Beijing Review

President: Li Yafang Associate Editors in Chief: Li Jianguo, Ding Zhitao Assistant President: Li Zhenzhou Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editors: Zan Jifang, Liu Yunyun, Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Editorial Administrators:

It is time for the international community to introspect on the direr situation the world would have been in without China’s resolute and effective measures to contain the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Disaster always brings out what lie

Chinese people are ready to spend generously after the measures to control the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are lifted, according to a survey conducted by the consumers council of Jiangsu Province in east China. The survey collected answ

Leading digital payment platform Alipay unveiled a three-year plan on March 10 to support the digital transformation of 40 million service providers by working with 5,000 independent software vendors. “We want to build new infrastructure for a digita

Zhang Weili, China’s first and only Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) world champion, successfully defended her strawweight title at the UFC 248 in Nevada, the U.S., on March 8. She is also the first East Asian champion in UFC history. The UFC is

It’s been a tough time for China since the novel coronavirus outbreak. How do you view the ongoing fight against the virus in China? Shamshad Akhtar: China is a great nation and its outstanding economic and social achievements are well recognized glo

The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and senior partner emeritus at McKinsey & Company The novel coronavirus is dominating the 2020 global news cycle. The virus has reached more than 110 countries and regions, killed over 4,000 people

The author is a former senior lecturer in political economy and history at the University of Wales and currently general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain A part from deaths and the distress caused to those most directly affected, another p

The author is a researcher in emotion and media psychology and a guest professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law After the novel coronavirus outbreak, we have new viruses—panic as an emotional virus and the media. You need to look

The author is editor in chief of GreekReporter.com Tens of thousands of refugees and immigrants have been gathering at the Turkey-Greece border since the end of February, after Turkey announced it would not stop them from leaving the country. Turkey

The Chinese mainland has topped a trust index among major economies surveyed worldwide with its residents found to be putting increasing trust in their government. Compared with 86 points out of 100 in 2019, the barometer shows 90 points this year, w

A destitute county without a musical tradition, Zheng’an in Guizhou Province in southwest China is an unlikely home for many of the world’s top-notch guitars. However, the mountainous area with little arable land has bloomed into the largest guitar p

In 2015, a symposium held in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province in the northwest, focused on poverty alleviation in old revolutionary bases of the CPC. Another symposium held in Guiyang, Guizhou Province in the southwest, had the theme of poverty alleviation a

Xu Ting, a nurse living in Beijing, had planned a trip to Iceland with her friend in February to watch the northern lights. They booked their tickets during the Double 11 sales promotion in November 2019 and also paid a local travel agency in Iceland

The Wuchang Hospital, which was converted from a stadium in Wuhan in Hubei Province, was closed down on March 10 after seeing off its last 49 patients. It is the last of the 16 temporary hospitals in the city to close. The retirement of such hospital

When most companies are struggling to deal with the difficulties in business operation caused by the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic, NIO, an emerging Chinese carmaker specializing in intelligent electric automobiles, has just welcomed a monumenta

The author is chief researcher of Bank of China On March 9, all three major U.S. stock indexes tumbled more than 7 percent. A key market circuit breaker was triggered for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis, with $3-trillion market

China is accelerating the construction of new infrastructure, which is expected to create new drivers for economic growth, especially in sectors like new consumption, new manufacturing and new services. It will accelerate the construction of new infr

In 1977, when NASA sent its Voyager 2 spacecraft on an exploration of outer space, it carried an unusual item. There were two phonograph records on board as mementos of Earth. One of the longest tracks the records included was Liu Shui (Flowing Strea

The London Book Fair 2020, one of the publishing industry’s biggest international events of the year, was scheduled to take place at the Olympia London conference center on March 10, but due to the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-

The inclusion of the third tranche of China’s A-shares on British stock index provider FTSE Russell’s Global Equity Index Series (GEIS) will kick off on March 23 according to schedule, raising the shares’ index inclusion factor from 15 to 25 percent.