Vol.66/No.33

Beijing Review

China's National English News Weekly

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A Sporty Spectacle!
Artists perform at the closing ceremony of the 31st International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games Summer, or the Summer Universiade, in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on August 8. The Universiade provided a stage for
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Society
The digital versions of the Moon’s full geologic map with the world’s highest resolution will be published this year, according to its researchers, Xinhua News Agency reported on August 9. The announcement came during the Guizhou Science and Technolo
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Economy
China’s total imports and exports expanded 0.4 percent year on year to 23.55 trillion yuan ($3.27 trillion) in the first seven months of the year, official data showed. Exports grew 1.5 percent year on year to 13.47 trillion yuan ($1.87 trillion), wh
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Wang Chuanfu, Chairman of BYD, China’s largest new-energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer, has predicted new-energy passenger cars will account for 70 percent of the country’s auto market by 2025. He made the prediction during a press conference held as t
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World
People jostle to obtain relief materials in a flood-affected area in the port city of Chattogram on August 8. Days of torrential rains led to flash floods inundating the city Fireworks light up the sky during the National Day Parade in celebration of
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Cross-border Connectivity
After having graduated from the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics in the southwestern province of Yunnan in 2022, Chansouk Souanmixay, a Laotian in his 20s, took the opportunity to reconnect with China last year, when he applied for an inter
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Beyond Bridges And Roads
An Indonesian coin was balanced on the windowsill of a comprehensive inspection train (CIT) during the testing of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) on June 22. The coin remained in place even as the train reached its design speed of 350 km
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Active Players
During his visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013, President Xi Jinping put forward the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt, which, together with the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road he proposed the following month in Indonesia,
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Wind-powered Cooperation
Since becoming operational in June 2021, the Zhanatas Wind Farm has been helping sustainable power development in south Kazakhstan. The wind farm is a joint project between State Power Investment Corp. Ltd., one of China’s leading power generation gr
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Summit Priorities
Among the topics on the table for the upcoming BRICS Summit in South Africa in late August, we could highlight the prominent topics related to the use of national currencies for intra-BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) trade relati
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Worsening Credit
Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States’ long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) from “AAA” to “AA+” on August 1, raising concerns among global investors about the U.S. credit. This is the second time in America’s history that a top
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Pushing Back Against Propaganda
Multipolarity is deepening while Western power fades. To defend sovereignty and development and to promote peaceful coexistence, nations of the Global Majority, a collective term for ethnic groups that are not considered to be white and constitute ap
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How the U.S. Misuses ‘Freedom of Navigation’
Since the Joe Biden administration took office in January 2021, guided-missile destroyers of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan, sailed through the Taiwan Straits 12 times in 2021 and seven times in 2022. In the first hal
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The Battle for Rare Earth
In early August, Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene paid his first visit to the United States during his tenure. In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Oyun-Erdene said he’d reached several important agreements during his meeting wit
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The U.S. Fight Against Inflation: the China Factor
Despite a recent pullback in domestic inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) on July 26 raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range between 5.25 and 5.5 percent, marking the 11th rate hike since March 2022. Since 202
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Diversity Spurs Dialogue
Was die Nationen als Nationen getan haben, haben sie für die menschliche Gesellschaft getan. That’s German for “What nations have done as nations, they have done for human society.” On May 27, 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at
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An Outpour Of Love
After days of downpours brought on by typhoon Doksuri from late July to early August, BooksChina.com (Books China), one of the country’s first domestic online book sales platforms, suffered a devastating loss. Over 4 million books were soaked and dam
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Growing The King Of Fruits
China has a large market for durians, which are characterized by their strong smell and popularly known as the “king of fruits,” but until this year, the country has relied on imports to satisfy domestic demand. According to the Huaon Industrial Rese
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The Panda Economy
The all-wooden Dengchigou Catholic Church stands at an altitude of 1,765 meters in Dengchigou, a small village in Baoxing County, Ya’an City, Sichuan Province in southwest China. This is where, in 1869, French missionary Armand David laid eyes on a d
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The Night Learners
For 25 novice acting students at Shanghai’s Qingpu Cultural Center, July 4 was not only the day for their final class but also for their first public performance. Having begun the course in April, the students attended weekly night classes that prepa
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Discovering China, Finding Yourself
My life has been a constant journey of discovery, a journey through and discovery of knowledge, experiences, different cultures, fresh tastes and new people. As a child born in a remote village in Nepal, I often wondered if there was a world beyond t
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The Right Tone
In May, the National Museum of China (NMC) launched its first original stage play, Joyful Songs in a Flourishing Age, as part of a project seeking to revitalize cultural heritage. Inspired by the Pottery Storyteller Beating a Drum, a piece in the NMC

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