OPENLY SHINING

正As the host city of the SCO Summit,idyllic Qingdao takes center stage On the southern side of the Shandong Peninsula in east China lies the beautiful and economical y developed city of Qingdao,host of the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)Summit on June 9-10.Surrounded by mountains,the city faces the     

PEARL OF THE SILK ROAD

<正>With its well-preserved ethnic culture,Xinjiang,the most western region in China,is drawing the eyes of the world Many visitors to Kashgar,the westernmost city in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,may well be lured by a widespread saying that"you’ll not know the true face of Xinjiang if you don’t go to Kashgar."With Uygur people accounting for around 90 percent of its population,the oasis city west of the Taklamakan Desert is called a living museum of Uygur culture owing to its preservation of ethnic lifestyles amid modern trappings.     

PEARL IN THE GOBI DESERT

On June 12-16, in the run-up to the launch of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft,a Beijing Review reporter entered the rarely visited Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in     

RESTORING LUSTER TO THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT

<正>Hong Kong embarks on a new journey 25 years after its returnto the motherlandHong Kong has made anirreplaceable contribution.Since its return,it has contributed greatly to the motherland’s long-term,steady and fast economic growth,President Xi Jinping said on July 1.     

A DESERT ODYSSEY TO THE PEARL OF THE SILK ROAD

正Making my way slowly along the cliff face, I gazed at the ornate facades of each temple I passed on my way to the upper-tier caves. As I entered the first cave and stared up at the swirling feitian—the flying Apsaras of Buddhist art, I wondered how many hundreds of thousands of others, from near and far,