Beijing Review

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

Residents of China have gotten accustomed to a cashless lifestyle in recent years. You don’t need a wallet to go shopping, traveling or dining or pay utility bills across the country, just a smartphone. And mobile payment goes beyond daily purchases:

Beijing ranked seventh on the International Exchange Centers Index 2022, according to a report released on February 8. The report was jointly compiled by the China Institute for Development Planning of Tsinghua University and Deloitte China, a provid

Nong Rong was appointed Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, China’s State Council announced on February 7. Born in Mashan in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 1967, Nong spent the majority of his career in the region, which has pla

Over the past decade, Liang Haiguang, founder of the nonprofit organization Stars Youth Development Center (STARS), and his colleagues have been on a mission to encourage literacy in young children across China’s remote rural areas. “These children u

Awhite paper issued by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) in mid-2022 estimated that China’s digital economy stood at $6.3 trillion in 2021, ranking second only to the United States’ $15-trillion market in the same

Introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative is a key feature of China’s foreign policy, consistent with Xi’s push to advance what he describes as a new era of major-country diplomacy. Substantively, the initiative aims to

Antony Blinken’s first trip to China as U.S. secretary of state should have made headlines during the first weekend of February. But a stray balloon reportedly made him postpone the highstakes diplomatic trip, casting yet another dark shadow over the

On February 1, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced it would solicit suggestions from market participants on the draft rules for the full implementation of the registration system of stock issuance it had issued that same day.

Austrian ski instructor Platon Kerau traveled to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region along with more than 100 Chinese skiers on a charter flight from Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday last month. The trip was organized by a Beijing-based ski cl

Sitting under the glaring spotlight, Gong Xinsun, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Liufang Township Committee in east China’s Jiangxi Province, waved at the camera as he launched into a sixhour-long e-commerce live-streaming marathon t

The missing of 15-year-old student Hu Xinyu since last October from a residential school in Yanshan County, Jiangxi Province, had once raised fears over kidnapping. But after the police confirmed on February 2 that he had committed suicide, leaving b

Yu Danqing hosted her first art exhibition in Beijing in late 1992, at the age of 21. It was at that event she met two expats who were so enraptured by her work, and by Chinese painting, that they asked her if she would become their teacher. Three de

Late last year, the Health Commission of Sichuan Province abolished a restriction requirement according to which only legally married parents are allowed to register their children. Household registration is a must for children to receive a national