Beijing Review

President: Li Yafang Associate Editors in Chief: Li Jianguo, Ding Zhitao Assistant President: Li Zhenzhou Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editors: Zan Jifang, Liu Yunyun, Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Editorial Administrators:

Villagers at the foot of Mount Qomolangma have a meal and relax after the spring plowing ceremony on May 4. Spring arrives there relatively late because of its high altitude Researchers have reconstructed the pattern and mechanism of precipitation va

Despite the serious impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), China hasn’t seen massive layoffs, and its employment situation is basically stable. According to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics, unemployment rate in urban areas

The author is deputy director of the Digital Belt and Road Research Center, China Institute, Fudan University, and a researcher with the Chunqiu Institute for Development and Strategic Studies While the prevalence of the novel coronavirus disease (CO

Gong Xiangyu, a female Chinese volleyball player, was awarded this year’s National Outstanding Member of the Communist Youth League of China, according to a notice released on May 3. The 23-year-old Gong was born in Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province, e

At the age of 18, Michael Hermann from Dortmund, then part of the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to become an international volunteer. Since 2005, he has worked in China on poverty alleviation and disease control in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces

China’s top securities regulator has adjusted the threshold for innovative red chip companies, or companies registered overseas but operating in the Chinese mainland, eligible to seek listing on the domestic market under a pilot scheme. The new requi

The author is director of the China Institute for Employment Research at Renmin University of China The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic halted many business activities and put downward pressure on the economy. Rising unemployment in har

Hu Pingyu, co-founder of an electronics group in Zhejiang Province in east China, decided with his partners to switch their business to face mask production in early March in light of a sharp decline of orders for electronics amid the epidemic. So hi

The author is a senior researcher with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is a major public health crisis unseen in about 100 years. There is also a possibility that the disease may

A model wearing a red dress restored according to the style of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 B.C.) walked onto the runway to the music of the xun, an egg-shaped aerophone and one of the oldest musical instruments in China. Her appearance kicked o

In late April, the workshop of Huaibei Laibote Photo Frame Manufacturing Co. Ltd. hummed with the sound of machines from time to time as dozens of staff worked on the assembly lines. However, it was much quieter compared to March and April in previou

In the early hours of the morning in Shanghai, 2004, a man pulling a three-wheel cart cycles through the streets. Hunched over his handlebars, he meanders through the jumble of alleyways crowded with furniture being sold by elderly couples, passing

ChiNext, China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, will replace its approval-based initial public offering (IPO) system with a registration-based one to better cultivate new industry startups and bolster the real economy, in the latest leg of