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

The building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects is now in the final stage despite the impacts of the novel coronavirus epidemic. Across the country, most areas have already attained moderate prosperity and the few remaining impoverish

A crested ibis flies near Leicaogou Reservoir in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, on August 2. Crested ibises, with their iconic red crests and long black beaks, had been thought to be extinct in China until seven wild birds were observed in Shaanx

Hunan Province in central China has built 13,586 5G base stations since 2019, and the number is expected to hit 22,000 by the end of this year, local authorities said on August 2. In the first half of this year, the province built 10,986 5G base stat

Zhong Fangrong, a high school graduate from a small village in Hunan Province, central China, scored 676 out of 750 in the national college entrance examination, also known as the gaokao. She applied to Peking University (PKU) to major in archaeology

Recently, Zhang Junning, 31, bought a car. This was unimaginable six years ago, when his family was still living in poverty. At that time, he had just moved from Xihaigu, an impoverished mountainous region in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwes

The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and a researcher with the Pangoal Institution In his speech at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 24, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained his long-asserted “results-ori

The author is a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation The U.S. GDP shrank at an unprecedented 32.9-percent annual rate in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020, according to the advance estimate released b

Burger King China was recently in hot water in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in east China, where some of its stores were accused of using expired ingredients, according to an annual consumer rights program broadcast by China Central Television on July

In coping with the disruptions from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic and global economic slowdown, China’s leadership has emphasized the need to steer the world’s second-largest economy. It has called for quicker establishment of a n

The Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China, is a land of contrasts. Flanked by towering mountains with the arid Taklimakan Desert lying at its heart, it boasts lush greenery and a vast Euphrates poplar forest, the largest an

According to Ministry of Education statistics, 2020 will see the number of postgraduate students surpass 3 million, from 629 in 1949. Enrollment to postgraduate studies will total more than 1.1 million this year, up from 242 in 1949 and 10,700 in 197

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced a one-year delay to the region’s Legislative Council general election due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Lam made the July 31 announcement in accor