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:

China’s battle against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now seen progress. While health workers deserve the most credit for their contributions, the community of scientists has also provided powerful support. President Xi Jinping, who ins

A worker trims strawberry plants at a modern agriculture demonstration park in Lanzhou New Area, Gansu Province in northwest China, on March 3. Lanzhou New Area is using its geographical advantage and favorable local policies to develop its vegetable

Shanghai unveiled a number of new measures on March 1 to facilitate the development of foreign-invested enterprises, as part of its efforts to further open up and spur growth, and minimize the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak. The city aims t

At a temporary hospital run by the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, pervasive use of advanced technology is the new normal. Doctors don’t write patients’ medical records here. Instead, they speak to a computer kitted with sophisticated

As the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread beyond China to all continents except Antarctica, it will inevitably impact the Asia-Pacific economy in the short term. But from the medium and long-term perspective, there is no need to be overl

Physicist Xue Qikun has won the 2020 Fritz London Memorial Prize, along with Frank Steglich from Germany and Valerii Vinokur from the U.S., the prize committee announced. Xue is the first Chinese scientist to receive the international award that reco

The author is a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation A notice issued by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in the Federal Register on February 10 revised the list of developing and l

The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, has been in the spotlight as a major battlefield for the fight against the novel coronavirus. HUST is a leading comprehensive university under the adm

The latest statistics from the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council show that by the end of February, all impoverished counties in Hebei, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hunan, Hainan and Shaanxi provinces, Chongqing Municipality and Tibet Au

For the Chinese people still confined to their homes due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, working and studying from home and visiting museums online, which were not popular till a couple of months ago, have become common practices. Although the epi

Four years ago, Dong Latthavongsa was a struggling vegetable grower in Vientiane, capital of Laos, trying to make ends meet after her divorce. Looking for a stable job, she heard that a Chinese company was building a railway line in Kasi, where she l

($1=7 yuan) (Source: National Bureau of Statistics) Leading telecom operator China Unicom expects around 330 million units of mobile phones to be sold in China this year, including 100-180 million 5G phones. The commercial use of 5G technology, appro

The novel coronavirus outbreak is unlikely to shatter China’s role in the international supply chain in an increasingly interconnected world economy as the country continues to make headway in containing the virus. Although epidemic control measures

Li Qing, a nurse at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in Guangdong Province, south China, was sent to work in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease in Hubei Province in central China, as a member of the provincial medi

In recent years we’ve grown accustomed to a familiar phenomenon. A human tragedy is followed by a groundswell of global support and sympathy online. Yet the spread of COVID-19 has seen the opposite, with a rise in anti-Chinese sentiment and racist in