Affordable housing for the Fall semester

• Source: Global Times
• [22:50 September 21 2009]
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According to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, close to 66,000 foreign students in total attended classes at seventy-six different universities in Beijing during the 2008-2009 academic year, an increase of more than 20,000 students from the previous year. Many students for the upcoming academic year will eschew campus dormitories and look for apartments off-campus to get a better taste of life in a Chinese city. Here are some apartment complexes suitable for the newest additions to Beijing's best and brightest foreign academics:

Dong Sheng Yuan

Location: Wudaokou, Haidian District, south of Hua Qing Jia Yuan, five-minute walk to the Wudaokou subway station

Type: Standard residential building

Nearby Universities: Renmin University, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Beijing Forestry University

Public Transportation: subway line 13 and buses: 355, 731, 375, 319, 466, 333, 331, 690, 656, 628, 438

What's Nearby: shopping mall, supermarket, post office, hospital, kindergarten, elementary and middle schools

Nearby Banks: ICBC, China Construction Bank, China Agriculture Bank

# Bedrooms Size (m2) Monthly Rent (RMB)

2 65-90 3,500-4,500

1 62-65 3,000-3,500