The Site of Peking Man is located at Zhoukoudian Village, 48 kilometres southwest od Beijing .It is screened by mountains on the northwest with fertile land lying to its southeast. West of the Village stands the Dragn Bone Hill, noted for its large quantities of Chinese medicine dragon bone. Formed by limestone in the Ordovician period, the hill rises 70 metres above the river. It is there that the fossils of the Chinese apeman and their caves were fond.
  The Chinese apeman, also knoen as Peking Man, lived some 690,000years ago, in mid-period od Pleistocene epoch. The first complete skull of Peking Man was discovered in December 1929 by Pei Wenzhong, a Chinese paleoanthropologist. Later, large-scale excavations were done on several occasions, amounting to 25,000 cubic metres of earthwork. Fossils of men and vertebtates were found.Of men fossils alone, a total of 152pieces were uncovered of skulls,fragments of skulls,facial bones,lower jawbones and teeth belonging to over 40individuals of different ages and sexes. The findings of 100,000pieces of stone implements, charred bones and ashes have proved that Peking Man knew how to use fire and was capable of making production tools.The Site of Peking Man provides not only a valuable scientific basis for the study of the origin and development of mankind but also an important base for research in the origin of human species.