Exploring the Deep Sea

JAMES Cameron is great, says Wang Pinxian, a professor at Tongji University’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang’s not talking about films like Avatar and Titanic, directed by Cameron. Rather, he’s interested in the Canada native’s record-breaking dive to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, and of all earth’s     

SOWING THE SEEDS OF LAW

Staff members of the People’s Court of Yunyang County,southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality,distribute a printed version of the Constitution to students of a local primary school on December 2,two days ahead of China’s inaugural Constitution Day.     

SMARTER,BIGGER, STRONGER

正List of China’s top 500 companies shows new trends Profitability, innovation and internationalization—these are some of the focuses of the country’s top companies. Seventy years after the founding of the People’s Republic     

The Crisis of Tainted Rice

Soil pollution is impacting one of China’s long-cherished staples.What’s to be done? Central China’s Hunan Province is one of the country’s biggest rice producers.Because Yuan Longping,     

AN UPCOMING SPRING FOR REFORM

China prepares to fulfill its leadership transition and pursue its most crucial national goals The upcoming First Plenary Session of the 12th National People’s Congress,China’s top legislature, and the First Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,the country’s top advisory body,will finally complete the country’s leadership transition. The job performance of the new leadership of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC),headed by Xi Jinping as general secretary     

CPAFFC, CDPRKFA Send Message of Condolence over the Death of Kim Jong Ⅱ

Editor’s note: Comrade Kim J ong Il, the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and     

On the System of Regional Ethnic Autonomy and Tibet’s Political Modernization

In eras of revolution and development, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has scored notable achievements, including in ethnic affairs, one aspect of the Party’s work. as one of China’s three fundamental political systems and an important part of the Party’s ethnic affairs policy, the system of regional ethnic autonomy is the Party’s great creation that integrates Marxist-Leninist theory with China’s national conditions. it has been conducive to promoting the development of different ethnic groups and fostering harmony among them, which displays its superiority and vitality. This     

VOICES FROM THE PEOPLE

Minsheng, or people’s well-being, has become the catchword during sessions of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, and the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s     

Voices

Zhou Xiaochuan:Stock and Housing Bubbles Should Be Discussed Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, says China’s nancial sys-tem faces the problem of excess     

Scientific Growth

As one of the world’s largest grain consumers,food security has always been a major concern for the Chinese nation.China must confront the challenge of feeding a fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the planet’s arable land. In 2011,China’s grain output recorded growth for the eighth successive year,and total production reached an all-time high of 571 million tons. In terms of food security,China’s goal is to maintain a self-sufficiency rate of above 95 percent.However,an annual net population growth of 7.39 million and the effective decline of the area of farmland     

THIS WEEK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Visitors pose by a bed of flowers in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on October 1.The day is China’s National Day,with this year marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.     

Highlights of Supreme People's Court Work Report

正Zhou Qiang, China’s chief justice, delivered a work report of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) at the second plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9,2018     

CULTURAL FUSION China and Latin America grow closer through cultural exchanges

正The Peruvian version of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China was released in Lima,capital of Peru,on November 19.The local version was jointly published by China’s Foreign Languages Press(FLP)and Peru’s Editora Peru.The book is a collection of 79 of Xi’s speeches,talks,interviews,instructions and correspondence.The FLP originally published the works in a number of languages,including     

Highlights of Supreme People's Procuratorate Work Report

正China’s Procurator-General Cao Jianming delivered a work report of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) at the second plenary meeting of the first session of the13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2018     

Technology and An Open Economy

正Against the backdrop of the ongoing annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, Beijing Review reporter Zhang Shasha asked Urs Bolt, founder of Bolt.now, a tech advisory, and former Director of Credit Suisse bank’s external asset management department, about his views on the Two Sessions and China’s     

CEMENTING TIES

<正>Diplomatic activities to boost confidence in global recovery After the conclusion of the First Session of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, and the First Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top political advisory body, in mid-March, China is now receiving a batch of foreign leaders this post-COVID spring.     

Unleash the Dragon

China.Land of promise,land of opportunity.It’s the new San Francisco,the new Hollywood,the new anything you want.It’s that completely unique piece of art,it’s the traditional skill of papercutting/ceramics/shadow puppetry.     

GLOBALIZING ON NUCLEAR POWER

正China’s nuclear industry gains momentum,aiming to be the world’s major exporter On December 16,2015,the State Council authorized the construction of two nuclear power projects—a pilot project of China’s third-generation nuclear power technology at the Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the expansion of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Lianyungang,east China’s Jiangsu Province.     

Capacity for Greatness

正China’s largest private investment company spearheads the country’s industrial upgrade On the morning of August 21,Dong Wenbiao,a seasoned veteran of China’s financial sector,stood upright in front of a skyscraper in Shanghai,looking more confi-dent and ambitious than ever before.The 57-year-old used to be Chairman of the Board of China’s first national bank founded by private capital—China Minsheng Bank.Starting     

The Birth and Growth of a Magazine （Part 1）

NOW in its 60th year of publication,China Today debuted as an English-language bimonthly under the name China Reconstructs at the beginning of 1952 (It adopted its current monthly format in 1955). The magazine’s founder,Sun Yat-sen’s wife Soong Ching Ling,was personally involved in every detail of the magazine’s creation,and regarded it as one of her major tasks after the founding of the People’s Republic.