Innholdsfortegnelse for Vol.64/No.48 i Beijing Review

Common prosperity for everyone is a hallmark of Chinese modernization and has always been one of the most prominent of goals for the Communist Party of China (CPC). Major economic policies implemented after 1949, including land reform and reform and opening up, are all serving a shared, thriving end. Allowing for some people and regions to become rich first and consequently help others get on their feet, the strategy of reform and opening up is ultimately to achieve prosperity for all. The CPC Central Committee today marks achieving prosperity for all as an imperative task on the journey toward national modernization. The concept of common prosperity requires powerful economic foundations, high social efficiency and a fair distribution of social means. Development, sharing and sustainability are key elements: Development is the…

The virtual summit has come and gone and what has it changed? Virtually nothing. We had good reason to believe that more would be accomplished. Admittedly, the original meeting read-outs were relatively sparse, and new details emerged in the days that followed, indicating that more was said and done than either side initially conveyed. But the key questions facing us now are: Why did we expect more; why didn’t we get it; and what does all of this mean for China-U.S. relations going forward? What did we expect? Many experts believed the meeting was taking place because there would be a significant announcement, one that would finally signal a reversal of the U.S.-instigated trade war. Such an announcement seemed imminent for a number of reasons. First, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine…

The world agrees that the Olympics mark a time when all political feuds are to be cast aside. For a long period, there was the ancient Greek legend of the Sacred Truce: When the Olympics were held, all city-states would cease warfare and compete on the athletic field united by the gracious spirit of sportsmanship. Yet more and more historians are telling us that the ancient Olympic Games were in fact not wholly exempt from all political infiltration and the arena would soon become a stage for confrontation, negotiation and city-state alignment. As if history were repeating itself, the supposed purity of the modern Olympics has been steadily eroded by dogmatic dynamisms. From Nazi Germany’s use of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games as a propaganda tool for their ideology to…

When a man enters the Hanguang store in Beijing’s Xidan shopping district, or many of its equivalents, he might question a man’s right to fashion or beauty as he only has the sixth floor to find what he is looking for—compared to the three floors his female counterparts get to enjoy. “Merchants should improve the supply of male products to cater to new demands,” Cui Lili, Director of the Institute of E-Commerce with the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, told Beijing Review. The market for male consumers has long gone under the radar, but the growth spurt of a new male generation, born after 1990, has now propelled wholly different consumption characteristics. Ke Jingwen, a young lawyer based in Beijing, told Beijing Review, “The concept of ‘shopping’ does not…

Ihave been a doctoral student at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2017. My studies in China give me the opportunity to explore a China different from the one I’ve seen on TV and read about in books. What happens in the university and the larger society has always been interesting to me. As I learned that this year marked the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, it reminded me that I had been here for several years, and inspired me to share my own experiences. How should I describe the invaluable experiences China has brought me? This question got me thinking. As Confucius once said, wherever you go, you’ve got to go with all your heart, and the more a man…

Regulating Entertainment China’s cyberspace regulator has issued a circular calling for an Internet-wide boycott of entertainers who have broken the law or transgressed social morality, reported Xinhua News Agency on November 23. There will be no room for these entertainers to seek a comeback by circumventing restrictions, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission said in the circular. Celebrity-related content promoting vulgar information or containing fake online reviews, unproven stories about entertainers or irrational acts of idol worship is prohibited on the Internet, the office said. Content involving entertainers endorsing products, services, brands or for-profit events can only appear as clearly-marked advertisements on online platforms, the office said. New Airport A new civil airport in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, opened its gates to passengers on November 27. The new airport…

DEPUTY MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY APPOINTED Zhang Guangjun, President of Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Technology. Zhang has long been engaged in education and research on dynamic vision measurement, presiding over the development of small-scale high-precision celestial sensor spaceborne products, aviation equipment, and flight performance dynamic test stations. In 1982, Zhang enrolled in the Department of Precision Instrument Engineering at Tianjin University and graduated in 1991 with a Ph.D. After teaching at Beihang University in Beijing, he started serving Southeast University as president in 2015. In 2013, Zhang was nominated and became the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering at the age of 48, making him one of the youngest academicians in history to receive the honor. In 2016, he…

During a high-level symposium on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on November 19, President Xi Jinping issued a review of the initiative since its proposal in 2013 and also extended some further guidance on future endeavors. In the past eight years, countries along the BRI traversing Asia, Africa and Europe have benefited a lot from it. Particularly during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, relevant projects helped prop up regional economic growth as well as the world economy by large. Comparatively, Latin American and the Caribbean countries (LACs) have achieved far less than those immersed in the BRI collaborative network. According to customs data, in 2020, imports and exports between China and BRI partner countries exceeded $1.3 trillion, with ASEAN and the EU standing out in terms of economic…

‘Hoping domestically produced animation can go back 30 years,” is a well-known saying in China’s animation industry, or guoman. Why do audiences and industry insiders alike long for works produced during that era? Can those old stories and old-fashioned elements still satisfy an increasingly discerning generation of viewers? The return of a cartoon created 38 years ago provides answers to these questions. On November 5, the 4K restoration of the classic Chinese animated film The Legend of Sealed Book made its debut in theaters. Widely regarded as one of the best animated films in Chinese history, it is hailed for its artistry, narrative, imagination and profound meaning. The plot follows the story of a young boy who, after hatching from a swan’s egg, is given a sealed book by an…

The coming of age of China’s dialogue relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after three decades has borne the most successful model of cooperation in the Asia Pacific. The largely economic-driven relationship has presented the world with a stable, resilient and symbiotic prototype of collaboration, albeit not without the occasional unyielding litmus test of mutual trust stemming from external maneuvers. Good neighborliness has been the reigning order across the region over the past 30 years. The disputes and crises arising from time to time have thus far been handled with an approach of maximum maturity and mutual respect, substantiated by bilateral negotiations. Against the backdrop of increased meddling in local disputes on the part of the U.S., it has never been an easy feat for the regional…

The development philosophy of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of President Xi Jinping’s signature projects, has reverberated across the international community following its splendid achievements benefiting people across its participating countries. Over the past eight years, regions across China have opened wider to the world through the initiative, and win-win cooperation has been achieved between China and participating countries, Xi said at a symposium on the initiative on November 19. Xi also warned of the increasingly complex international environment for the development of the initiative, enumerating factors such as the fierce competition caused by a new round of sci-tech revolution and industrial transformation, as well as the impacts on human community made by climate change, COVID-19 and other global challenges. From 2013 to 2020, China’s trade with its…

The 2021 World Table Tennis Championships kicked off in the American city of Houston, Texas on November 23. Four Chinese and American paddlers teamed up into two pairs, each with a player from both countries, to compete in the mixed doubles competition and mark the 50th anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy. They claimed straight victories on the first day of the championships. Chinese player Lin Gaoyuan partnered with U.S. player Lily Zhang, while Chinese player Wang Manyu paired up with U.S. player Kanak Jha. “I hope both Chinese and American fans will cheer us on,” Lin, a 26-year-old Chinese player who ranks fifth in the Table Tennis World Rankings for men’s singles, said before the event. “It’s not only the first cooperation between players from China and the U.S., but also…

Global medical researchers are wasting no time in developing drugs and vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest research results unveiled by Chinese and U.S. researchers have given a further boost to public confidence in the joint battle against the virus. Zhang Linqi, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Medicine, told the World Health Forum on November 20 that his team had jointly developed a cocktail therapy of monoclonal antibodies BRII-196 and BRII-198 that shows an efficacy rate of 78 percent in cutting hospitalizations and deaths among high-risk groups in late-stage clinical trials. The therapy is undergoing phase-III clinical trials in seven countries, including the United States, Brazil and the Philippines. The inaugural forum, held online from November 20 to 21, was sponsored by Tsinghua University and…