Beijing Review

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

Due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, some countries banned grain exports this year while some faced invasion by locust swarms, reducing global grain supplies. This triggered concerns about whether China would face a grain shortage this year. Howeve

A workshop for producing toughened glass in Tianzhu, a county in Guizhou Province in southwest China. Over 30 enterprises have set up factories there, providing employment for impoverished people relocated from areas unsuitable for living. The Standi

Hainan Free Trade Port in south China has inked 35 key investment projects, including eight foreign-funded ones, as the province is attracting investors at home and abroad with its opening up. An on-site and online signing ceremony for the projects w

Cheng Yonghua, former Chinese ambassador to Japan, has been appointed executive vice president of the China-Japan Friendship Association, a historic organization established in 1963 at then Premier Zhou Enlai’s initiative. Cheng, 66, first went to Ja

Green rice seedlings dotting swathes of barren land in Qaidam Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a refreshing sight since the land, with its high salt content, could hardly grow even grass in the past. It’s hard to imagine that the crop, which req

The author is director of the EU-China Program at the Centre International de Formation Européenne The impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the world economy is yet to be assessed. Estimations are particularly difficult because plans

Based in Chicago, Illinois, Wanxiang America, the U.S. subsidiary of Wanxiang Group, China’s largest auto parts company, has been a member of the local business community for almost three decades. From a three-person team with $20,000 in cash investm

China Report ASEAN: The development of relations between China and the Philippines has reached a new stage. What is your opinion on its current state? Huang Xilian: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have placed con

Beijing raised its public health emergency response from the third to the second level on June 16. A total of 98 hospitals and institutions in Beijing offer nucleic acid test, with a daily sample collecting capability of 400,000 Nearly 100,000 commun

At the age of 13, Zhao Yang, a resident of Xiaozhao Village in Nangong City, Hebei Province in north China, lost his arms due to electric shock. He said the accident changed his life in the blink of an eye. He had to give up schooling. “I was in desp

In 2000, when a 3-year-old Chinese Internet technology company called NetEase made its debut on the Nasdaq, the results were far from spectacular. Its stock price declined continuously and it was delisted for four months due to financial problems. Di

China has renewed its commitment to improving the quality of listed companies as the country, with the world’s second-largest equity market in value, continues to deepen market-oriented financial reforms. “Ensuring validity, transparency and legality

Lai Huigang, founder of Xiaoerjie, a fresh food store chain, thanks a recent government policy for his organization’s expansion in May despite the effects of the novel coronavirus. Xiaoerjie opened three new stores in Jiangmen, a city in Guangdong Pr

A 7-year-old girl recites Welcome Rain on a Spring Night, a poem from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in front of a thatched cottage in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China. “The good rain knows its season, when spring arrives. It brings life… Da

Electricity use, a key indicator of economic activities, shows that the Chinese economy is recovering from the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. In May, total electricity consumption rose 4.6 percent year on year, an increa

On June 10, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) released the results of the second national census on pollution sources. Compared with the first census in 2010, the results of this report are encouraging. Levels of sulfur dioxide, chemical