Beijing Review

Should democracy necessarily be characterized by partisan politics? A look at the workings of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, sheds light on an alternative model. Nearly 3,000 deputies are attending the First Session of

More than 24 million individual pension accounts have been opened since China announced the implementation of its private pension plan to supplement the country’s old-age insurance mechanism in November last year, the China Banking and Insurance Regu

He Rong has been appointed Minister of Justice, replacing Tang Yijun, who was elected as chairperson of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, in January. He has worked within China’s judicial syst

Five years ago, when Zou Bin first spoke to the media as a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC), he was nervous. Standing in front of journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the venue for the full sessions of the NPC, China’

Ten years ago, a group of young adults arrived in Rongzhong Village of Fujian Province in southeast China to learn from the village’s development experience. They came one month after Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC

It was the year 2005. Six researchers were in a classroom of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Anhui Province, busy working toward their dreams as pioneers of quantum computing. As there was only one computer available to th

One year after Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, it remains difficult to predict the final outcome of the armed conflict. A protracted war looks probable, if not inevitable. It has become an established fact, however, that th

1. Respecting the sovereignty of all countries. Universally recognized international law, including the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, must be strictly observed. The sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all c

The world is changing. Peace and stability are no longer taken for granted. Three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented challenges do not always lead to joint action and it is here where the role of the China-European Union

Compared with the cold weather that plagued the 2019 and 2020 Munich Security Conference (MSC), it was unusually warm outside the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where the MSC 2023 was set to take place from February 17 to 19. Nevertheless, when hundreds of p

Four months after a series of explosions damaged three of the four offshore lines of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines, it remains unclear if the pipe’s operating consortia or Russia’s Gazprom, a Russian majority state-owned multinational

In his 2023 New Year Address, President Xi Jinping pointed out that “innovations are gushing out in the coastal areas, development is picking up pace in the central and western regions, the momentum of revitalization is building in the northeast, and

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) on December 6 last year said it would triple its investment at its Arizona plant in the U.S. from $12 billion planned in May 2020 to $40 billion. On the same day, U.S. President Joe Biden visited th

At a modern agricultural park on Shanghai’s Chongming Island, containers-turned-plant factories stood ready for action on February 13. This is the venue of the Third Smart Agriculture Competition, an annual precision farming contest launched by e-com

Despite Ilaf Elard, an associate professor of practice in economics at New York University Shanghai, China’s first Sino-American research university, having sifted through extensive coverage of China’s modernization efforts over the past four decades

The considerable increase in bank deposits has drawn much attention to so-called “excess savings.” According to the People’s Bank of China (PBC), the central bank, renminbi deposits registered a significant rise in 2022 over the previous year. Househ

As one Chilean proverb goes: “Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.” This popular saying largely sums up Gonzalo Matamala’s experience in China. Throughout the past 15 years, he has forged a unique bond with the country

Last fall, I spent a couple of days in Gubei Water Town, two hours away from downtown Beijing in the city’s northeastern suburbs. Located in the mountains, adjacent to the Simatai section of the Great Wall, the town is a reproduction of the typical w