Beijing Review

As the most important annual celebration in Chinese culture, the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year holiday, from February 10 to 17 this year, brings much more than just family reunions and traditions. It provides a significant annual boost to China

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China has released a three-year action plan for noise pollution prevention and control at civil airports, as part of its efforts to promote the green transformation of civil aviation, Xinhua News Agency reported on February 20. The plan was jointly i

China’s automobile exports jumped 47.4 percent year on year in January, industry data showed. A total of 443,000 vehicles were exported during the period, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. In breakdown, some 369,000 pass

Senior financier Zhang Wencai was appointed the World Bank (WB) Group’s managing director and chief administrative officer on February 20. According to the WB, Zhang will oversee the group’s budget, planning and strategy, as well as information and t

Ruan Xiangyan, a 59-year-old doctor in Beijing, has not sat down for a Chinese New Year reunion dinner with her family for many years. Ruan is the director of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology at Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital

Li Tengfei, a traffic police officer in Sanhe, a small city in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, is now in her 27th year of public service. But she still remembers a note her son wrote many years ago when he was little. “It read, ‘The soaked ri

On February 11, Joe Biden, President of the United States, became one of the more than 1 billion users of TikTok, the international short video platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. His account was created just one year after the White Hou

On the sidelines of the 60th Munich Security Conference, held from February 16 to 18 in the German city of Munich, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Wang urged the U.S. side to stop the unwarranted hara

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a keynote speech titled A Staunch Force for Stability in a Turbulent World during the Conversation With China session at the 60th Munich Security Conference on February 17. Wang’s key message to his European

‘Why are governments around the world increasingly concerned about relative gains and losses? How can world leaders promote an open and rules-based international order that better delivers on its promised mutual benefits—and thus grows the proverbial

At minus 30 degrees Celsius, the bitter cold is more than just a number. Expose yourself to the cold for more than 10 minutes and your skin will start tingling and your eyelashes and hair will stiffen. Since 1976, the U.S. state of Iowa has held cauc

‘I… have so many questions,” Marques Brownlee, a tech-focused American YouTuber with a following of 6 million and counting, expressed his intrigue on the social media platform X on February 16. The candid response was directed at Sam Altman, CEO of O

According to data released by the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government on February 15, the country’s GDP shrank at an annualized pace of 0.4 percent in the last three months of 2023 after having contracted by an annualized 3.3 percent, causing i

China’s new-energy vehicle (NEV) industry has taken the global lead in breaking through technological barriers. It has secured the world’s top position in production and sales for nine consecutive years, with a market share of more than 60 percent. T

Passion and effort are what led to Wang Jing becoming a CEO in her 20s. She took on the role in June 2022. Though the e-commerce company she runs has only 10 employees, it’s playing a big role in boosting the economy of the village where she was born

This Spring Festival holiday was an especially happy one for Bai Changli, an employee of a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, Shandong Province, as pandemic control measures and work had kept him from reuniting with his family during the previous three

Fu Chao, a white-collar worker in Beijing, faced quite the predicament ahead of this year’s Spring Festival, China’s biggest annual holiday and a time for family reunion. She’d planned to spend the eight-day holiday, starting from February 10, in her

Competition at China’s Spring Festival box office took an unexpected turn this year, with a record-breaking eight movies premiering during the eight-day celebration, but half withdrawing from the race midway. Despite the withdrawals, the box office s

A digital immersive exhibition centered on the Sanxingdui Site at the Meet You Museum in Beijing’s 798 Art Zone has attracted a steady stream of visitors with its interpretation of the culture of Sanxingdui, a major site of Bronze Age civilization in

As an international student pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Tianjin University, I have been living in Tianjin, a metropolis in north China, for four and a half years. During this time, I have had the privilege of participating in the Spring Festival,