Vol.66/No.19

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 Production Director: Yao Bin Editor: Wang Hairong Researcher: Lan Xinzhen Editorial Consultants: Elsbeth
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A Circle Of Celebration
People dressed in traditional clothing dance in celebration of the Miao Sisters Festival in Taijiang County, Guizhou Province in southwest China on May 2. The festival, which falls on the 15th-17th day of the third month on the traditional Chinese ca
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AI: Problems and Promises
Will artificial intelligence (AI) replace my job? This is a question that lingers in the minds of many these days. Similar concerns surfaced a couple of years ago when said technology narrowly defeated a champion of the game Go. At present, the appli
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Society
China’s revised Law on the Protection of Wildlife, adopted by the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, in December last year, went into effect on May 1, as part of the country’s efforts to better protect wildlife and their habit
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Economy
Some 2.039 million new private enterprises were set up across China in the first quarter (Q1) of 2023, up 10.7 percent year on year, official data showed. By late March, the number of registered private enterprises had exceeded 49 million, accounting
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World
Emergency response personnel attend a flower-laying ceremony in Minsk on April 26 to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the explosion of a reactor at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 Rio de Janeiro May
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Ma Yun, main founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. better known as Jack Ma, has joined Tokyo College at University of Tokyo as a visiting professor. He began the new position on May 1. The term will end on October 31. Ma, 58, is expe
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Fad, Friend… Or Foe?
Luna Fu works as a game concept artist in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, creating the initial visual representation of games by conducting photographic research and using skills like sketching, digital painting and 3D modeling. In her spar
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The Rabbit Hole
‘As an artificial intelligence (AI) language model, my purpose is to assist and augment human capabilities rather than replace them. While I am capable of processing and generating human-like language, my abilities are still limited and guided by the
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Common Prosperity: Turning Dreams Into Reality
On September 25, 1953, when China’s intention of achieving common prosperity was first announced in the country’s largest-circulated newspaper People’s Daily, it must have seemed like an impossible dream. A census conducted earlier that year reported
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The Path Forward
The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative, aiming to boost connectivity along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes, refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and t
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In the Throes Of Protracted Conflict
The ongoing crisis in Sudan jeopardizes peace and stability in the African country. Clashes leading to killings and injuries are causing chaos for the Sudanese people and foreign nationals who live and work in the country. UN Secretary General Antóni
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Human Rights, Not As A Weapon, But For The Common Good
Rather than contributing to the common good, today’s human rights discourse has become part of the problem. Firstly, it is seriously discredited by its hypocritical, inconsistent and clearly political application, which have made it a very debased cu
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The Danger Game
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (ROK), President Yoon Suk-yeol paid a state visit to the U.S. from April 24 to 30. As a landmark event in the further stren
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Developing a New Dynamic
China’s effort to build a new development dynamic has the world wondering: Will China slow down foreign trade? Will it refuse foreign investments? Will it refrain from investing abroad? In a nutshell: Will China water down its opening up? As a corner
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A Nation on Tour
The pent-up travel demand due to COVID-19 was finally released during the May Day or International Workers’ Day holiday, a five-day break from April 29 to May 3 this year. Throngs of vacationers crisscrossed the nation, swarming both traditional and
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Growing Ties
The Third Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Ambassadors Convention, themed High-Quality Development and the Chinese Path to Modernization, took place at Tsinghua University in Beijing on April 28. Ambassadors and representatives from 20 LAC countrie
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A Stage for the Young And Strong
In less than three months, the flame for the 31st FISU Summer World University Games (Universiade) will be burning bright at its main venue, the Dongan Lake Sports Park Stadium located by the side of Dongan Lake in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Provinc
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Proficiency Opens Portals
Once he starts talking about his China experiences, Wilson Barroso Díaz from Cuba simply cannot stop. He speaks about his standard Chinese studies but also discusses his opinions on the country’s economy and social development. His mastery of the lan
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The Motorhome Experience
Yu Litang, a recreational vehicle (RV) enthusiast from Beijing, took his first trip in an RV 10 years ago and has since owned three of them. “I’ve become used to the lifestyle of having my home set up in different landscapes,” Yu said after recently
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Hefei Aims High
On April 12, China’s artificial Sun, officially known as the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), achieved a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 403 seconds, Xinhua News Agency reported that same day. In 2017, China’s
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Creative Combustion
Reacting hydrogen and oxygen produces water; this is chemistry 101. A similar chemical reaction occurs when people with different backgrounds and experiences meet—when they have mutual interests and exchange ideas, a new bond will take shape, produci
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Two Birds With One Stone
Carnival Wild Duck Lake, an immersive theater experience jointly produced by the China Puppet Art Theater and the Beijing Wild Duck Lake National Wetland Park, was launched at the Wild Duck Lake Theater on April 27. Sitting at the foot of the Badalin
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Single-Sex Sleeper Train Compartments: Yea or Nay?
A recent post on social media revealed that a female passenger was automatically designated to share a soft-sleeper compartment on an overnight train with three male passengers she did not know. As the only woman in the closed compartment, the woman

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