Beijing Review

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In 2016, a national strategy for innovation-driven development envisioned that by 2020, China would be a country of innovators with its own unique innovation system. In 2020, the Global Innovation Index 2020 compiled by the World Intellectual Propert

A Chinese man was discharged from hospital after an artificial heart powered by China’s aerospace technology was implanted to replace his failed organ, Xinhua News Agency reported on February 24. Called HeartCon, the medical device functions as a pum

The free trade zone (FTZ) in Heilongjiang Province, northeast China, had attracted 196 projects with a total investment of 228.2 billion yuan ($35.3 billion) as of the end of 2020, according to official statistics. Since its inauguration in August 20

Qi Fabao, who was severely injured during last year’s India-provoked border clash, received the title of hero regiment commander from China’s military authorities for defending the border. An officer and three soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army

Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, China’s total non-financial direct investment in countries along the Belt and Road routes has reached $104.72 billion, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Despite the novel coronavirus pande

The deepening cooperation between Uzbekistan and China in trade, investment, energy and transportation gives us optimism and confidence about the future of the 29-year-old bilateral relationship. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the two countries have

China became the EU’s largest trading partner in 2020, taking the spot occupied by the U.S. Though global trade was heavily impacted by COVID-19, bilateral trade maintained an uptrend. As the two sides sealed the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

The World Trade Organization (WTO), the rule-making body for the global trading system that started life on January 1, 1995, has just had its glass ceiling shattered, with the first woman climbing to the apex of its structure. To add to the significa

China’s herculean task in alleviating poverty has borne results. As UN Secretary General António Guterres said when addressing the Beijing Forum in December 2020 via video link, “China has been a leader [in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Statistics from China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBC), reveal China’s strong position as a global leader in green finance. According to the PBC data, by the end of 2020, China was number one globally in terms of green loans and secon

When 1 million doses of the inactivated coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese company Sinopharm arrived at Serbia’s Belgrade Airport on January 16, President Aleksandar Vucic was there to receive them. Vucic described the arrival as “proof of the

Much of the world may be paralyzed by COVID-19, but not fashion. Face masks, the new accessory du jour amid the pandemic, have opened up a new avenue of creativity in the fashion industry. It’s impossible to say who took the lead in transforming face

In my memory, my mother is always a middle-aged woman, but once she too was a blossoming girl,” says Jia Xiaoling, the main character of Hi, Mom, the new Chinese top-grossing film by a female director. The words moved Su Cong, a 35-year-old mother of

I am from the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq but for the last 17 years, Wuhan has been my home. That’s more than the age of my daughter, Hu Yang Abu, 8, who was born in the city in Hubei Province, central China. I came to Wuhan as a PhD student on a sc