Beijing Review

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

With President Xi Jinping’s statement on December 3 that the goal of absolute poverty elimination has been achieved with all remaining rural poor lifted out of poverty in China, the official seal on the achievement has been put. The accomplishment la

Terraced fields in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County in Gansu Province in northwest China after snowfall on December 7. It was the period of Major Snow, the 21st of the 24 solar terms based on the traditional Chinese calendar, characterized by plumme

HNA Group and Trip.com signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on December 4 for further cooperation on air transport and Internet technology in the service of global travelers. They will boost cooperation on data sharing, big-data analysis, produ

Zhou Xiaochuan, former Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBC), the central bank, has proposed to change the way to define and measure inflation. In a recent article in a magazine affiliated with the PBC, he said the current inflation measuremen

Wang Haibian and Wang Min, two men living in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County, Hainan Province in south China, could serve as an illustration of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s famous line, “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” B

When I was young, a film made in Bollywood movie industry became famous, not so much for its content but for the title, which remains on people’s lips even now. The title, Roti, Kapda Aur Makan, sums up the three basic necessities of life—food, cloth

That’s a huge task that requires a lot of work, good investment and policy strategy as well as very strong and dedicated leadership. My colleagues who visited the areas most affected by poverty [in China] and saw the poverty alleviation efforts were

In the Moscow Declaration released at the 12th BRICS Summit in November, innovation became a keyword. BRICS has evolved from a concept to an organization and continues to develop. The members, representing emerging forces, have put forward new perspe

The author is a researcher with the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian nuclear scientist, was shot dead near Tehran on November 27. The killing has sparked outrage in the

For Hu Hongwei, an army veteran, undertaking risky tasks is a part of his work. Since retiring from the army and joining the State Grid Hubei Electric Power Co. in 2000, his work is to repair faulty ultra-high voltage power transmission lines, a dang

Before Zhou Qingwen went to a chain dessert shop recently, she was not using e-vouchers to get a discount on her purchases. At the shop, she did it for the first time when the assistant told her that if she spent more than 80 yuan ($12), she would ge

When new college graduate Zhang Kunyue moved to Shanghai in June to work there as a data analyst, she found accommodation through Phoenix Tree, popularly known as Danke, one of the largest online home rental platforms in China. Danke leases homes fro

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China’s total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen below the warning line as the country’s population development has hit a critical point. The birth rate on the Chinese mainland dropped to 10.48 per 1,000 peopl

Asatirical computer-generated (CG) image featuring an Australian soldier cutting the throat of a child in Afghanistan has created a furor since November 29, when it was posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian. Australian Prime Min