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

The first part of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), also known as the COP15, took place in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, on October 11-15. While drawing on the kno

The China Disabled Persons’ Federation said on October 11 that 57,477 students with disabilities gained admission to colleges and universities in the 2016-20 period, up 50.11 percent from the 2011-15 period. A further 9,966 students with disabilities

China’s total imports and exports expanded 22.7 percent year on year to 28.33 trillion yuan ($4.38 trillion) in the first three quarters of 2021, official data showed on October 13. The figure marked an increase of 23.4 percent from the pre-epidemic

Liu Yongtan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was given the honorary title of Role Model of the Times on September 29 in recognition of his contributions to the development of radar technology

The Kunming Declaration adopted at the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) sends an important political message of unity, said Fernando Lugris, Ambassador of Uruguay to China, in an intervie

When Li Yuhan spotted a snow leopard leisurely sitting on a snow-covered mountain in the Sanjiangyuan area, glancing down at her like an emperor trying to decide if the unexpected guest was actually worth its valuable time, she suddenly understood wh

The rise of emerging economies like Russia, Brazil and South Africa challenged the post-Cold War unipolar world order. As China’s capacity and influence grow, many promising areas for cooperation are opening up, from trade to infrastructure, environm

It’s easy to become distracted by the many moves made by the U.S. against China. To be sure, there’s always a difference between rhetoric and reality, between ambition and actuality, and this has become ever clearer during the Donald Trump and now Jo

On October 4, Fumio Kishida replaced Yoshihide Suga as Japan’s prime minister. In his inauguration speech, delivered on October 8, Kishida vowed to stay ahead of the COVID-19 crisis, implement new capitalism and strengthen diplomatic and security gua

China’s tourism industry showed strong momentum during the National Day holiday, which lasted from October 1 to 7. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), the country’s tourism revenue reached 389 billion yuan ($60 billion) during the

Wuerhe, located 90 km from downtown Karamay City in the northern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is home to some 50,000 people from 10 ethnic groups, including Han, Mongolian and Uygur. It is widely known because of the popular Ghost Town s

On the afternoon of September 16, 18-year old Nurbigul Tohti sat quietly in the art room of No.4 Middle School of Kuqa, part of Aksu Prefecture in south Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Her eyes were fixated on the face sketch in front of her. The r

When the car crash that changed the course of her life happened in April 2011, Yang Shuting was just about to embark on her career as a nurse at a local hospital in Hunan Province. Waking up in a daze, she found herself in intensive care. Not long af

September 30 was a big day for David Ferguson. Dressed in his kilt, the 65-year-old Scotsman received the Friendship Award, the top prize given out annually by the Chinese Government to honor outstanding foreign experts, in the Great Hall of the Peop

On a hot September night in 1984, I set foot in China for the very first time. After a long wait at Beijing International Airport, I decided, out of sheer despair, to hail a taxi, even though my Chinese was very limited. On the way to the (then) Beij