CREATING NEW MIRACLES IN ASIA

Beijing Review: The theme of the 2018 BFA Annual Conference is An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity. How was this theme for-mulated? What is the BFA expecting to achieve at this year's conference?     

WRESTLING IN OLYMPIC GAMES VS CHINA＇S ETHNIC WRESTLING

Wrestling
When the ancient Olympic Games first started, wrestling was already a mature sport. It is universally acknowledged that wrestling is the earliest competitive sport. A series of murals depicting wrestlers in ancient Egypt were made 5,000 years ago. Two thousand years later, when the first ancient Olympic Games were held in 776 BCE, wrestling was included. Wrestling continues to be a major sports event in all Olympic Games.     

THE FIRST BRICS GAMES

<正>Athletes holding their national flags take an oath of fair play at the opening ceremony of the 2017 BRICS Games in Guangzhou,south China's Guangdong Province,on June 17.Nearly 300 athletes from five countries-China,Russia,Brazil,India and South Africa—competed in three major sporting disciplines-basketball,volleyball and martial arts—during the four-day event.     

RIO GAMES,MADE-IN-CHINA

正Chinese enterprises vie to penetrate the global market through the 2016 OlympicsOn the morning of August 6,hundreds of millions of Chinese sprung out of their beds excitedly to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony held in Rio de Janeiro.Apart from the ebullient samba and super model Gisele Bündchen’s stunning     

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

正Swimmer ye Shiwen waves upon arrival in Incheon,a coastal city in the northwest of the Republic of Korea,on September 16 for the 2014 Asian Games.With its 1,328-member delegation,which includes 33 Olympic champions such as ye,China seeks to top the Games for the ninth straight time since 1982.     

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ASIA

<正>The Boao Forum for Asia(BFA)Annual Conference 2017 was convened in Boao,south China’s Hainan Province,from March 23 to 26,attracting much global attention with Asian countries’rising contributions to global growth.In an interview with Boao Review,the forum’s official publication,Zhou Wenzhong,Secretary General of the BFA,explained the theme of this year’s conference,the role that Asian countries—China in particular—will play in promoting globalization and the challenges they’ll face.The following is an edited excerpt of the interview:     

BASIC CHINESE FOR THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES

家明: 你 在 看 什么 呢? Jiǐmíng: Nǐ zài kàn shénme ne? Jiaming: What are you looking at? 吉瑞:快 来, 这 场 比赛 很 精彩。 Jíruì: Kuài lái, zhè chǐng bǐsài hǐn jǐngcǐi. Jerry: Come, the match is fantastic. 家明: 什么 比赛? Jiǐmíng: Shén     

BASIC CHINESE FOR THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES

conversation 吉瑞 : 先生,请问 去 北京大学 体育馆 怎么 走? Jíruì: Xiānsheng, qāngwèn qù Bāijāng Dàxué Tāyùguān zānme zāu? Jerry: Sir, do you know the way to the Peking University Gymnasium? 行人:一 直 往 前 走, 到 十字 路口 往 北 拐 就 看到     

BASIC CHINESE FOR THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES

Conversation吉瑞：你这件外套很漂亮,很适合你。 Jíruì：Nǐzhèjiàn wàitào hěn piàoliang,hěn shìhénǐ. Jerry：Your coat looks nice.It fits you well.     

Legal-Ease BEIJING & NORTHEAST CHINA INVESTMENT FACTS

Beijing and northeast China are fast becoming an area of growing interest to international investors. Here we highlight some aspects of the major cities and consider options for setting up business in this area. Changchun China's car city Changchun means cars. The city's most famous enterprise, First Automobile Works (FAW), created China's very first road vehicle, the "Jiefang" truck, back in 1956. FAW now covers an enormous area stretching for several kilometers in the Changchun Auto Economic Trade Development     

LINKED IN

<正>The China-Myanmar pipeline is a vital artery connecting both nations Zayar Oo has never been to China and has little idea of what it is like there.Yet there is a strong link between the 37-year-old villager from Myanmar and the country’s northern neighbor—the Myanmar-China crude oil pipeline which snakes from Made Island on the western