Beijing Transport

Railway

There are 5 passenger train station in Beijing. Beijing West Railway Station is the largest one. There are more than 30 routes on the Jingguang Line that depart and arrive from the Beijing West Railway Station. Tourists can get to the capital city of each province, autonomous region (excluding Tibet, Hainan and Taiwan) and other cities in China by train from Beijing.

Beijing Railway Station
Beijing Railway Station is one of the important railway hubs. It is located in the heart of the city, on the west side of the Jianguomen in Dongcheng District.

Destinations include: Changchun, Chengde, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Jilin, Nanjing, Qiqihar, Shanghai, Shenyang, Suzhou, Tianjin, and Yangzhou. The trains for Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), Russia, and North Korea also leave from here. 

Beijing West Railway Station
Beijing West Railway Station is located in Fengtai District. Opened to the public since 1996, Beijing West Railway Station was the most large scale passage railway station at that period.

Train destinations from Beijing West include: Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Datong, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Hefei, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Ningbo, Qinhuangdao, Sanya, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, and Xiamen. This station has no immediate connection to the metro system. See below for transport options leaving the station. 

Beijing South Railway Station
Beijing South Railway Station, at present, is the largest railway station in the world, enjoys the fame as “the No. 1 railway station in Asia”. As the beginning station of Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Train, Beijing South Railway Station connects Beijing Railway Station in the east, Jinghu Railway and Dongshan Railway in the west, becoming the first high standard modern passages railway hub in China.

Beijing North Railway Station
Beijing North Railway Station is located in Xicheng District. This station is the station served for the first China’s designing railway - Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. Small compared to the previous three, but you might end up here if you are coming in from Inner Mongolia. 

Destinations include Chifeng, Fuxin, Haila'er, Hohhot, Longhua, Luanping, Nankou, Shacheng, Tongliao, and Zhangjiakou. It also offers tour train services to Yanqing and the Badaling Great Wall. 

Beijing East Railway Station
Beijing East Railway Station is located in Chaoyang District. With the original name Dongjiao Railway Station, this station was built in 1938 as the east gate of Beijing railway system. One daily service to Chengde only.

Roads and expressways
Beijing is connected via road links from all parts of China as part of the National Trunk Road Network. Nine expressways of China connect with Beijing, as do eleven China National Highways. Within Beijing itself, an elaborate network of five ring roads has developed, but they appear more rectangular than ring-shaped. Due partly to its design as an ancient capital, roads in Beijing often are in one of the four compass directions.

Beijing's urban transport is dependent upon the five "ring roads" that successively surround the city, with the Forbidden City area marked as the geographical centre for the ring roads. The 1st Ring road is not officially defined. The 2nd Ring Road is fully located in Beijing's inner city areas. Ring roads tend to resemble expressways progressively as they extend outwards, with the 5th Ring Road and 6th Ring Road being full-standard National expressways - linked to other roads only with interchanges. Expressways to other regions of China are generally accessible from the 3rd Ring Road outward. Changan Avenue runs east-west through the centre of Beijing, past Tiananmen. It is a major through route of the city
 

Air

Beijing's primary airport is the Beijing Capital International Airport (IATA: PEK) near Shunyi, which is about 20 km northeast of city centre. With renovations for the 2008 Olympics, the airport now boasts three terminals, with Terminal 3 being one of the largest in the world. Most domestic and nearly all international flights arrive at and depart from Capital Airport. Capital Airport is the main hub for Air China. The capital links Beijing with almost every other Chinese city with regular air passenger service. It is linked to central Beijing by the Airport Expressway and is a roughly 40-minute drive from the city centre during good traffic hours. Prior to the 2008 Olympics, another expressway, the 2nd Airport Expressway, was built to the Airport, as well as a light rail system, which is now connected to the Beijing Subway.

Public transit
The Beijing Subway system opened in 1971, and only consisted of two lines until the opening of the northern arc Line 13 in 2002. Due to recent expansion, the evolving system now has nine lines, four of which are underground, and five are above ground. Line 1, along with its new eastern expansion known as the Batong Line crosses almost all of urban Beijing from east to west. Lines 4 and 5 serve as two north-south axial lines.

There is an extensive system nearly 700 bus and trolleybus routes in Beijing as of 2008, including three bus rapid transit routes. Registered taxis can also be found throughout Beijing. Most of them are Hyundai and Fukang cars.

Source: Wikipedia