He said the company had not asked anybody to move out but offered to help spouses or younger children leave Beijing if they wanted.

Earlier this week it was reported that senior Chinese leaders had left Beijing.

The survey also showed that people entered or left Beijing 880,000 times a day.

Some of his friends had suggested he leave Beijing.

Disillusioned with his prospects when we left Beijing, he appeared to have found a new faith.

"And I'm going to leave Beijing for a while, just to be safe."

He told security officials he was leaving Beijing for health reasons.

It had been four days since they'd spoken, longer than any time since he'd left Beijing.

But it wasn't so easy to leave Beijing if the government was looking for you.

She was to have taken part in this event and the time trial to follow, but had left Beijing on 31 July, before the race.