Beijing Review

More than 20 days have passed since the Chinese Government launched an all-out battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia on January 20, and the campaign has now entered a critical stage. Since February 8, the number of recovered patients dischar

A worker at a company in Changsha, Hunan Province in central China, makes goggles for medical staff using 3D printing on February 11. The company started making the goggles after the novel coronavirus outbreak and can produce over 200 pairs using abo

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said on February 10 it is prepared to support China with public health infrastructure loans to meet the country’s immediate and longer-term public health needs. The bank has been in active discussions w

Li Lanjuan, a famous epidemiologist and member of the expert panel appointed by the Chinese Government, has made great progress in helping prevent and control the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia. Recently, her team succeeded in the treatm

When the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus struck 17 years ago, China was inching its way toward the information era. Alibaba was building the online shopping platform Taobao and developing its payment service Alipay, and the number of r

As a big data engineer based in Beijing, Li Kun got into telecommuting as early as 2013, but he said that today, during the novel coronavirus outbreak, he has seen it grow like never before. To reduce face-to-face contact and prevent the spread of th

Before January, Lu Sa, a professor at China Jiliang University in Zhejiang Province in east China, had never heard of Zeng Heqiong, who lives and works in central China. But the novel coronavirus outbreak has brought the two women together as collabo

The author is professor of politics and director of the International Graduate Program in Politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai While the current novel coronavirus outbreak continues to affect many in China, looming questions remain re

Does the novel coronavirus outbreak mean economic opportunities for the U.S. that wouldn’t have been possible under normal circumstances? Some U.S. media and officials seem to hold that unkind hope. However, it is unlikely as the impact of the virus

The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and a researcher with the Pangoal Institution U.S. President Donald Trump’s supremely confident State of the Union address on February 4, his third, was more campaign rhetoric as he seeks reelectio

The author is an associate professor with the Institute of Middle East Studies of Northwest University of China U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, called by some the “deal of the century,” is an important step—to win the support of

Although schedules have been disrupted and programs postponed by the novel coronavirus outbreak, the release of the Central Government’s first policy statement of the year—the No.1 Central Document—on February 5 showed that China remains resolute in

From the onset of the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, in late 2019, people have been trying to unravel a mystery: Where did the virus come from, and how was it first passed to humans? Although defi

The author is acting dean of the Digital Economy Institute at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law As the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia is brought under control, China’s economic activity will recover to normal levels, notwithstandi

Strategic emerging industries are flourishing as China advances economic transformation and upgrading, injecting new impetus into high-quality development. The country’s GDP grew to 99.09 trillion yuan ($14.38 trillion) last year, with percapita GDP

I was in Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday when the news of the spread of the novel coronavirus in China really started heating up. I still had another week of travel before heading home to Beijing on February 1, and the rising number of tex