In 1998, Shunyi, sized of 1021 square meters, was transformed in district from county, administrating 19 towns, 6 sub-district offices, 424 administrative villages, 564 thousand registered populations and 703 thousand permanent residents. Shunyi is the key constructed city of Beijing, the high-grade industrial zone of airport economy, and modern manufacturing base. As the largest airport of China, Capital International Airport locates there, and the Capital Airport has finished the enlargement invested with 26 billion RMB, whose Terminal 3 has come into operation. The water items of Beijing Olympics and Paralympics were successfully held here with 32 gold medals in all, which received many compliments from all circles of society.In 2009, Shunyi will hold the 7th Flower Expo of China, which is expected to vigorously drive the capital economic development after the Olympic Games. In recent years, Shunyi has made great progress in its social and economic developments, and successively won honors as “the Capital Civilization District”, the “National Advanced District to Build Civilization Villages and Towns”, the “National Advanced District of Sports”, the “National Healthy District”, the “National Demonstration City of Forestation”, the “National Two-supports Model City”, as well as the “National Demonstration District of Food Safety”.