Beijing Review

The novel coronavirus outbreak reported in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province in central China, in late December has spread far wider since then. Cases have been reported in nearly two dozen countries and regions as of early February and the first

On February 1, Chinese table tennis players Chen Meng (top right) and Wang Manyu (top left) play in the women’s doubles final match at the 2020 ITTF World Tour Platinum German Open in Magdeburg. They won the gold. In the midst of the novel coronaviru

China’s logistics activity slowed in January due to the impact of the Spring Festival holiday, industry data showed on February 3. The logistics performance index for January came in at 49.9 percent, retreating from 58.6 percent in December 2019, acc

Zhong Nanshan, born in 1936, is a specialist on respiratory diseases. Heading a National Health Commission expert panel, he is conducting research on the novel coronavirus. He was the first to report that the virus can transmit between people on Janu

February 6: A total of 107 medical teams with 10,596 members have arrived in the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) hard-hit Hubei Province in central China to assist epidemic control, Yang Yunyan, Vice Governor of Hubei, says at a press conference. They

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), China has carried out close cooperation with international organizations and governments on many fronts, including data-sharing, information notification and citizen evacuation, to curb the vir

Since the beginning of globalization, in what’s now an interconnected world, the vow “for better, for worse… in sickness and in health” is no longer just for couples wishing to get married. Today, it applies to all nations, rich or poor, large or sma

When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on January 31, it was not an unprecedented measure, nor does it have any political overtone. WHO Director G

Mu Xiaolong, a 31-year-old from the Derung ethnic group, took part in an online Spring Festival gala in January. Unlike the grand gala broadcast live by China Central Television on Lunar New Year’s Eve, which was January 24 this year, this online gal

Ma Shuang, an ear and throat disease expert, has worked at the Zigong No.4 People’s Hospital in Sichuan Province in southwest China since she graduated five years ago. In these years, she has never spent the Spring Festival, the most important tradit

The village of Nanyu in Baoding City, Hebei Province in north China is only two hours’ drive from capital Beijing. Yet in 2015, the distance seemed to be over-whelming, especially in terms of income. The average annual income of the villagers was abo

Every January, Chinese central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) hold dozens of work conferences to map out plans for the new year. Employee stock ownership, mixed-ownership reform, reshuffling, innovation and reform are the buzzwords at this year’s mee

The skies over China are becoming more dynamic as the domestic air transport industry takes off and the country boosts its capacity for developing civil aircraft. In 2020, China will embrace more domestically developed civil airplane models in its ef

For a middle-aged man, accompanying his mother on a train trip for six consecutive days with no connection with the outside world is a challenge. Chinese director and actor Xu Zheng presented this bitter-sweet journey in his latest movie Lost in Russ

When I moved to Beijing’s Haidian District in August 2019 to begin my studies at Peking University, I hadn’t foreseen how my lifestyle would be so fundamentally altered by the city’s deep technological interconnection. Yet only a few months later, th