Ultimate_Waffle
The soul devourer.
Just started a game as the Chinese. Vanilla Civ 5. I already moved the warrior. Where would you settle?

NE on the forest along that river.
In addition to the light house/harbor/etc resources from starting position, the river adds the water mill for more food & production after you get the Wheel (on top of the granary / light house / work boats / etc.)
I would settle on the spice, it is not a tile I would be likely to ever work later and when the time for the second city comes I would have scouted the best river spot.
I would settle on my recliner as I cry because that's what water luxuries near my capital make me do ;_;
Personally I would wait another turn and see what's over that river hill to the northwest with my Warrior. The problem with settling on that Spice that your capital is going to have absolutely horrendous production even once you get those Stone, especially before you can get them improved. In order to get even a single hill within 3-tiles there would have to be some desert ones to the southwest of the Spice.
Buy stuff with what though? The Pearls each need 50 hammer Work Boats to improve them which eats a LOT of time. And down the road, you've got no Water Mill, no Hydro Plant, and no 3/4 hammer Mines to work. I would much rather go settle on that hill unless there's NO luxuries on the other side of it.
I don't like that. There are so many marsh tiles there it will eventually come back to bite you.
I suggest two tiles to the left, you get a double stone start and you will almost 100% get the spice the first time your city expands border.
You can expand to your current NE between the hill and the forest for your second city.
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My main concern on Beijing there is that I think it would eliminate the possibility of founding a southern coastal city which might be desirable if it turns out the sea resource line continues.
It would take a few turns to verify that we don't have for the capital.