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 Editor: Wang Hairong Researcher: Lan Xin

The world’s population hit 8 billion on November 15, according to the UN. Continuous population growth indicates human progress. This is best illustrated by the increase in life expectancy, which rose from 65 years in 1990 to 71 years in 2021, accord

Shanghai will build a national climate observatory by 2025, according to a report in the newspaper China Science Daily on November 23. The observatory will focus on the main meteorological problems of megacities along estuary areas under the influenc

Fixed assets investment in road and waterway transport reached nearly 2.47 trillion yuan ($345.5 billion) in the first 10 months of 2022, up 9.5 percent year on year, the Ministry of Transport said. Within this total, 2.34 trillion yuan ($327.6 billi

The 77th UN General Assembly on November 15 elected two Chinese candidates to become judges of the UN Appeals and Dispute tribunals. It’s the first time since the establishment of both bodies—in 2008 and 2009—that nominees from China have been electe

As many governments worldwide signed and committed to the Paris Agreement in 2015, there is now an overarching goal of slowing down global warming and controlling greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2, p

The path of China’s economic progress has for years been under discussion as an alternative for use by other developing countries to expedite development and pull millions out of poverty. Before going into its merits, it is first important to underst

The 2022 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting took place in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 18-19 against a backdrop of rising geopolitical rivalry. Themed Open, Connect, Balance, the event set priorities for responding t

After two decades of booming, the hi-tech sector in the United States is now going through a harsh downturn, leading to massive job cuts in a lot of tech firms. According to Crunchbase, a data provider, by mid-November, a workforce of more than 67,00

With face-to-face global exchanges few and far between following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the week spanning November 14 to 19, when Indonesia and Thailand hosted the 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit and the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Coope

A Maine Coon curled up cozily on an electric blanket next to its owner Amy Wilson, a freelance writer in the UK. Wilson turned on the blanket, a winter gift from her mother, as soon as she unpacked it on November 6. “My cat is usually quite aloof and

In the yard of the Xifeng Temple in west Beijing, there is a 35-meter-tall gingko tree with a maximum diameter of 8.5 meters. The tree, which is more than 1,000 years old, has received a round of protection in the past few months. The tree has many b

As the saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Twenty-seven-year-old Wu Kaisi often wears secondhand clothes and is always on the lookout for the next piece of discarded furniture, or other household items, ripe for the picking.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), 27 Dresses (2008), A Wedding Invitation (2013), Crazy Rich Asians (2018)… The past decades have seen their fair share of matrimonial films, some obvious and spending their reels building up to the big day, others w

Chinese writer Mo Yan was delighted on October 11, 2012, when he received the news that he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Watching on from far away in Europe, linguistics and literature professor Juan José Ciruela from the University of Grana

Jiangxi Province, located in the eastern region of China, belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate zone with a mild climate, abundant rainfall, and four distinct seasons. It ascends from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillie