A Turning Point

Beijing Review: Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Sino-Sri Lankan diplomatic relations. What activities will be held to celebrate this event and how are preparations going? Nihal Rodrigo: The most important event we will have is the visit of the presi- dent of Sri Lanka to China. We hope that he will be here sometime in February because February 7 is the date on which we established diplomatic relations. He will have a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao …     

Speech at the Meeting in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Premier Zhou Enlai

In this exuberant and enchant-ing spring near the end of thiscentury, we are gathering here tocommemorate the centenary of thebirth of late Premier Zhou Enlai.Like the people all over China,     

LETTERS

Fighting climate change is no doubt one of the great challenges of our time.While governments must play a role in combating this phenomenon, every person on the planet can help in their own way. Currently, the international community issquabbling over quotas, goals and funds in one meeting after another, and this is actually lowering people’s expectations that effective, timely policy can be drafted. But thisdoesn’t mean that we have to sit here watching the earth being polluted and our climatebeing irreversibly changed. Small deedsfrom individuals can add up to make big dif-     

Speech by New Zealand Ambassador to China Tony Browne (Excerpts)

We are here today in the Great Hall of the People to honour the memory of a very distinguished New Zealander.It was in this building that milestones in Rewi's life were marked——his 80th birthday when Deng Xiaoping,who had had dealings with Rewi dating back some forty years,hosted the party.And it was here that his memory was honoured on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.     

Beijing:The Long Joruney to 2008

WE are a New Zealand family that has traveled across the Pacific Ocean to Hubei Province in the very heart of China. Our desire is to encourage and assist young students in Zhongxiang city. In doing our best to help China, we have also gained from it invaluable experience that we will always treasure. We now feel ourselves to be true friends of this wonderful nation. It is in this spirit that I offer the following suggestions.My students are keenly awaiting Beijing 2008, the Chinese dream. There are great expectations of China, from its own people and leaders as well as from the rest of the world, that it make the most of this opportunity.     

MOVING MOUNT China and the United States discuss bilateral relations and golbal issues during the first Strategic and Economic Dialogue

Yes, we can was the mantra of the campaign that made Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States this year. Chinese State Councilor Dai     

Let Basic Medical Insurance Reach Every Citizen——A showcase city in east China

On July 24,2007,Premier Wen Jiabao announced at a meeting in Beijing that China is working hard to build a comprehensive, government-financed system of medical insurance that covers all citizens in cities.What does this mean for the average Chinese?What is being done to build this projected system? We hope that the report printed here may answer these questions.     

Made-in-China Regains Face

As the grand celebration of Christmas Day approaches,people all over the world once again get caught up in the festive atmosphere that embraces the traditional spending spree.And being a time for children and gift giving,it's almost a given that most of us will be buying a toy at this holiday season.The chances that the toy chosen will carry a"Made-in-China"label are high as more than 80 percent of the world's toys are now made here.     

Is the 21st Century Still the ‘American Century'?

正The Chinese version of Harvard professor Joseph S.Nye's 2015 book Is the American Century Over?was released here in China earlier this year.In a book review written for Beijing Review,Yang Chengxu,former President of the China Institute of International Studies,says that he hopes this book,which reflects the author's largely optimistic attitude toward the prospects for China-U.S.relations,will be able     

Speech by CPAFFC Vice President Li Jianping (Excerpts)

Today,we are holding this grand meeting here to com-memorate the 110th anniversary of birth,80th anniversary of ar-rival in China and 20th anniver-sary of passing of Rewi Alley,our friend from New Zealand,a renowned writer,poet,educator and social activist.     

Tackling Climate Change

<正>Representatives from nearly 200 countries and regions have gathered in Durban,South Africa,for the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.The meeting is the follow-up conference to tacklin     

Confronting Climate Change

<正>All eyes are on Paris this month to see if a post-2020 legaly binding and universal agreement can be reached to confront climate change and its disastrous effects.As the international climate change conference began on November 30,approximately 150 world leaders met to discuss solutions with which societies treat the environment.Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony in which he advocated     

A Climate Of Change

正For authorities in Henan Province, central China, known as the "Granary of the Central Plains," the key priority is to resume work and normal life after rainstorm-triggered floods ravaged the province.     

Solutions for Climate Change

正One of China's two major power grid operators, China Southern Power Grid(CSG) has predicted that by 2025, the annual power consumption of the GuangdongHong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will reach700 billion kWh, with a maximum power load that will reach 120 million kw. The prediction was made in a report released last November. Responsible for supplying power to the Greater Bay Area, the CSG is tasked with the goal of meeting the region's increasing power demands as China increases its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. How to balance the two has become a challenge.     

Flip-Flop on Climate Change

正Biden’s ambitious carbon reduction plan is easier said than done ‘What makes climate change difficult is that it is not an instantaneous catastrophic event," former U.S. President Barack Obama said during an interview in 2016."It’s a slow-moving issue that, on a day-to-day basis, people don’t experience and don’t see." He stressed that the aftermath is "terrifying."     

The Climate Change Challenge

<正>After a fortnight of marathon negotiations,envoys from nearly 200 countries have endorsed an agreement on a method to combat global warming at the climate change conference in Paris on December 12.The historic agreement sets out the objective of limiting global temperature increases to a maximum of2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.It also challenges nations to work toward a more ambitious target—a limit of just 1.5 degrees.     

Climate Change Talks Move Forward

<正>After negotiations between various parties,the United Nations climate talks in Bonn,Germany,finally achieved positive results and laid a solid foundation for final negotiations on the implementation of the Paris Agreement.Before this conference,Donald Trump’s announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from     

The Impacts of Climate Change

A study by researchers of the University of Arizona and the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that greenhouse gases emitted by human beings can speed up the melting of icecaps at both the North and South poles, resulting in a global sea level rise of 4 to 6 meters per century,much faster than previously forecasted.