Beijing Review

President: Li Yafang Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate President: Yan Ying Associate Editor in Chief: Liu Yunyun Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editor: Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Editor: Wang Hairong Researcher: Lan Xin

China reopened its borders on January 8 in a final farewell to COVID-induced restrictions. The country scrapped quarantine requirements for overseas arrivals as it is no longer managing COVID-19 with measures designed for the most dangerous infectiou

Tourists enjoy a horse-drawn sleigh ride in Beiji Village of Mohe, Heilongjiang Province, on January 10. Known as “China’s North Pole,” Mohe has an annual ice and snow period of up to eight months, with the lowest temperature reaching minus 50 degree

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China will exempt small businesses with monthly sales of 100,000 yuan ($14,740) or less from value-added tax (VAT) throughout 2023, according to finance and taxation authorities. The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration also spec

Li Sun has been appointed head coach of China’s national table tennis team. Li, 59, started his sports career in 1977 and began coaching Team China in the 1990s. As a trainer, he has mentored Grand Slam winners Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and Li Xiaoxia.

Following a very challenging 2022, the world may find it difficult to be optimistic about 2023, given the risks to the economy as well as global and regional security. The trends of transformation and turbulence are both evolving continuously, and th

Modernization has long been the dream of Chinese people. At the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in October 2022, the Party laid out roadmaps for reaching the goals of largely achieving socialist modernization by 2035 and achievi

The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly issued a notice on January 5, allowing local governments to implement differentiated credit policies suited to their local circu

On December 28, 2022, Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH) received a thank you letter from the daughter of a patient they had treated four days earlier. In nearly 1,000 Chinese characters, the sender surnamed Shi gave an emotional and detailed ac

‘I’ve heard about the legend that claims a desert poplar will stand tall for another 1,000 years after it dies. But I never expected to see them come back to life with my own eyes,” Mawlan Mamat, a Uygur desert and forest ranger in Xinjiang Uygur Aut

Every time muralist Liu Zhicheng, better known as Liu Xiaobei, paints a wall in his hometown in Yongsheng County, Yunnan Province in southwest China, he captures the entire creative process on camera. The good-humored 27-year-old is often seen talkin

For Jorge Hidalgo, China has become his second home and a place where he has made his way through the worlds of diplomacy, business and academia to strengthen the country’s ties with his native Ecuador. It has been two decades since Hidalgo first set

Since China and Sri Lanka established diplomatic relations in 1957, both countries and their peoples have been understanding and supportive of one another. The COVID-19 pandemic and domestic economic crises have posed severe challenges to Sri Lanka a