1983, Clifton W. Pannell, Laurence J. C. Ma,China: The Geography of Development and Modernization[1], V. H. Winston & Sons,→ISBN,page85:
The city of Peking has 85 neighborhoods, each with more than 50,000 residents (Luo, 1980). The Fengsheng Neighborhood in theXicheng District of Peking, for example, has 14,136 families and 52,978 persons.
In Xixingsheng lane of theXicheng District, more than 20 armed policemen were beaten up by mobs; some were badly injured, and the others’ whereabouts are unknown.
Xicheng The sector immediately west of the Forbidden City,Xicheng is the site of some of the most extensive oldhutong (alleyway) neighborhoods left in Beijing.
2021 October 30, “China cracks down over 'serious' Covid outbreak”, inFrance 24[4], archived fromthe original on30 October 2021:
In Beijing, authorities ordered all cinemas closed until November 14 in the capital'sXicheng district, which lies west of Tiananmen Square and is home to over a million people.
