Beijing Review

China has had a very busy diplomatic agenda recently. From late March to early April, leaders from several countries, from Spain to Brazil, visited to cement the bonds. Despite rising unilateralism in certain quarters, the fact that many world leader

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China has been transparent in sharing its research results on the origins-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 with the international community, Shen Hongbing, deputy chief of the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control and Director of the Chinese

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) registered a further increase in their activities in the first quarter (Q1) of this year as the country’s economy continues its robust recovery, industrial data showed. The Small and Medium Enterprises Develo

Liu Chao-shiuan, Co-President of the Cross-Strait CEO Summit, recently led a delegation of entrepreneurs from Taiwan to meet with business counterparts and officials on the mainland. Consisting of hundreds of entrepreneurs and heads of industrial and

In late March, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez paid a two-day visit to China. French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen soon followed suit, jointly sitting down with President Xi Jinping in Beijing o

If it weren’t for the flu and pneumonia, 77-year-old Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s state visit to China would have taken place from March 26 to 31, and he would have been the first foreign head of state to be received by Chinese Pre

Beijing Review: The past decades have seen China-U.S. relations grow and change. What are the key features of different stages of the bilateral relationship? Stephen Roach: I divide the timeline of the modern relationship into three distinct parts. T

China represents an ancient civilization and is striving to become a modernized country where innovation and technology echo its current and future development. The combination of the knowledge of the past and of the capacity to progress in today’s a

Before we open the door to international voices that suggest China is predominantly using BRICS (an emerging-market bloc that groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as a tool to forcefully or selfishly promote its agenda and grand stra

The Yellow River is often dubbed China’s Mother River and the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. Originating from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it runs through nine of the country’s provinces and autonomous regions before emptying into the Bohai Sea in Sha

First brought under the limelight by some local influencers via short videos in 2021, Caoxian, a once little-known inland county in the eastern province of Shandong has since risen to fame, with some Chinese netizens even jocularly referring to it as

Qingyan, an ancient town in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, has seen more tourists in recent years with the improvement of its tourism infrastructure and services. As a frontier garrison built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the town retains much of its

In Longhua Village in Sichuan Province, photo-voltaic trees are being “planted” as part of the village’s green transformation. These tree-shaped photovoltaic power generation units, with their branches and leaves made of solar panels, provide a conti

A Chinese budget shopping app aired its first ever U.S. ad on February 12 during the Super Bowl, the U.S. National Football League’s annual championship game. Its name is Temu, which is owned by Pinduoduo, an app targeting lower-income consumers by o

A cluster of tall buildings rising straight out of the wheat fields, at first glance, Heze differs little from any of the other small cities on the North China Plain. However, the city is gaining increasing recognition in China and internationally fo

As a young journalist from Barbados, thousands of miles across the world, the opportunity to visit China was one I simply could not pass up. It’s a big country with a massive population and has such a significant influence on world affairs, and yet I