Beijing is a city under rapid development. More than 60% of the complaints on the environment comes from noise pollution. With a road system of total length of 4200 km and thousands of construction sites, road traffic, and construction are the most important noise sources in Beijing. One third of its population of nearly 14 million inhabitants and more than 3 million visitors is influenced by traffic noise and 16% of its inhabitants are living along various roads and expressways. A series of noise control measures have been taken since the early 1980s, such as road system reconstruction and improvement, industrial noise source control, vehicle noise control, as well as various administrative steps, which reduced the traffic noise by 7 dBA with the number and average flux of vehicles multiplied by more than three times and kept the city in a day–night average level around 64 dBA. In this paper, the environmental noise legislation in Beijing is briefly introduced. The historical progress in noise control is reviewed. The noise pollution up-to-date is given and discussed. Some possible improvements and potential opportunities are presented.