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 Xi

New digital business models have budded and blossomed since the early 2000s when the Internet first began permeating every sphere of life in China. Platform companies, bringing together buyers and sellers and managing their interactions online, for o

China has selected 49 candidate areas for building national parks to better protect wildlife species and their habitats, according to a spatial layout plan for the country’s national park system made public on December 29, 2022. The 49 candidate site

Qin Gang has been appointed foreign minister. The appointment was made by the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on December 30, 2022 when he was serving as Chinese ambassador to the U.S. Born in Tianjin in March 1966, Qin began

I was teaching English at Liaoning University in Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, in 1998, my first year in the country. It was a formative experience for me and my career has been connected to China in one way or a

Western countries, joined by the Republic of Korea and Japan, voted against economic development and poverty reduction resolutions considered by the UN General Assembly in December 2022. The stance of these countries and their partners reflects the p

2022 was the first year of implementing the outcomes of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), held in November 2021 in Dakar, Senegal. The conference adopted four outcome documents, namely the Dakar Decla

China reopened its borders and removed quarantine for all inbound passengers after downgrading its COVID-19 management on January 8. International business people and overseas Chinese are not the only ones to benefit from the new policy. A large numb

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has made great strides in its fight against corruption over the past decade, but there is still a long way to go, according to a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing on December 6,

A document jointly released by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on December 19, 2022, details 20 key measures to build basic systems for data management and better utilize data resources. As the foundation f

From November 10 to 18, 2022, Chinese naval hospital ship Peace Ark conducted its 10th overseas medical mission in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. During the mission, the ship provided vital medical assistance in what was dubbed Mission Harmony-2022.

Upon hearing the news that China was to ease its COVID-19 restrictions in early December, Xie Dongfang heaved a sigh of relief. “The time has now come to reactivate my business plan,” Xie, founder of Shanghai-based scented candle brand ECOLIT, told B

As the name suggests, Shanghai-based Egg is a small cafe that serves a mostly brunch-oriented menu: avocado toast, truffled eggs, hash browns… and sometimes China’s very own hotpot. Its owner is 30-something Camden Hauge, an American born in New Jers

Since the rise of retail e-commerce, more and more Chinese consumers are having online retailers deliver their groceries and other daily necessities to their homes. As a result of this new competition, traditional supermarkets have been losing their

This New Year holiday, which lasted from December 31 to January 2, was the first holiday since China optimized its COVID-19 control measures in early December last year. As a large number of people had already recovered from COVID-19 infection, they

China’s ancient skull fossil trove got a new member after a 1-million-year-old skull was unearthed in Hubei Province on December 3, 2022. The newly discovered skull is thought to be the most intact Homo erectus skull of its age found on the Eurasian

As people’s desire to venture beyond city limits has grown since China eased its COVID-19 control policy in early December last year, which included the lifting of interregional travel restrictions, the country’s tourism market registered robust reco

As I sipped my morning coffee on December 27, 2022, in Chongqing Municipality, news broke that China would be downgrading its management of COVID-19 from the top-level Category A to the less strict Category B on January 8. Since early 2020, the count