Vol.65/No.29

Beijing Review

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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 Editor: Wang Hairong Researcher: Lan
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Memory With a Mission
A museum is an institution designed to hold a civilization’s most treasured possessions. China now has 6,183 registered museums, among the top in the world, of which 5,605 are free to visit, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total. In 2021,
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Society
China will relax restrictions on urban household registration in the 2021-25 period, according to a plan released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on July 12. Currently, Chinese migrants must apply to register in their destina
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On Patrol
The Haixun 06, the largest maritime patrol ship in the Taiwan Straits, docks in Pingtan, Fujian Province on July 10. The vessel, officially assigned to the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration on July 11, is the most advanced ship operated by the ad
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World
People wade through deep water following torrential rains in the southern port city of Karachi on July 11. Around 20 people have lost their lives since the most recent monsoon hit the area one week ago Vehicles on the road in Budapest on July 13. The
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Economy
China’s foreign trade in goods jumped 9.4 percent year on year to 19.8 trillion yuan ($2.94 trillion) in the first half of the year, official data showed on July 13. Exports rose 13.2 percent year on year to 11.14 trillion yuan ($1.65 trillion), whil
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Fan Haifu, physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), passed away from illness on July 8 in Beijing at the age of 88. Fan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. He graduated from P
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Museum Marks Milestone
Some 503 artifacts traveled from Italy to China and were presented to the public on July 10, as the first international exhibition hosted by the National Museum of China (NMC) against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic opened that day. The items,
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Traces Of Time
Inside a conservation laboratory, the different parts of a bronze statue, after being roughly 3,000 years apart, were brought together in June to once again form a whole body. The parts had been excavated from Sichuan Province’s Sanxingdui site, hail
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Drivers of Modernization
China’s development has been accelerating since 2012 and in the process is becoming more equitable, sustainable and secure. According to Zhao Chenxin, Vice Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the nation’s economic, scie
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Robust Cross-Border E-Commerce Cooperation
Over these recent years of rapid development, cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) has become a common form of digital international trade. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accentuated the advantages of CBEC as a trade model that features less exposure to
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True Multilateralism Will Boost Global Recovery
The Group of 20 (G20) is the premier forum for international economic cooperation established in September 1999. At the height of the international financial crisis, the G20 acted in a spirit of unity and partnership, pulled the world economy back fr
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A Post-Abe Era
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down during a campaign event in the city of Nara on July 8. He was later pronounced dead in hospital. Abe was the Japanese prime minister with the longest unbroken term in office after the end of W
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A Lesson of Virtue
Classical conceptions of the common good differ little between East and West, but modern interpretations are growing more distant. Would you rather be poor in a rich nation or rich in a poor nation? This question has inspired never-ending debate sinc
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Diplomacy With Mutual Respect
When State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Bali, Indonesia, on July 9, the highly anticipated closed-door meeting went on for five hours, compared with the brief one-hour encounter last time i
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Hard of Hearing?
‘The violence was no accident. It was [Donald] Trump’s last stand.” In a series of recent public hearings about the Capitol riots on January 6 last year, as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, former U.S. President Trump and his in
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The Consumption Cohort
The term “moonlight clan” refers to low-income earners in China who spend all of their income meeting their basic needs. In the past decade, this cohort has been growing steadily. According to China Central Television (CCTV) in 2021, 40 percent of si
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Containing a New Threat
BA.5, an Omicron variant which is better at evading the immune system, was confirmed on July 5 to have caused locally transmitted infections in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, making it the first Chinese city to detect the variant. From July 2 to
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Tradition’s Transforming Powers
Today’s young Chinese are, in fact, quite “traditional.” By day, someone could be a hiphop lover with a taste for designer streetwear strutting around Sanlitun, a popular business and fashion area in Beijing, but by night this same person may have a
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The Food Trend
After queuing for nearly an hour, Zhu Jie, a teacher in her 20s in Chongqing, tried her first cup of Sexy Tea in June. The milk tea brand based in Changsha, Hunan Province, opened its first store in Chongqing that month. “Although queuing is tiring,
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Roaming Through Rhythms
‘My dream is to bring Chinese music to the world,” Ye Yunchuan, a well-known music producer and founder of Rhymoi Music, makes no secret of his ambition. “It’s not as unrealistic as it sounds. Actually, our music has already reached more than 200 cou
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Glazed With History
On July 9, the National Museum of China, standing in the heart of Beijing, celebrated the 110th anniversary of its establishment. The museum has engaged in archaeological endeavors for more than a century. A new exhibition titled Profound Accumulatio
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The Rise (And Fall?) Of Rural Influencers
China’s vast countryside has birthed a new generation of social media influencers, which is generating revenue for and promoting the development of villages. Outdoor cooking videos featuring wild ingredients and scant equipment are a genre of their o

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