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

When reviewing global developments in 2022, the following trends have stood out: Pursuing development in a tumultuous world. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which broke out in February, still shows no signs of ending. It has plunged the West

On December 19, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly released a guiding document for the better management of the nation’s data resources. The document lays out 20 specific measures to improve systems in

Visitors take a closer look at tropical fruits at the 2022 China (Hainan) International Tropical Agricultural Products Winter Trade Fair in Haikou, Hainan Province, on December 15. Agricultural products from 1,200 companies in 18 Chinese provinces we

Yao Ming was reelected as the president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) on December 17. The 42-year-old former National Basketball Association (NBA) star, who took the helm of the CBA in February 2017, will now serve a second term. Born i

As the largest and highest-level diplomatic event between China and the Arab world since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the First China-Arab States Summit on December 9 was an epoch-making milestone. In his keynote speech, Pr

Shortly after taking office as the top leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping elaborated on the Chinese dream. “Achieving the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has been the greatest dream of the Chinese people since the advent of m

‘The Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) saw China’s in-depth participation and utmost effort to facilitate the adoption of its outcome document,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press conference in Bei

American President Joe Biden’s latest slip of the tongue was a most unfortunate one. In his speech at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum on December 14, a key part of the long-overdue Second U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit (December 13-15), Biden announced he

Before the crack of dawn, at 6 a.m., express delivery stations across Beijing gear up for another busy day in the stinging cold of winter. Liu Chao, a deliveryman with ZTO Express, one of China’s major courier companies, usually starts his workday by

The blooming of the Amorphophallus titanium, or titan arum, constitutes a grand event for a botanical garden. Originally from the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, the plant only flowers three to four times during its lifespan of nearly 4

‘Choosing to open a business in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was a sensible choice. There may not be another location on the entire globe that could provide me with such an opportunity,” said Danny Camiel Decombel, a 59-year-old Belgian businessm

The Omicron sub-variants currently prevalent in China are becoming more transmissible, but they are much milder than previous strains, with more than 98 percent of those infected showing mild symptoms or being asymptomatic. The mortality rates are mu

December is the most wonderful time of the year—to flip through the pages of young China’s “2022 lookbook” and remember the trends that made up the year in fashion. Flashing before the eyes: a barrage of fishnet—though not tights—and other gauzy fabr