Beijing Review

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

September 21 is the International Day of Peace. On that day, this unanimous United Nations resolution established in 1981 calls on people everywhere to commit to peace above all differences for 24 hours. The 2021 theme of Recovering Better for an Equ

Farmers dry peppers in Wuji, a township in Hengyang, Hunan Province, on September 22, ahead of the fourth Farmers’ Harvest Festival, which fell on September 23. The Fifth China Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo and the 10th Dunhuang To

By the end of 2020, seven Chinese banks had set up 15 branches in Africa, according to the China-Africa Economic and Trade Relationship Annual Report (2021) released on September 25. A variety of services have been offered in Africa by Chinese financ

Eric Chu won the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) election in Taiwan on September 25. He said he would strive to resume exchanges with the Chinese mainland, highlighting the importance of cross-Straits relations at a press conference inside KMT headquarters

For the first time, the Chinese military organized an international peacekeeping drill with the participation of troops from other countries, including Mongolia, Pakistan and Thailand. Codenamed Shared Destiny-2021, the drill took place at a training

Many countries today advocate a return to multilateralism. So what kind of multilateralism does the world need? It should never be selfish, nor should it ever put the national interests of one country above shared global ones. It should never be abou

With 102 evidences of U.S. interference from five aspects, Fact Sheet: U.S. Interference in Hong Kong Affairs and Support for Anti-China, Destabilizing Forces, released by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 24, is considered by experts

From the people, to the people and with the people. Qin Gang, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., highlighted these salient features of China’s whole-process democracy during an online conversation held by the Carter Center and the George H. W. Bush Foun

China will step up its support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad. President Xi Jinping made the announcement at the general debate of the 76th Session of

In the southern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a key battlefield in the fight against terrorism and extremism in China, extremist ideas once strongly influenced people’s minds, particularly prior to 2016. Deceived and manipulated by extrem

At a workshop in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, workers pour resin into models to make wind turbine blades more than 60 meters long. With their special design, they are able to catch the air currents from all directions, turning wind energy into electr

It was the fear of facing her pet dog’s death that made Wu Tong switch careers in 2015. Her dog, Little Q, named after the movie Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, was over 9 years old in 2015, an old age for a dog. Thinking of her dog’s approaching dea

In July the central authorities issued new guidelines to reduce the excessive burden of homework and after-school tutoring on students. The guidelines, also known as the “double reduction” policy, apply to all students in the compulsory education sta

Today, growing peaches has become a totally different business for Jia Yufu. The 65-year-old has been working in the industry for decades in Pinggu District, Beijing. Operating a 2,000-square-meter orchard, Jia had to manage every step in the process

Before coming to China, we all had our own ideas about China. I used to think that all Chinese were into martial arts. Also, due to the nation’s advanced technology, I used to the think all tech-related gadgets and other electronics there would be ve