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SYRIA A soldier guides aid trucks crossing from the Wafidin area, northeast of Damascus, toward the Syrian oppositionheld Douma district on March 5. Some 46 truckloads of relief aid were delivered to Douma district that day JAPAN Kobe Steel Chief Executive Officer Hiroya Kawasaki bows during a press conference held in Tokyo on March 6, where he resigned after the company was implicated in a data falsification scandal GERMANY Interim leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Olaf Scholz (right), and head of the SPD Mandate and Counting Commission, Dietmar Nietan, attend a press conference in Berlin on March 4, after the party voted for a government coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservative Union SWITZERLAND On March 6, a new car is displayed on the first press day of…

The Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Li Keqiang underlines the importance of high-quality growth, reform and opening up and people-centered development. Hu Angang, Director of the Center for China Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, shared his views on these issues during an interview with Beijing Review reporter Deng Yaqing. After experiencing an extended period of rapid growth, China’s economy has sailed into a new phase in its development, one leading toward sustained prosperity. Since entering the “new normal,” the country has been undergoing a transition from high-speed to high-quality growth, from a medium-high to a high level of income, and from swift to shared prosperity, signifying that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. According to the Report on the Work of…

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Take a boat into the world of a 1,000 yearold painting and you can not only see how people at the time lived alongside the river upon which you glide, but simultaneously feel the moisture and smell the humidity in the air. Unfortunately, such an experience is restricted to the virtual reality of the future. Except that it is not. This summer, Beijing residents will get the opportunity to have just such an immersive experience at an exhibition at the Palace Museum, as will overseas audiences in the coming three years. This is the third part of a highly-interactive exhibition, which seeks to recreate one of China’s national treasures—the painting Life Along the Bian River at the Pure Brightness Festival (Qingming Shang He Tu). The other three features that complete…

Traditional Celebration Parents and children guess riddles during the Lantern Festival at a kindergarten in Jinhu County, east China’s Jiangsu Province, on March 2. The Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first lunar month, fell on March 2 this year. AI in Hospitals An AI-general practitioner system developed by a Chinese tech firm has started its “internship” at a community hospital in east China’s Anhui Province. The “AI doctor’s assistant” can listen to doctors’ interactions with patients and automatically produce e-documents for patient’s medical notes. Hu Jingyun, Director of the Shuanggang Community Health Service Center in Luyang District of Hefei, the provincial capital, said the “AI doctor’s assistant” could quickly review patient case histories and suggest prescriptions based on data from similar cases. The system was developed by Shenzhen-listed…

Guo Jianying, a National People’s Congress (NPC) deputy and Mayor of Baoding in Hebei Province, bought a bus pass before arriving in Beijing for the First Session of the 13th NPC. This bus pass is an example of the integration efforts taking place within the areas of Beijing Municipality, Tianjin Municipality and Hebei Province, or as they are known collectively the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Issued in late 2015, the pass was initially restricted on certain lines within these three areas, but since December 30, 2017, it has given passengers access to almost all bus and subway lines in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. In Tianjin alone, 12,293 cards had been sold by February 26. “The coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has brought positive and profound changes to Baoding,” Guo said during…

Founded in 1951, the Beijing Foreign Language Printing Factory (BFLPF) was initially a printing company in China’s capital. With over 1,200 employees, the state-owned company was dedicated for over half a century to printing books, magazines, newspapers and documents in several languages that told the story of the development of China. However, in 2000, the company and its property had a magic makeover. The gray factory buildings were replaced by an innovative campus with modern architecture shining from a clear glass façade. Subsequently, as new enterprises and startups moved in, BFLPF’s industrial park was completely transformed into a home for mainly technological and cultural ventures. According to BFLPF Manager Fan Dongmei, the traditional factory was running at a loss and was on the verge of bankruptcy, but fortunately, the change—which…

With today’s China, we are looking at an upand-coming, dynamic and rapidly developing country whose economic power has become a global benchmark. Cutting-edge Chinese technologies increasingly occupy the world market, Chinese consumer goods have become an integral part of the world’s shopping centers, and Chinese travelers dominate the tourism sector. What seems quite natural today was inconceivable just a generation ago. I personally encountered someone from China for the first time in the mid-1980s. It was only a few years earlier that the country, which was previously sealed off, had begun to open up cautiously to the outside world and to introduce important reforms at home. In this context, some Chinese students were allowed to travel abroad for exchange programs. The friendly young student who I met at my university…

Energy Joint Venture Two Chinese energy giants, China Shenhua Energy Co. and GD Power Development Co., have agreed to integrate their coal-fired entities and assets to form a joint venture. With a registered capital of 10 billion yuan ($1.58 billion), the joint venture will focus on power and heat generation and sales, according to a statement posted on the website of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) on March 5. GD Power Development Co. will take a 57.47-percent stake in the joint venture, while China Shenhua will hold the remaining 42.53 percent. The joint venture will have a total installed power generation capacity of 66.29 million kilowatts in operation, with another 10.86 million kilowatts under construction, according to the statement. The move marked a…

Against the backdrop of uncertainty and instability around the world, what direction will China’s social and economic development take this year? What positive influence will it have on the global economy? At this year’s Two Sessions such questions of concern to the international community are being addressed by China’s leadership. The Two Sessions is a colloquial term for the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislative body, and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top political advisory body. In the Report on the Work of the Government delivered at the First Session of the 13th NPC on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang reviewed China’s achievements over the past five years and laid out the requirements and direction of policy…

Major Work in the Past Five Years • With a commitment to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, the government has focused on developing new and better approaches to macro regulation, kept major indicators within an appropriate range, and achieved stable, positive economic performance. • With a commitment to treating supplyside structural reform as our main task, the government has focused on fostering new growth drivers to speed up economic structural upgrading. • With a commitment to innovationdriven development, and a focus on unlocking public creativity, the government has achieved a remarkable improvement in our general capacity for making innovations and for seeing that innovation delivers. • With a commitment to deepening reform across the board, the government has taken major steps to remove institutional barriers, thus…

Among all the groups in which Wang Xinqiang participates on WeChat, a popular social networking smartphone app, three are used to collect public opinion and pool suggestions put forward by members of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China’s eight non-communist parties. Wang is chairman of the RCCK Chongqing Municipal Committee. A former vice dean of the College of Physics at Chongqing University, Wang is also a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s top political advisory body that serves as an important institution of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The CPPCC consists of representatives of the CPC and non-communist parties, individuals without party affiliation, and representatives of…

When the Qinhuai Lantern Fair, China’s largest folk lantern fair, opened in Nanjing, the capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province, on February 16, the organizers’ priority was ensuring fire safety at the event that will continue until March. One such measure has been to install sensors to monitor 350 sites. In the event of a fire, these sensors can sound an alarm within 60 seconds. A sensor system used to cost more than 1 million yuan ($158,000) as it was patented by foreign companies. Then Sensoro, a 5-yearold Beijing-based company where the average age of the staff is 28, developed a pocket-size sensor priced at less than 1,000 yuan ($158) each, which functions by relaying information between sensing devices and a base station through an Internet management platform. Patents…