Beijing Review

Despite daunting challenges in the second quarter, the Chinese economy registered growth and expanded 2.5 percent year on year in the first half of this year, a testament to its resilience amid headwinds. Given complex developments on the world stage

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Chinese firms signed service outsourcing contracts worth 987.5 billion yuan ($146.1 billion) in the first half of the year, up 12.3 percent from the same period of 2021, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed on July 20. The executed contract valu

Chinese authorities have issued a plan for preserving and using cultural relics along the Yellow River, pledging to establish a database of such resources along the mother river of the Chinese nation by 2025, the National Cultural Heritage Administra

Wang Jia’nan stunned onlookers as he grabbed China’s first ever long jump gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, the U.S., on July 16. Wang rose to victory in his sixth and final attempt with a season-best performance of 8

The term butterfly effect famously has its origins in the idea that the flap of a butterfly’s wing in Brazil can set off a chain of events that leads to the formation of a tornado in Texas, the U.S. It is used to describe how small, seemingly inconse

The Middle East appears low on the United States’ list of priorities recently, with President Joe Biden and his administration having neglected the region for over a year since they took office in early 2021. Finally noticing the weeds that have begu

Recently, Ju Li, a novelist based in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, launched his newest book Xingfu Shenghuo (Better Off). In his work, which covers the anti-poverty campaign in Xinjiang, Ju delves into the causes of poverty, how to balance the re

Japan has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. There are only three guns for every 1,000 Japanese citizens. Yet during a campaign event in Nara on July 8, a man wielding two metal barrels strapped together with electrical tape walked up within a c

In just one single day, China’s “Big Three” state-owned airlines ordered 292 A320neo passenger jets from European multinational aerospace corporation Airbus, with a total value of $37.257 billion. Airbus’s longstanding rival American Boeing Company w

Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule recently launched his new book Common Good Constitutionalism. In last week’s edition of Beijing Review, Vermeule and John Pang, Malaysian senior fellow at Bard College in New York, described the shared cla

The world is undergoing dramatic changes. Prosperity and peace are no longer taken for granted, and prospects for the future tend to look grim. Young people across the globe have to pay a high price for crises they are not responsible for. The situat

Since it started trading on July 16, 2021, China’s carbon market has been operating efficiently, with total trading volume in the past year hitting 194 million tons and turnover totaling 8.49 billion yuan ($1.27 billion). The transaction price has be

As early as more than 1,200 years ago, farmers in Qingtian, a county in Zhejiang Province, began to raise fish in their paddy fields, forming a rice-fish agricultural system. In this system, the rice provides shelter and organic food for the fish whi

Xia Min is excited to see on the news that an occupation called parenting instructor might soon gain official recognition from China’s human resources authority. As a college student majoring in education, she first became familiar with the professio

Xiaoxiangyu, a well-known Chinese Yuju Opera actress, believes that her most important job is to popularize arts, including operas—a gem of Chinese traditional culture, especially among the youth. The 57-year-old was born into a family of Yuju Opera,

In poetry, silence is essential. How do you incorporate this in Chinese literature? If I have learned anything, it’s that silence occurs when there is a very faint sound. That little sound seemingly coming out of nowhere is something the Chinese have

The Forbidden City, constructed over 600 years ago, served as the imperial palace of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Its wooden-framed buildings, erected without nails or glue, have existed for hundreds of years and weathered sev

The rise of Chinese beauty (C-beauty) brands has surprised foreign companies, which have long dominated China’s cosmetic market. In only a few short years, Estée Lauder, P&G, Beiersdorf, and other large multinationals have lost significant market sha