China: An Exemplar in Respecting and Protecting Human Rights

China has developed its own views on human rights and pursued its own path of human rights development in light of the UN Charter principles,its national conditions,and its experience over many years.Human rights in China have scored remarkable achievements.The Chinese perspective on human rights and the Chinese path of human rights development has become a shining example for the whole world.     

KEEPING PACE WITH THE TIMES

正As the Communist Party of China(CPC) celebrates the 100 th anniversary of its founding, how the Party manages relations with the rest of the world has become a main focus of attention.Since its inception, the CPC has been a progressive party with an international vision. During the revolutionary years, it won the support and sympathy from many other countries. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the CPC's international relations have become part of China's diplomacy, contributing to the country's development as well as reform and opening up.     

Ziboy:Photographer Lifts the Veil on the Real Beijing

WEN Ling is an ordinary, 33-year-old Beijinger and arts graduate who has become a celebrity of sorts for his photoblog Ziboy （http：//ziboy.com/）. Displaying his many vivid pictures of the Chinese capital, the website is a window through which foreigners have become ＂virtual explorers＂ of China. Now, many famed writers and photographers admit to Wen＇s influence on them. Ziboy has inspired blogs that not only mimick its approach, but also its signature colors and webpage design.     

China's Peaceful Development A Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats

正Flying the flag of America First, the United States, the largest beneficiary of economic globalization, seems bent on sailing against the trend of the times toward its imagined destination of "making America great again."As it stirs up trade disputes, withdraws from international organizations and treaties, and rebuffs interdependence, the sole superpower in the world has become a lone wolf with unilateralism and protectionism as its credo.That has put the global village on edge, particularly as the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century with raging conflicts, unbal-     

Architectural dreaming

For the first 800 years of its existence, Beijing retained essentially the same character: a walled palace city at its centre, organised on a strict north-south axis and contained within a sea of courtyard houses along lanes too narrow forcars. Today Beijing's basic unit of architectural scale has become the skyscraper, erected a dozen at a time and facing massive highways. Ancient buildings are so small and unloved by comparison that they threaten to disappear from view. Fuelled by an economic boom, and propelled by banks flushed with mortgage cash, Beijing has embarked on the largest building campaign the world has ever seen.     

Anti-dumping-A Worry about"New Protectionism"

Induced by the global economic downturn and the intensifyingglobal over-supply, a new wave of protectionism has come up. Chinahas become a "favorable" target of anti-dumping investigations.The rising protectionism has left China with no choice but to takefirm action to exercise its rights as a WTO member.     

An Expanded Network

Since its inception five years ago,the China-CELAC(Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States)Forum has served as an important platform for bilateral cooperation,providing a strong institutional guarantee for the imple-mentation of the political consensus andcooperation plans between the two sides.It has become a major mechanism to work together in a wide range of areas,boosting the emergence of new platforms for cooperation.     

Destination Shanghai

Although a young city at 700 years old-in its fancy compared with Chinese civilization as a wholeShanghai has become one of the most recognized and dynamic cities in China.     

A FORCE FOR PEACE

<正>Chinese military contributes its fair share to a better world This year,the Chinese People’s Liberation Army(PLA)has turned 90.Since its founding,the PLA has made great achievements for national independence,the liberation of the people and China’s modernization drive and become an important force in safeguarding national security and world peace.As China develops,the PLA has also been     

Progress Made in Promoting Relations With Bolivia to a New Level

The South American country of Bolivia is currently making great efforts to advance political,economic and social reforms,with the focus on developing a broad-based economy that can improve the livelihood of its people. With the country now at a crucial stage in development and reform, Bolivia-China friendship has become of great significance for future develop-     

Jixi:A Promising Eco-Tourism City

LOCATED in southeastern Heilongjiang Province and bordering Russia to the east, Jixi City administerssix districts and the three county-level cities of Jidong, Hulin and Mishan. Within its boundary is Xingkai Lake with all its natural wonders, and the city has worked hard to build on this elemental advantage, and become a unique eco-tourism destination.     

A Trade Off

China's growing trade surplus has become a major concern for some of its major trade partners, such as the United States and the European Union. As the latest statistics from China's Customs Administration suggest, while the country's export growth rate fell 1.2 percentage points and that of imports rose 2.4     

Pearl on the Crown

In April 1988, a new province of China, Hainan Province,was born. Meanwhile, the State Council listed the province asa special economic zone—the youngest as well as the largest inChina. The past 20 years have witnessed the province achievingsignificant economic and social progress. Tourism has becomeone of its pillar industries. With its sky opened to the world anda free trade zone being planned, Hainan has become one of themost energetic areas of China.Luo Baoming, Governor of Hainan Province, spoke to BeijingReview and shared his views on the island's development in thepast 20 years and its future orientation and development programs.     

Industrial Policies Necessary for Sound Growth

<正>Recently a debate between academics on whether to abolish industrial policies has become heated.As the nation enters its "New Normal" economic phase,choosing either side of the argument will determine the success of China’s supply-side structural reform and its sound economic performance.     

The Business of Nostalgia

NOSTALGIA usually refers to a bitter-sweet mood in which one remembers "the way we were." Older people are prone to it, but recently, ersatz nostalgia has become a trend with the younger genera-tions born in the 1960s, the 1970s, or even the 1980s. Each age group has its own past to be wistful about. Retro ele-ments are in fashion, in entertainment, in f ilm and television, and in literature. It has become the critical yeast in the bread of commercial promotion.     

Olympic Glory:At What Price?

STRATFORD,a run-down area of east London,is experiencing a re-awakening.This is an area that has never in its history risen far above poverty and squalor,and where depression and unemployment are commonplace.For just a few weeks this summer,however,it will become the center of attention and entertainment for London and the world,as it hosts the 30th Olympiad.True,it will never achieve the cultural status of Stratford-upon-Avon,the birthplace of William Shakespeare,but it will enjoy its few moments of glory.At what price,though?     

Let the WTO Rules Rule

The decade in the World Trade Organization has been a learning and growing process for China: in the course of grappling with disputes with its trade partners, the country has become better versed in international rules and comfortable in employ-ing them in its defense. Recent events make this evident. On March 11 the WTO’s appellate body ruled that the U.S. had unlawfully imposed anti-dumping     

HOTEL INFORMATION

The Legendale Hotel Beijing The Legendale Hotel Beijing has of-ficially opened its doors.Set to become an instant sensation, the platinum five-star hotel is the epitome of European elegance and luxury.Occupying a prime position in the heartof town, the 390-room hotel is ideally locat-ed to make the most of both old and new     

Unremitting Efforts

In a speech at a meeting in Beijing to advance the work on coordinating the prevention and control of COVID19 and economic and social development on February 23,Chinese President Xi Jinping said the Chinese nation has experienced many ordeals in its history,but it has never been overwhelmed.Instead,it has become more courageous,growing up and rising up from the hardships.He called for unremitting efforts to fully unleash the huge potential and powerful driving force of China’s development and strive to achieve the goals and tasks for economic and social development.     

First International Winter Dragonboat Race

THE dragonboat race has a history of thousands of years,Today,it hascrossed the national border to become an integrated facet of internationalChinese sport and culture.Chinese sport and culture. Jilin City,situated at longitude 126 degrees east and latitude 43 degreesnorth,has four distinct seasons.The source of its Songhua River,the world'sonly ice-free lake in the frigid zone,is in Changbai Mountain.The river flows