Beijing Review

The Chinese economy maintained its recovery trend in July with major economic indicators posting steady growth despite domestic COVID-19 flare-ups and heatwaves. The value-added industrial output went up 3.8 percent year on year and 0.38 percent mont

China’s volleyball ace Zhang Jingyin was named both Most Valuable Player and one of the Best Outside Spikers following China’s victory over Japan in the 2022 Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Cup Final in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, on August 14 to c

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 Xin

In a bid to promote balanced long-term population development, the central authorities have introduced a raft of policies for prenatal and postnatal support on August 16, focusing on reducing the burdens on families. The supporting measures include b

The Afghanistan War and the Iraq War are the two largest wars launched by the U.S. in the Middle East and surrounding regions, bringing disaster to the lives and living conditions of the people of the two countries. Brown University’s Costs of War Pr

Full employment of college graduates is conducive not only to their personal growth but also to every country’s economic and social development. However, finding jobs for the huge number of graduates each year also places great pressure on the govern

A new academic study, Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on U.S. Military Interventions, 1776-2019, published in the respected Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR) is an eye opener, and I quote directly from its opening para

In June 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden debuted at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit, declaring “America is back at the table.” He offered an ambitious plan titled Build Back Better World (B3W), promising to help narrow the $40-trillion-plus infrastructu

Sinopec, China Life Insurance, Aluminium Corp. of China (Chalco), PetroChina and a separate Sinopec entity, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. on August 12 announced they would be applying for the voluntary delisting of their American depositary

Donald Trump, the former U.S. president, unwilling to admit defeat in the 2020 presidential election, is turning the judicial charges against him into political capital and trying to make a comeback. Whether it’s the series of hearings on the January

In his controversial book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, American author John Perkins described how he was employed by a U.S. company to talk world leaders into accepting substantial infrastructure loans. If a hit man is completely successful, h

Many Chinese tourists flocked to Yunnan Province this summer to enjoy the cooler weather and slow-paced life. The streets and lanes of Yunnan’s cities and towns have come back to life as tourism rebounds with the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data

Even before the jump ball, the basketball game, held at 10:30 p.m. on August 2 in a small village in southwest China was already in the spotlight, with the cameras of live-streamers all lined up and rolling courtside. It was the final match between t

For many people, the concept of travel has always gone hand in hand with distance. A holiday hasn’t been a holiday without a plane, train or at least a bus ticket, and new discoveries have only been sought in exotic destinations. However, the emergen

Once upon a time, not too long ago, people would collect ancient porcelain vases, out-of-print stamps, or build a wine collection. They would spend their weekends scoping out Panjiayuan, Beijing’s largest and best-known arts, crafts and antiques mark

Tourists begin arriving at the rice paddies of Xizhou Township early in the morning. The township, with beautiful natural scenery and distinctive culture of the Bai ethnic group, is a popular tourist attraction on Chinese social media platforms. Amon

A vision of almost acrobatic grace balancing on a single bamboo pole bobbing along the river: Bamboo drifting is a form of intangible cultural heritage. And Yang Liu is one of the young inheritors of this art—single bamboo drifting. Yang uses two bam

Flash floods hitting Longcaogou in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province, on August 13 killed seven people and injured eight. Local authorities later noted that several tourists, including seniors and children, camping in tents on the dry riverbed were caught o