Over 600 people gathered on Friday morning in front of the new office buildings of the Beijing municipal government in Tongzhou district for a flag-raising ceremony, marking that the government has formally begun work in the new location.

Those in attendance included the Party chief of the capital Cai Qi, Mayor Chen Jining, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress Li Wei, and Chairman of the Beijing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Ji Lin. Following the ceremony, these four distinguished individuals also inaugurated the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Beijing Municipal People's Government, the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, and the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC.