Vol.63/No.27

Beijing Review

China's National English News Weekly

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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
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A Crucial Stage
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, a provincial-level administrative region, has the largest land area in China, accounting for nearly one sixth of the country’s territory. Home to 47 ethnic groups, it had a permanent population of
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Eye In The Sky
A Long March-3B carrier rocket bearing the last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, southwest China, at 9:43 a.m. on June 23. The launch of the 55th satellite co
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Economy
The Shanghai International Energy Exchange began trading low-sulfur fuel futures from June 22 with a benchmark price of 2,368 yuan ($334.9) per ton. The exchange had conducted two drills on June 13 and 21, which included daily trading and settlement.
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Society
Students from Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, take a selfie at their graduation ceremony on June 20. Student representatives took part in the ceremony in the university’s playground with most of the graduates attending onl
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World
A police officer stands in front of the blocked-off entrance to Forbury Gardens, a public park in Berkshire where a man with a knife attacked picnickers on June 21. Counterterrorism police said three people were killed and at least three others injur
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Colin Huang, Chair and CEO of online discounter platform Pinduoduo, is China’s second richest man, according to the Forbes Real-Time Billionaire Index on June 21. Huang, with a net worth of $45.4 billion, has surpassed Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and fo
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Bearing Fruit And Flowers
Musa Axim, a 60-year-old in Payzawat County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, has formed a new habit of drinking a glass of tap water every morning since June 16, when the county for the first time got access to safe drinking wate
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Fragrant Fortune
Huocheng, a county in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China, enjoys a special distinction. It lies on the same latitude as Provence in France, with similar climate and soil. The county began planting lavender brought from Provence in 1965
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On the Same Page
The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London Unlike in previous years, because of the unique situation with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at the moment, the
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Time Running Out
The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and a senior researcher on international studies The Korean Peninsula has become restive again after thousands of propaganda leaf-lets were dropped into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D
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Rethink the Rhetoric
The author is an assistant research fellow with the China Institute of International Studies Intelligence sharing, military alliance, political loyalty, among other areas of cooperation, have tied Australia and the U.S. together, but also made Austra
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Safeguarding Prosperity
The draft law was submitted for deliberation at the 19th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) from June 18 to 20. Entrusted by the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, an official with the L
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Revamping Rural China
Despite being only 10 minutes by road from the nearest city now, Gaohuai Village, located in Deyang in Sichuan Province in southwest China, was once a poor and isolated backwater. Now it has been reborn into a place for urbanites to get together and
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Lessons With Love
When Zhang Chengxiang, a teacher from a technical college in east China, recently went to Xiliushui Hope Primary School in Guizhou Province in southwest China to be a volunteer teacher, it was her second mission in that isolated area. When she first
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Festival Therapy
China’s largest mid-year online shopping festival 618, deriving its name from its culmination on June 18, has helped businesses make a strong comeback after they suffered from waning consumption earlier this year due to the novel coronavirus epidemic
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In Top Gear
During the May Day holiday, Feng Wei, who works for an advertising agency in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China, bought a new car. He regarded it not as a luxury but as a health necessity. The Geely Icon model he bought comes with an intell
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Finding Assets In China
It has been two years since global index complier Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) included China’s A-shares on its MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The inclusion has made China’s stock market more accessible to foreign investors and Chinese a
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Green Shoots in Chinese Economy Boost Confidence for Global Recovery
Although the coronavirus-battered world economy has not yet got out of the woods, encouraging signs in the Chinese economy have raised hopes that a broad-based recovery is in the offing. Industrial rebound has been gaining momentum on the ground. The
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Numbers
($1=7 yuan) As of the end of March, China’s enterprise annuity funds totaled 1.86 trillion yuan, up 66.07 billion yuan from end of last year. China launched enterprise annuities in 2004 as a form of supplementary pension plan, under which both employ
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Music of Solidarity
Being a universal language, music has always been as a way for people to connect with one another. With this thought, two Nigerian singers recently brought their music to China. Aituaje Iruobe, widely known as Waje, released an album and Cobhams Asuq
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Blooming Peaks
Mountains surrounding Beijing have witnessed a green facelift in recent years. Lingshan Mountain, the highest peak lying west of the city, welcomed visitors this year with caragana jubata and anemone cathayensis in full blossom. Twenty km away from L
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Ancient Chinese Philosophy Still Relevant in Today’s World
Daodejing advocates that people abide by the concept of Dao, what we call objective law nowadays. Lao Tzu emphasized the harmony of the three elements—heaven, earth and human beings. In other words, people should act in accordance with the laws of th
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Killing Two Birds With One Bike
Since I have been involved in charity for over 10 years and tried losing weight by riding a bike, a few friends said they might sponsor me if I did something extreme. I’d been to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China and liked it very m

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