Thriving on Tradition
Supportive policies and generational skills change lives in remote villages of Xizang.
CHINA TODAY ECONOMY WATCH China & The World Culture Economy Feb 6, 2025
Solving the Economic Conundrum
The government aims not to merely react to market conditions, but to actively intervene and lead in areas where market forces alone may not serve the country’s long-term strategic interests.
BEIJING REVIEW ECONOMY WATCH China & The World Economy Oct 23, 2024
Deciphered: Whole-Process People’s Democracy
China’s concept of democracy presents a stark contrast to familiar Western models. Instead of dismissing or fearing this different approach, engaging with and seeking to understand it can serve as a worthwhile reflection on Western systems and assumptions.
BEIJING REVIEW China & The World Politics Culture Oct 21, 2024
The Interplay of Development and Governance in China’s Modernization Strategy
Unleashing and developing productive forces, and providing governance capabilities that match the modern state, remain the two threads of reform.
BEIJING REVIEW ECONOMY WATCH Politics Economy Jul 22, 2024A Future Beyond Imagination
The renewal and cultural revival of its two mother rivers has made Shanghai more beautiful, and now, it must acquire new industrial muscle as well.
CHINA TODAY ECONOMY WATCH China & The World Culture Economy Environment Jun 24, 2024
Open to Chinese Democracy
With the benevolent state in control, individuals enjoy the freedom to live their lives, the state being there to support them.
CHINA TODAY China & The World Politics Culture Mar 1, 2024
Details Show China’s Remarkable Progress in Human Rights
In China’s human rights ideals, governments are always encouraged to do their part of governance to create larger free space for individuals.
contributors Politics Nov 30, 2023
Boris Johnson’s Downfall and a Britain in Crisis
He leaves amidst an economy that is in a state of contraction, faces skyrocketing inflation, shrinking living standards, growing industrial unrest, pushes for separatism in Scotland, and a pandemic that has left over 181,000 people dead.
CHINA.ORG.CN Politics Jul 18, 2022
Greater Rights, Better Protection
The Chinese government and people understand that while extracting positive results from foreign political cultures is viable, the country must not forgo its own political system.
BEIJING REVIEW China & The World Politics Jun 7, 2022
Can China Eliminate Its Poverty?
While many in the media have rightly concerned themselves with reporting China’s recent moves to end the one-child policy, there are other aspects of the recently-released 13th Five-Year Plan worthy of close attention. One noticeable inclusion is the ongoing pledge to end poverty in China. According to a communique release from the Central Committee of the CPC that outlines the as-yet published plan, China pledges to lift 12 million people out of poverty every year from 2016 to 2020. But who exactly constitutes China’s impoverished? The current standard to gauge the country’s poverty line is any who earn an annual income of 2,300 ($376) or less, the measure set in 2011 by the central government. As of the end of 2014, China had 70.2 million people living below the poverty line. In other words, these people can barely afford a Big Mac hamburger with their income per day. The goal of lifting 12 million people out of poverty each year, a number that exceeds the entire population of New York City (8.49 million in 2014), means that 1 million people will be uplifted each month, equivalent to the population of Dallas. Is the promise too good to be true? From 2011 to 2014, China lifted 43 million, 23 million, 16 million, and 12 million people respectively out of poverty each […]
China & The World Nov 10, 2015