Vol.63/No.34

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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The Road to Modernization
Urbanization is an important approach to address the imbalance in regional economic development. It can accelerate industrial restructuring, realize modernization and promote social progress. The 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10) envisioned forming city
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Bumper Celebration
Villagers from Quxu County take part in a yak race to celebrate the Ongkor (Bumper Harvest) Festival in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, on August 7. The Ongkor Festival, a national intangible cultural heritage, is celebrated annual
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Society
An aerial photo of Huifeng Lake in Tangshan, a city in Hebei Province in north China, on August 9. Lawmakers voted on August 11 to adopt a decision for the Sixth Legislative Council (LegCo) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to contin
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Economy
The government is taking multiple measures to help migrant workers find jobs as regular novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention and control is coordinated with efforts for economic and social development. According to a recent guideline issue
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World
Giant panda Yang Yang, on loan to Austria by China since 2003, celebrates her 20th birthday at Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna on August 9 A researcher at work in a laboratory in Moscow on August 6. President Vladimir Putin said on August 11 that Russia had
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Zhong Nanshan, 84, a prominent infectious disease expert, has been awarded the Medal of the Republic. President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on August 11, awarding four people for their outstanding contribution to fighting the novel coronav
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Might Of Megalopolises
Cities get their characters from the characteristics of the people who live in them and cities that share the same neighborhood also have their residents sharing blood ties. The similarities they share create the possibility of coordinated developmen
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New Growth Driver
The author is a researcher with the China Center for Urban Development At a meeting on July 30, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed that investment and consumption demand should be driven throu
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Urban Frontier
The author is a professor at the Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization, Tsinghua University China’s extraordinary economic boom has gone hand-in-hand with its urbanization since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. However,
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A Blueprint for Tomorrow’s China
The author is an associate professor with the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai The third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, a collection of President Xi Jinping’s speeches, conversations, in
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Safeguarding and Stabilizing China-U.S. Relationship
“You believe deeply in your system, and we believe just as deeply in our system. It is not our common beliefs that have brought us together here, but our common interests and our common hopes.” Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi quoted these words f
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Strategic Miscalculation
The author is a researcher at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Since May, many U.S. senior officials, including President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert C. O’Brien and Attorney General William P.
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Jamboree of Gadgets
For Zheng Jinlong, Leonardo da Vinci is more of a designer of military devices than a painter. The 32-year-old has an online shop on Taobao, an e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba, and has gained fame as an expert on ancient military models. He is k
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Virtual Love
Xiao Yun, a 32-year-old office clerk in Dalian, Liaoning Province in northeast China, stayed at home due to the novel coronavirus disease in the first half of the year. But to her surprise, she was still able to go on blind dates with men chosen by h
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From Herder to Hosteler
Outside rows of double-storied brown wood houses, the elders are enjoying their tea while inside, the women are busy baking bread or making traditional handicrafts. Zhongnihao is one of the elders. These members of the Ewenki ethnic group, also known
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Record Stock
China’s foreign exchange reserves maintained growth for the fourth successive month in July, standing at $3.15 trillion, the highest level in 30 months with a month-on-month increase of 1.4 percent, figures from the State Administration of Foreign Ex
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New Growth Pattern Mulled for High-Quality Development
The Chinese Government will accelerate the establishment of a “dual circulation” development pattern that takes the domestic market as the mainstay, with domestic and foreign markets boosting each other. Since May this year, the top leadership of the
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Numbers
($1=7 yuan) (Source: National Bureau of Statistics) 510.5 billion yuan of China’s special treasury bonds for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) control had been put to use by July 29. Proceeds from the bonds funded 24,199 projects, most of which ar
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Ancient Wisdom, Modern Fun
Liu Wenhui, a 41-year-old entrepreneur, has beautiful memories of visiting hutongs, small alleys threading residences, with friends when he was a boy in his hometown Fenyang, Shanxi Province in north China. It is not only the playing and laughing whi
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Heroic Acts Remembered
For a vivid delineation of how people from all walks of life came together to fight the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the National Museum of China’s new art exhibition, Unity Is Strength: An Art Exhibition on the Fight Against COVID-19, is a
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How Do We Keep the Elderly Up With the Digital Era?
A video of an elderly person being stopped by railway staff in Dalian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, because he lacked a health code went viral online recently. But it wasn’t the first time a senior was blocked from public transport during the
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Maintaining a Multilateral Trading Mechanism
China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that a 10-member panel of international arbitrators has been selected for the World Trade Organization. They were selected by the WTO multiparty interim appeal arbitration arrangement (MPIA), which include China

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