Luggage policy

Hello,
We are going to Manilla from Geneva and we have a stop over of 7h at Beijing airport and we were wondering do we have to claim our luggage if we want to have a quick visit during this few hours? Beaucause normaly if we check our luggage at Geneva it goes directly to Manilla and it would be great if we would not have to loose time on claimimg our luggage on arrival at Beijing and then checkit again 7h later. Thank you