Beijing Review

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

Just some 100 km southwest of Beijing, a new economic zone called Xiongan New Area is dynamically developing. From laying the first brick, this city of the future today enters an important stage of simultaneously taking over non-capital functions fro

A five-year plan on the guidance and development of family education has been released by 11 relevant agencies, including the Ministry of Education and the All-China Women’s Federation, Xinhua News Agency reported on April 12. By 2025, the number of

Wu Dajing, a winter Olympic champion, announced in a post on social media he had donated all the money from auctioning off the mascot for Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 medalists to charity. He’d received the golden roly-poly panda Bing Dwen Dwen

The international community is in shock over the continuing war in Ukraine. Peace is an urgent need but the road ahead remains rough. China and the EU share a common interest in stopping the conflict. However, their interpretations differ on some dim

In the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, warplanes, rockets, missiles and artillery units are not the only weapons in use. An information war is proving no less fierce than the fighting taking place on the ground. The information war is being employed

Criticism of China in the U.S. mainstream media is a bit like brushing one’s teeth: It happens every day. However, unlike the daily ritual of brushing, chronic negativity about China serves no positive purpose. Though no Western news organization wil

On April 10, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council unveiled a new guideline for fast-tracking the establishment of a unified national market that is efficient, standardized, open and allows fair competition. It is

April 7, news flash: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and second in line for the presidency, said Taiwan would be added to her Asian journey destinations. Hours later, her Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill tweeted

Shanghai, the economic powerhouse of China, is now the country’s major battlefield against COVID-19. The worst flare-up nationwide since the early days of the pandemic has put the city in a hard place. As of April 13, the city had seen 14,471 confirm

Pandemic, war, climate change, hunger—all are of grave concern to humanity, and all create doubt about the current world architecture, which is seemingly based on control as opposed to collaboration, on power and individual profits as opposed to the

Nineteen years ago, Kuerban Niyaz, a Uygur local, built a primary school for the instruction of standard spoken and written Chinese in Wushi County, Aksu Prefecture. It’s the first institute of its kind in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Today, the

Cooking aromas hitting the nostrils and a cacophony of frying and chopping mixed with random chatter of those preparing the food… these are the ingredients of life in a narrow street right next to Jiangxi Cancer Hospital in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province

Rebecca Williams, 42, has always been a mimic. When she was very young, she would unconsciously imitate other people’s accents, not to make fun of them, but more out of habit. “So my accent has always been very fluid, depending on who I’m talking to,

Shall I compare thee to an April’s day? As the weather slowly warms up in April, seas of blossoming spring flowers capture the Beijing gaze, turning the capital into a tableau coming alive through pulsating colors. Statistics from the Beijing Municip

‘I’m not sure what you mean by indie,” Matteo, the Sardinian bass player of Beijing-based trashcore punk band Deprive, told this musically illiterate author. “To me, there are two main definitions. First, indie as in independent, which could encompas

In 2000, I, a Mexican native who today calls Shandong Province’s coastal city of Qingdao “home,” had the opportunity to visit China for the first time, attending the Canton Fair—aka the China Import and Export Fair, a big biannual trade show in Guang