Vol.64/No.45

Beijing Review

China's National English News Weekly

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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
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A Green Approach
On November 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a written statement to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. He offered a three-point proposal, including upholding multilateral consensus, focusing on concrete actions and accelerating the
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Boundary-breaking
President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech via video link from Beijing at the opening ceremony of the Fourth China International Import Expo on November 4. With an exhibition area covering over 366,000 square meters, this year’s CIIE, running fro
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Society
Aircraft give an aerobatic performance at a public event hosted by the China Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in Anyang, Henan Province, on October 30. China has become the first nation in the world to successfully synthesize protein from carbo
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Economy
China has filed a formal application to join the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced on November 1. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao sent the application to Damien O’Connor, Minister for Trade and Export
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Numbers
(All growth rates are y.o.y.)
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World
People watch a sound and light show in Brussels on October 28. The 10-day event called Bright Brussels, the capital’s festival of lights, opened that day People take selfies in front of the Meta plate in San Francisco on October 28. Facebook CEO Mark
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Gu Songfen, a Chinese fighter jet designer, received China’s 2020 top science and technology award for his outstanding contributions to scientific and technological innovation on November 3. Born in 1930 in Jiangsu Province, Gu graduated with a degre
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Keeping It Neutral
Yang Zhongyong, a farmer in Anji, a county known as the Kingdom of Bamboo in Zhejiang Province, would never have dared to imagine making money out of “thin” air. But this actually became a reality through the bamboo forest he had grown. At the price
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In Full Swing
In July, China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec Group), one of the world’s largest petrochemical companies, initiated China’s first million-ton carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project in an oilfield in Shandong Province. The project, which
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The Point Of No Return
With nearly 100 gardens and parklands, it is no wonder that Glasgow is known as the Dear Green Place, the perfect place to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26. Delegates from some 200 countries are gathering in the Bri
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The Critical Climate Agenda
The world set a goal in the Paris Agreement: to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of preindustrial levels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explained why this is a valid goal. If global warming were to go higher than 1.5
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Biden, China and Trade
Relations between China and the U.S. are at a low point and the Donald Trump-instigated trade war continues under President Joe Biden. Can substantial progress be made in tariff reduction? In the realm of diplomacy, much is possible; but is Washingto
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A Mad Mission
The pandemonium in coronavirus origins-tracing led by the U.S. intelligence community has culminated in a somewhat subdued ending. On October 29, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released “a declassified assessment on the origins o
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Politicized U.S. Intelligence Polluted the World
On October 29, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a declassified version of its report on the origins of the novel coronavirus. It continues to imply the Chinese Government or a Wuhan lab is hiding something and
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The EU After Merkel
The departure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from politics signals the end of an era for Germany and the EU. After 16 years, the duration of Merkel’s tenure, a void has been left. At the last meeting of the European Council she attended on Octobe
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Provocation Doomed to Fail
Tensions across the Taiwan Straits have recently escalated due to actions on the part of several U.S. politicians as well as some pro-independence parties on the island. On October 26, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his country’s “s
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Proceeding With Palpable Care
A bridge often carries the connotations of connectivity and cooperation. The logo of the Group of 20 (G20) Hangzhou Summit in 2016 featured such an overarching image, supplemented with the imprint of a traditional Chinese seal. Chinese President Xi J
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Consensus and Confidence
Investing over $30 billion in 80 projects, from clean energy to digital infrastructure. Setting up a $10-billion emergency assistance loan facility for COVID-19 control. Approving around $9 billion in loans under this program. These are a few example
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Fields of Hope
In a large stretch of saline-alkali field in Dongying, Shandong Province, crops such as beans, sorghum and quinoa wave in the breeze. The field, which used to be unsuitable for growing crops as saline-alkali is a major abiotic stress limiting plant g
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Digging Into the Past
It was a day in October 1921 that a tall foreign man appeared in the small village of Yangshao, in Henan Province of central China. This Swedish geologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, had originally been invited to China as a mining adviser in the 1910s.
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Gospel of The Clean Plate
At noon they weed with hoes; Their sweat drips on the soil. Each bowl of rice, who knows? Is the fruit of hard toils. This poem by Tang Dynasty (618-907) politician and poet Li Shen (772-846) paints a vivid picture of farmers working in their fields,
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Tracing Time
On September 24, local reports emerged of the discovery of ancient cultural relics close to Zhengyang Gate at the southern end of central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Reports centered on the discovery of a 3-meter-tall stone beast, which was unearthed
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Expo Inspires Architectural Interest
An architectural exhibition, held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in late October, showcased the history of and achievements in Chinese construction. The exhibition featured a number of landmarks, including the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Maca
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The Face of Fayum in Beijing
The moment I set eyes on one of the Fayum portraits depicting a middle-aged man on a coffin lid in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, I was hooked. His pensive gaze and striking resemblance with many Egyptian friends put me on a journey of learning more about

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