Beijing Review

The world’s largest green initiative turned 40 years this year. The national voluntary tree-planting campaign, launched in China with a government resolution in 1981, has seen volunteers plant 76 billion trees across the country since then, joined by

Shanxi, a province on the Loess Plateau in north China, has treated more than 18,000 square km of land to battle water and soil erosion over the past five years, authorities said on March 23. The province plans to treat another 366,667 hectares of la

Pilots and testing of the digital yuan are making steady progress, according to Mu Changchun, head of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People’s Bank of China (PBC), the central bank. Mu made the remarks while addressing a summit at the

Chinese director Zhou Ziyang, 38, won the award for best director at the 25th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) in the Bulgarian capital on March 21. The award was given for Zhou’s film Wuhai, which tells the story of a young co

No one could have put a simple proposition better than Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi did in early March on the mending of the India-China relationship. Bilateral ties have been uneasy following the conflict between the two armi

While the first China-U.S. senior officials’ meeting in Alaskan city Anchorage since U.S. President Joe Biden took office has been described as chilly by the Western media, to look at it objectively, the March 18-19 strategic dialogue has clarified t

Two years ago, I traveled with some foreign journalists. One of them asked whether I had any religious belief. “I am an atheist,” I said. His facial expression revealed that my reply had reinforced a preconceived opinion of his. He then asked, “It is

The massive global roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines promises to effectively rein in the pandemic around the world. However, the post-pandemic return to normalcy brings with it the possibility of inflation. With the exception of China, 2020 saw all of th

Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, is known in China to have a peerless scenery on the planet. So when Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in the tourist city on Marc

After inspecting the three classes in his kindergarten, Li Ming, head of the preschool institution in Anding, a village in Yunnan Province, southwest China, feels satisfied. The tots wanting to use the toilet were waiting patiently in a line, instead

When I was a high school student, an association of entrepreneurs teamed up with the University of Aveiro, in Aveiro, Portugal, to start courses that would give students specific skills to deal with foreign markets and negotiate with people from diff

An extraordinary year has passed, in which COVID-19 swept the world, global political and economic uncertainty abounded, and people from all walks of life faced challenges unseen in generations. Participants at this year’s China Development Forum, an

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Dorjee, a 45-year-old herder in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, northwest China, is relieved to see the pasture in the region, where he grazes his herd, is once again covered with grass as high as his knees. More than a decad