Left Review Online March 23, 2022
As China and the EU prepare for a scheduled summit early next month, which is expected to focus on bilateral cooperation in a wide range of areas, there have been some hostile and irrational voices that appear to be aimed at using the Russia-Ukraine conflict to undermine or...more
"Now I am also longing to fly in the sky on a snowboard just like Su Yiming and Gu Ailing. I am just 16 years old so still have a chance, right?" a Beijing high-school student surnamed Fang said, explaining his inspiration for the new direction he wants...more
China has vowed to ensure food security by holding the people's rice bowl firmly in its own hands, and to prevent rural residents who have been lifted out of absolute poverty from falling back into poverty, according to a key policy document published on Tuesday that prioritized wide-ranging...more
J-20 stealth fighter jets that entered service with an ace unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Northern Theater Command Air Force last year have now formed combat capabilities and already started to carry out combat alert duties, the unit's commander announced on Monday. Senior Colonel Li...more
The domestic section of the China-Laos railway, a signature project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, is to increase capacity amid the Spring festival travel rush that begins on Monday. The China-Laos Railway links Kunming in Southwest China's Yunnan Province with Laos' capital Vientiane, and the domestic...more
China's population has entered a zero-growth period, Chinese demographers said, as the number of newborns in the Chinese mainland dropped to 10.62 million in 2021, close to the number of deaths, but they noted China is developing from quantitative growth in the workforce to quality growth as record-high...more
China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from North America. Virologists warned of the high risk...more
The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) released data on the national economy in 2021 on Monday, with the country's gross domestic product (GDP) expanding 8.1 percent year-on-year, which was well above the government target of "above 6 percent" set at the beginning of 2021, and the...more
China on Monday posted an 8.1 percent GDP growth in 2021, defying market expectations and further cementing the world's second-largest economy's leading position in the global economy's recovery from the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, as major growth drivers, particularly exports, saw remarkable improvements in the face of mounting...more
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday delivered his first major speech of the new year at a global event at the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he issued stern warnings against acts of containment, confrontation and suppression as well as practices of hegemony and bullying, while calling on...more
Nearly two years ago on January 15, 2020, China signed what is termed "phase-one" agreement with the US in the hope of ending the 22-month-old US-initiated trade deadlock, defusing a costly trade war, giving relief to businesses and reassuring the global economy. Over the past two years, while China...more
With the protraction and resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic of the century, the difficult recovery of the global economy and the turmoil of the international situation, humanity has entered the year 2022. Facing so much uncertainty, people hope that in 2022, the pandemic will end as soon as...more
With the US attempting to ring-fence Chinese telecommunications technology, it has become more urgent than ever for China to break the blockade of West-led alliance in consolidating its role in network infrastructure. The US, Australia and Japan announced on Sunday their jointing funding of an undersea communication cable...more
A recent questionnaire survey conducted by the Global Times found that most Chinese young people, especially Generation Z born in the 1990s and 2000s, now view China as more democratic than the US and Western political systems, which are no longer considered a "role model" of democracy, while...more
National Forestry and Grassland Administration is pushing to hasten the construction of a Giant Panda National Park in a bid to better protect the endangered species. Since the establishment of Giant Panda National Park management system, wild giant panda have seen a steady increase in number and have...more