Vol.66/No.5-6

Beijing Review

China's National English News Weekly

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President: Li Yafang Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate Editor in Chief: Liu Yunyun Associate President: Gao Dingbo Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editor: Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Editor: Wang Hairong Researcher: Lan X
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A Spending Festival
China’s outbound flight bookings more than quadrupled year on year during this year’s Spring Festival holiday in late January, with combined bookings of all outbound travel products, including flights, accommodation and activities, showing an even gr
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Celebrate Good Times
A group of men play the lusheng, a reed-pipe wind instrument, during the Pohui Festival in Antai Township of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on February 1, the 11th day of the first lunar month. Pohui is a traditio
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Society
A protection plan for Beijing’s Central Axis was released on January 28, ahead of its application to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The plan, for the period from 2022 to 2035, pinpointed the conservation area’s heritage and buffer zones, which
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Economy
China’s tax refunds, as well as tax and fee cuts and deferrals, exceeded 4.2 trillion yuan ($622.9 billion) in 2022, amid the country’s efforts to stabilize the macroeconomy, the top tax authority said on January 31. The total consists of approximate
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World
A man takes a closer look at the site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar on January 31. The death toll of the attack on a mosque on January 30 has risen to 100, with over 200 people sustaining injuries A photo taken on January 26 shows a restored piece
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PEOPLE & POINTS
The five-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Film Festival concluded on January 31 in India’s economic hub of Mumbai. Rao Xiaozhi, director of the Chinese film Home Coming, won the award for the best director. Born in Zunyi, Guizhou Province,
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A Robust Return
Lisa Cao, a 20-something office worker in Beijing, enjoyed a special Spring Festival holiday this year. She traveled to Laos during the weeklong break, which ran from January 21 to 27, after spending the festival, formally known as Chinese New Year,
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Burning For More?
fire does not destroy, it hardens,” ‘What illustrious Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote in his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1890. It was the quote that somehow sprang to this author’s mind as she gazed into the languid flames
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Festival Season For Films
The films released for this year’s Spring Festival holiday (January 21-27) made up a platter of diverse genres: a historical twist-filled comedy, a sci-fi epic, an espionage thriller set during World War II, a modern romantic comedy, and two animatio
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Do Sanctions Really Work?
Sanctions are increasingly employed by the U.S. to promote the full range of its foreign policy objectives. Yet all too often they turn out to be little more than expressions of U.S. displeasure or disapproval, proving to be blunt instruments that ar
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High on Rhetoric, Short on Deliverables
Since it was first held in 2014, the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit has struggled to meet its stated goals of fostering trade, development, security and health on the continent. Iterations of the summit have drawn considerable media attention but have sh
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Where Is Jack Ma?
‘Where is Jack Ma?” It was a question that resonated around the world when Elon Musk first raised it at a conference in September 2021. And it once again became a trending topic when many political and economic experts noted how well-known Chinese pr
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Stronger Local Support for Foreign-Funded R&D Centers
On January 18, the State Council proposed 16 new policies aimed at encouraging the development of foreign-funded research and development (R&D) centers, increasing foreign involvement in innovation-driven economic growth, and sharing opportunities br
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Effective Prescription
How can cooperation be strengthened in a fragmented world? The answer from China is to dig deep into the causes of fragmentation, promote positive-sum games, identify the possible converging areas of cooperation, and explore the mechanisms for doing
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The Next Step
Despite Chinese health officials announcing on January 30 that the current wave of COVID-19 infections, the first wave to hit the country after it adjusted its COVID-19 control policies late last year, “is coming to an end,” the country remains alert
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In the Red
China’s overall population fell by 850,000 year on year to 1.4118 billion in 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on January 17. This was the first time China registered negative population growth in 61 years. About 9.56 million ba
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The Internet of Healthcare
The number of online medical consultations has increased rapidly in China in recent days, as their usefulness during the new phase of COVID-19 management becomes increasingly apparent. According to a survey released by the National School of Developm
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Love Knows No Bounds
‘Very tall,” “a righteous man” “not your average American,” “highly adaptable” and “a communist,” Zhou Xin’s family has many colorful ways to describe her boyfriend, Dylan Austin Walker, who hails from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. To celebrate Ch
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Bright Lights, Big Laughs
On the third floor of Bitaomai Life Plaza, a shopping mall in Beijing, is a comedy club named Kangaroo Comedy. It is a place where people can catch a live stand-up comedy show, still a novelty to many Chinese, and indulge in hours of laughter. “Influ
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The Sichuan Sizzle
The 29th International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, which lit up on January 17, brightened the dark night in Zigong City, Sichuan Province in southwest China. As the city’s calling card, the lantern spectacular attracted more than 300,000 visitors duri
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Language As A Bridge, Not A Barrier
As a teacher of standard Chinese, I never imagined I’d be able to connect with 140,000 students from all over the world. But here I am, helping and teaching people from the comfort of my own home. And let me tell you, it feels both amazing and surrea

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