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

Common prosperity for everyone is a hallmark of Chinese modernization and has always been one of the most prominent of goals for the Communist Party of China (CPC). Major economic policies implemented after 1949, including land reform and reform and

China’s cyberspace regulator has issued a circular calling for an Internet-wide boycott of entertainers who have broken the law or transgressed social morality, reported Xinhua News Agency on November 23. There will be no room for these entertainers

China has incubated 4,762 national-level “little giant” enterprises to date, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on November 23. “Little giant” firms are small enterprises that are still in the early stage of devel

Zhang Guangjun, President of Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Technology. Zhang has long been engaged in education and research on dynamic vision measurement, presiding over the developme

The coming of age of China’s dialogue relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after three decades has borne the most successful model of cooperation in the Asia Pacific. The largely economic-driven relationship has presented

The virtual summit has come and gone and what has it changed? Virtually nothing. We had good reason to believe that more would be accomplished. Admittedly, the original meeting read-outs were relatively sparse, and new details emerged in the days tha

During a high-level symposium on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on November 19, President Xi Jinping issued a review of the initiative since its proposal in 2013 and also extended some further guidance on future endeavors. In the past eight years

The development philosophy of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of President Xi Jinping’s signature projects, has reverberated across the international community following its splendid achievements benefiting people across its participating cou

The world agrees that the Olympics mark a time when all political feuds are to be cast aside. For a long period, there was the ancient Greek legend of the Sacred Truce: When the Olympics were held, all city-states would cease warfare and compete on t

As the offspring of a Chinese immigrant, Madagascar’s Ambassador to China Jean Louis Robinson has every reason to explore his ancestral roots in China and learn about its development. His grandfather moved to Madagascar from Foshan, a city in Guangdo

The 2021 World Table Tennis Championships kicked off in the American city of Houston, Texas on November 23. Four Chinese and American paddlers teamed up into two pairs, each with a player from both countries, to compete in the mixed doubles competiti

‘My dearest son, traveling abroad for the first time in my life, I am not here to go sightseeing, nor to attend your graduation or wedding; I am here for your funeral,” Li Rong sobbed when speaking at her son’s memorial service thousands of miles awa

There is a saying that parents are their children’s first teachers. Family education concerns the growth of a child and therefore affects a country’s development and social stability. Chinese parents are known for their intense involvement in their o

Global medical researchers are wasting no time in developing drugs and vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest research results unveiled by Chinese and U.S. researchers have given a further boost to public confidence in the joint bat

When a man enters the Hanguang store in Beijing’s Xidan shopping district, or many of its equivalents, he might question a man’s right to fashion or beauty as he only has the sixth floor to find what he is looking for—compared to the three floors his

‘Hoping domestically produced animation can go back 30 years,” is a well-known saying in China’s animation industry, or guoman. Why do audiences and industry insiders alike long for works produced during that era? Can those old stories and old-fashio

Ihave been a doctoral student at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2017. My studies in China give me the opportunity to explore a China different from the one I’ve seen on TV and read about in books. What happens in t