Vol.64/No.30

Beijing Review

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Ancient City, New Glory
Liu Zaiye, a freelance photographer, recently received several orders to take photos at Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, a coastal city in Fujian Province. With its buildings featuring exquisite carvings first constructed more than 1,300 years ago, the pl
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One President, One First Lady And One Great Wall
The Great Wall was at the top of my must-see list on my first trip to China as a tourist in May 2014. Over the past seven years, this wondrous engineering miracle and historical landmark has become my most frequently visited treasure on China’s long
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Fighting The Floods
Firefighters use high volume pumps to clear excess rainwater from a road in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, on July 21. Extremely heavy rainfall battered Henan on July 20, with precipitation in Zhengzhou exceeding the highest level on local rec
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A Desert Odyssey To The Pearl Of The Silk Road
Making my way slowly along the cliff face, I gazed at the ornate facades of each temple I passed on my way to the upper-tier caves. As I entered the first cave and stared up at the swirling feitian—the flying Apsaras of Buddhist art, I wondered how m
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Tunnel Vision Begone
The city of Shanghai is where the Communist Party of China (CPC) first embarked on its 100-year-long voyage. The Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the CPC in Shanghai, and the replica of the red boat, where the meeting announcin
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Priorities Above All
Leaders from 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum emphasized more effort is needed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and restart the regional economy at a virtual meeting on July 16. As some of the economies, including Indo
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Society
More than 42 million malware attacks were detected in China in 2020, said a cybersecurity report released on July 21. The United States and India are the leading sources of foreign malware attacks against China in 2020, according to the report releas
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Terracotta Warriors: Preservation And Impact
In March 1974, Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and their neighbor Wang Puzhi set out to dig a well near the Lishan Mountain in Lintong, east of Xi’an. Lintong was an area full of underwater springs and water courses, so they knew that they wouldn’t ha
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Insights From Experience
An international academic conference on The Communist Party of China (CPC) Governing the Country: Experience and Enlightenment was held in Shanghai, birthplace of the CPC, on July 20. The event was jointly organized by the International Department of
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Listing On
The 44th Session of the World Heritage Committee of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) opened in Fuzhou, capital of China’s coastal province of Fujian, on July 16, after having been postponed for a year due to the coron
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Create and Animate
What comes to mind when you think of Chinese animation? For many Chinese born in the 1980s and 1990s, animation was an after-school staple. At that time, young Chinese children did not have too many recreational options at their disposal, so watching
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The Summer Swelters With Football Fever
This summer serves up a long-awaited sports spread for Chinese football lovers. As international matches were postponed or canceled one by one due to the outbreak of COVID-19, they had no ways of releasing their passion for the game. Subsequently, th
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Life In The Lanes
Holding the title of one of the biggest cities in the world, the densely populated Shanghai certainly isn’t shy of apartments; homes in different shapes and sizes stretch far (and high) all across its iconic skyline. What makes Shanghai unique to me,
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Dispelling Myths About China-DPRK Relationship
July 11 this year marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Between China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Leaders of the two countries exchanged messages of congrat
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Pudong New Area: The Pioneer
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council on July 15 jointly released a guideline to uphold high-level reform and opening up in Pudong New Area in Shanghai, proposing to turn Pudong into an attractive district boastin
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On an Upward And Upbeat Course
With major economic indicators further improving from the low base caused by COVID-19 last year, China’s GDP expanded 12.7 percent year on year in the first half (H1) of this year to over 53 trillion yuan ($8.18 trillion). The economy continued to ap
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Reviving Tradition
On the night of June 15, the Sanxingdui Museum live-streamed a visit to the museum and many in the audience called for the museum to launch “blind boxes” that contain replica artifacts that need to be repaired. Unexpectedly, an official of the museum
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Heritage Protection
The 44th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is currently underway in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this is the first time for UNESCO to review World Heritage applications online. A series of operational norms for
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PEOPLE & POINTS
The Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) announced late on July 17 that it has selected China’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist in taekwondo, Zhao Shuai, as one of the two national flag-bearers for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Summer Ga
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Riding The Drum Waves
I have been living in Xiamen for more than six years, but every time I visit Kulangsu, it feels special. When I first visited the island, it felt like stepping back in time, right into an era when people were closer to one another. Casually strolling
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Economy
China’s fiscal revenue saw a year-on-year increase of 21.8 percent in the first six months of the year to exceed 11.7 trillion yuan ($1.8 trillion), official data showed on July 20. It rose 8.6 percent from the corresponding pre-pandemic level in 201
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Xanadu: The Pleasure Dome
The actual site of Xanadu can be found a hop, a skip, a train ride or a 5.5-hour-long northbound car journey from Beijing, in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Xanadu was the first capital of Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynast
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