights of Beijing, I think this image should be the ninth Great Sight. After the snow, Beijing City is all covered in. The outline of battlements are more clear and even the sparrows get more vitality which make the dull season full of vigor and vitality. More than thirty years has past and it seems like yesterday. At this very moment, I fully understand Mr. Qiu Fengjia’s regret in one hundred years ago: during the night recalling the childhood, great changes in the past forty years. The impression of Beijing in my childhood time has faded. Wherever I go, even the flourishing Tokyo or the elegant Washington, the City of Beijing can not be replaced in my mind. In this city, I spent several decades here and also I have my best memories and my old charming days.

Since ancient Zhoukoudian people started their living in Fangshan district of Beijing suburb about hundreds of thousands of years, the vast Yanzhao aera[1] had became the natural habitat of human ancestors. However, the history of Beijing City can go back to Shang Dynasty about 3,000 years ago. Some unearthed ritual vessels relics in Pinggu district in Beijing are the products of that time. Since Liao and Jin Dynasty (10th Century), Beijing has been the capital for more than thousands years. Like a squatting tiger, Beijing’s natural geographic advantages are obvious, backing the Yanshan Mountain, facing the Huabei plane, linking the Yuquan River to the West, and bordering on the sea to the East. In the process of civilization evolving, Beijing’s development is a long march and will be progressing unceasingly. From the Yuan Dynasty Wall to Ming Dynasty Imperial City, Beijing has never stops its development. Hence, the urban pattern of North-South Axis on one line and West-East Connection came into shape. It’s only recently that some new booming modern elements begin to shaping Beijing with the acceleration of urbanization. With these new elements infiltrate into every links of people’s livelihood, both people’s thoughts and manners are changing dramatically. Beijing now is set its foot on the road of exploration of modern city. With these facts before us, it is our duty to explore and spread Beijing’s tradition, retain the unique local historic elements, and inherit the inherent civilized factors. We, as a generation of a connecting link between the preceding and the following, should shoulder the task and accomplish it.

In the tides of modernization, Electricity, in different forms, has permeated into all the aspects o