Beijing Review

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 Editors: Wang Hairong, Zhang Shasha, Lu Yan Researcher: Lan Xinzhen Editori

Chinese travelers made 135 million domestic trips during the New Year holiday from December 30, 2023 to January 1, statistics from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed. According to the ministry, this is 155.3 percent higher than the same perio

Let’s zoom in on Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China: It covers an area of 1.66 million square km, about one sixth of China’s total land area. With a population of more than 25.8 million, the region is home to all 56 of China’s ethnic

A revised Company Law was adopted at the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, on December 29, 2023. It will take effect on July 1. The revision strengthens the responsibility of sh

Senior official Sun Yeli has been appointed minister of culture and tourism. The appointment was made at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, on December 29, 2023. While the NPC is not

Human rights, encompassing the right to life, liberty, security, work, education and many other things, represent a step forward in the progress of human development. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, declared during the French

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo made a high-profile trip to China last August. There, she talked up the “enormous” Chinese market and the incredible “appetite among U.S. businesses to continue to do business” there. While no significant deal

The Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs in Beijing on December 27-28, 2023, put in place plans for China’s diplomatic undertakings for 2024 and beyond. The conference called for an increasingly just international system. An officia

Bahram Rahimjan, a Uygur student of art, dreams big. With 17 months to go before sitting the gaokao, China’s national college entrance examination, he said his dream school is the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, more than 3,000 k

Li Quan, a 3-year-old boy, lives in Shiying Village of Dayin Town in Bijie, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Every week Li’s home welcomes a special guest—a parenting coach, who encourages and guides his mother or grandmother to play, talk, read a

In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, a city known for its tech innovation, residents have recently adopted helicopters as “air taxis” alongside buses, cabs and the subway. On board these air taxis, passengers are treated to panoramic views of the city’s

The seat next to a window with bright sunlight is Li Zhen’s regular place in a paid study room in Beijing. The white desk has a table lamp, an electrical outlet and a bookshelf. In this small world, she was preparing for the most recent national post

Emerging from a festive wedding ceremony, a dance colloquially known as Kemusan or Subject Three has achieved a meteoric rise to fame across digital platforms in recent weeks. In the realm of social media, where trends emerge and vanish like fleeting

Lu Ruitong’s schedule was a tight one on December 17, 2023. She had set five alarms between 2:40 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to make sure she would be able to obtain a ticket—not for a pop concert, but for a trendy Chinese opera. “I’d never been so nervous ab

Originally an item found only in The King’s Avatar, a novel and anime TV series about a fallen esports player who becomes the manager of an Internet café and returns to online glory, the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, the signature silver weapon of t

When people buy a new piece of clothing, how often do they think about how and where it was made? We often fail to see the direct connection between familiar things and industries. Most of us do not think about where water and electricity come from b