Beijing Review

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The period from November 17 to 22 witnessed several events, including the 12th BRICS Summit, the 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting and the 15th Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit. These important international meetings t

Visitors look at the products of a navigation company at the 11th China Satellite Navigation Conference in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China, on November 23. Absolute poverty has been ended in China before the December 2020 deadline and de

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has inaugurated a new surge arrester factory in the city of Xiamen, Fujian Province in southeast China, to meet the demands for safe and reliable energy. The factory boasts an investment of some 150 million yuan ($22.86 millio

Xue Qikun, former Vice President of Tsinghua University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is now president of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), according to the official website of the university.

Recognizing the unprecedented challenges the region’s economies face amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, APEC leaders pledged to work together to support the following priorities: • Combating and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19

The author is director of research, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation The 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting held on November 20 via video link was significant for several reasons. This yea

The author is director of the EU-China Program at the Centre International de Formation Européenne In a period of only a few days, President Xi Jinping gave speeches at four international forums, the 15th Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit, the 27th A

The author is a professor at the School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China During the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held on October 26-29, China proposed to further in

China’s first lunar probe, Chang’e-1, was launched on October 24, 2007, making China the fifth country to develop and launch a lunar probe on its own. Orbiting 200 km above Moon, it mapped 3D images of the lunar surface, analyzed the distribution of

On May 7, Lai Wenyu received an electronic card and a thank you letter from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center (CODAC), saying he had become the 1,185,092nd person to register on the platform and thus become an organ donor. “When I’m dead

When the news came on November 23 that absolute poverty had been eradicated in China with the nine last-mile impoverished counties almost tripling their income from the national poverty line, there was a sense of achievement in the country. As for me

As the impacts of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) gradually ease in China, the tide is turning for foreign trade, with production rebounding and work resumption accelerating in recent months. According to data released by the General Adminis

($1=6.6 yuan) October October October (Source: China Association of Automobile Manufacturers) Chinese firms inked service outsourcing contracts worth about 1.1 trillion yuan in the January-October period, up 9.3 percent year on year. In China, servic

‘This week we globally race past 50 million novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. I feel lucky to be in China,” Jorah Kai Wood, a 41-year-old writer from Canada living in Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, wrote in a blogpost in early N

Being invited to a traditional Chinese tea ceremony on the lunar calendar’s first day of autumn was the perfect way to celebrate a long-anticipated reunion. Chen Wei runs a jade and tea shop near Beijing’s Fragrant Hill Park. The first thing I notice