millions of people poured in from every provincial town and village of China, injecting the once-uniform capital with their local spices, accents and attitudes. As an immigrant megacity, Beijing ...

The 4.5-magnitude quake struck a suburb of the nearby port city of Tianjin at 01:21 a.m. local time at ... it added. Beijing, a metropolis of 22 million people, has periodically been affected ...