Vol.66/No.35

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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Development With Independence
The first offline summit since 2020 of BRICS, a group named after the world’s five leading emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. Key agenda items discussed included closer
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A Welcome Sign!
Volunteers for the 19th Asian Games learn sign language at the Moganshan Campus of the Zhejiang University of Technology in Deqing, a county in Huzhou, one of the cohost cities of the Games, in Zhejiang Province in east China, on August 23. The Games
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Society
China will establish a new batch of national parks, including Huanghekou, Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu and Kalamayli, in a steady and orderly manner, Guan Zhiou, head of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Administration), sa
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Economy
Authorities introduced a number of preferential tax and fee policies to support the healthy development of the capital market on August 22. The preferential policies, including individual income tax and value-added tax exemptions or cuts, were jointl
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World
Srettha Thavisin meets supporters in Bangkok on August 22. Backed by the country’s populist Pheu Thai-led coalition, he was elected as the country’s new prime minister earlier that day Smoke billows from the site where a private plane crashed in the
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PEOPLE & POINTS
Isabel Crook, a Canadian educator and anthropologist who pioneered English language teaching in China, died on August 20 in Beijing at the age of 107. Crook lived and worked in China for nine decades, teaching English for more than 70 years at Beijin
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Building Bricks
Twenty-two years ago, when then Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jim O’Neill coined the term “BRIC”—an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—to highlight the growth potential of the four countries, he may not have imagined how their rise would re
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Deconstructing Western Mischaracterizations Of Brics
Western mainstream media and pundits have long derided BRICS as an awkward mishmash of different economies and cultures with little in common. For the past decade and a half, their echo chambers assured us that BRICS was very little to do about nothi
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Championing A New Multilateral World Order
In the ever-evolving and fluid geopolitical landscape, the rise of emerging markets and developing countries over the past three decades has been a transformative force in reshaping the dynamics of the international order. This rise of the Global Sou
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Brics And Global Financial Power
BRICS held its 15th heads of state and government summit in the South African city of Johannesburg from August 22 to 24. On the agenda was the alliance’s expansion, with the inclusion of new countries in the New Development Bank (NDB) and the revival
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A Precarious Pact
On August 18, Camp David, the American presidential country retreat in the state of Maryland, welcomed two dignitaries from East Asia: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Yoon Suk-yeol. U.S. President Jo
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Computing Power Drives Growth
At the China Computational Power Conference 2023, held in Yinchuan, capital city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in mid-August, Jin Zhuanglong, head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said China is in the process of impr
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Wildfire Challenges
When Chun Fan and his friends arrived in Maui, Hawaii, from the U.S. mainland on August 5, they were ready for a sun-soaked stay in tropical paradise. Over the two days that followed, they enjoyed the soft sands, cruised along picturesque coastal hig
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A Study Trip Bringing Goodwill
In the early morning of August 3, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), comprised of two lecturers and eight undergraduate and postgraduate students, touched down in Australia after a 12-hour flight from China’s capital. This b
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Catalysts of Change
Whether China’s jobless rate is soaring, especially among the nation’s youth, has become a hot topic in China and abroad today. However, Aksu Prefecture in the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has its own answer: the number of fr
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Aroma Appeal
Situated beside a heart-shaped blue lake surrounded by rocky landscape, Deep Blue, a coffeehouse in Anji, a small county in the eastern province of Zhejiang, is known as a “miniature Iceland” on Chinese social media. Many people queue for around an h
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Recovering After Flood
National Highway G109 follows the Yongding River, which runs through the mountainous areas of Mentougou District on Beijing’s western outskirts. From July 29 to August 2, Beijing was hit by a catastrophic flood, with Mentougou receiving an average pr
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Father to Future
When her father’s factory director failed to finish an order that was to be delivered the next day, Gloria Liang finally lost her cool. After a heated argument, the director threatened to resign. This startled her semi-retired father, who then decide
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In Tandem
The 2023 World Robot Conference (WRC), held in Beijing from August 16 to 22, showcased the latest technological innovations in robotics from around the world. It featured a main forum and more than 20 subforums, each with a different focus—ranging fr
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Striking a Cord
Within just three weeks this summer, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in eastern Jiangsu Province received five children with spinal injuries caused by dancing. Treating children’s spinal injuries and deformities caused by movements such as backbends and
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Break Out the Popcorn!
This summer, the performance of China’s domestic movie industry has been nothing short of exhilarating. According to Chinese entertainment live tracker Beacon, box office sales of films screened on China’s mainland this summer season (from June 1 to
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From Molepolole To The Top Of Shanghai
Late South African leader Nelson Mandela once said bravery is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. This sentiment rang true for me when I first visited Shanghai in 2012 and had the opportunity to climb the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. As a s

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