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As we bid adieu to 2021 and usher in 2022, our team would like to extend a message of thanks to all Beijing Review readers for your continued support. In keeping with the longstanding tradition of compiling a year-end overview, Beijing Review in this

Newly caught fish lie on ice covering Chagan Lake in Songyuan City, Jilin Province, on December 26, 2021. For centuries, the fishermen and women living by the lake have continued the tradition of ice fishing—by drilling holes through thick ice and pl

President: Li Yafang Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate President: Yan Ying Associate Editor in Chief: Liu Yunyun Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editor: Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Executive Assistant: Li Fangfang Editors

Shortened negative lists for foreign investment were unveiled on December 27, 2021, as part of efforts to further open up the Chinese economy and promote high-quality economic development. It was the fifth consecutive year that China had revised its

Ma Xingrui, former Governor of Guangdong Province, was appointed secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on December 25, 2021. Born in 1959, Ma earned his PhD in 1988, specializing in flight dynamics at

The reality of China’s rapidly graying population has prompted the Central Government to come up with active strategies and plans to tackle the social challenges that loom. On December 9, 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China an

With legendary luxuriant black soil, a stretch of farmland in Chenjiadian Village, Jilin Province in northeast China, has been divided into smaller plots, each growing a specific soybean variety. “These are the new varieties we have developed for far

Du Haotian first visited Tsinghua University, a prestigious seat of learning in China, in the summer of 2013 to install air conditioners. At the time, he was a high school graduate with a part-time job in Beijing, awaiting his enrollment notification

Though China’s COVID-19 vaccination rate has surpassed 80 percent, those who had been vaccinated were not spared during the country’s most recent epidemic upsurges. In Shaanxi Province’s most recent outbreak, 831 cases were reported between December

It’s been six years since Geng Wenqiang hopped from his long jump career into one in skeleton racing, the sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled, plummeting head-first down a frozen track—while lying face down. His se

Globally, there are two main indexes for measuring and comparing youth development among countries and regions, and across differing levels of economic development. One is the Global Youth Development Index (YDI) developed by the Secretariat of the C

In summer 2021, veteran sprinter Su Bingtian, endearingly dubbed the “flying man” by fans, set a new Asian record at 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter dash during the Tokyo Olympics semifinals, making him the first Chinese athlete to qualify for th

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The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 are fashioning an adrenaline-induced pulsating winter apparel niche in China. Courtesy of an amplified slash advertised awareness of outdoor sports, the nation’s (budding) winter sports devotees are gearing up to