How Can the Four Comprehensives Be Implemented?

At the end of 2014,Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the strategic layout of the Four Comprehensives—comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society,deepening reform,advancing the rule of law and strictly governing the Communist Party of China.Later,the new guideline for development became the overall framework for the current leadership's work and has aroused interest at home and abroad.From Issue No.17 onward,Beijing Review publishes a series of commentaries by foreign researchers commissioned by Renmin University of China’s Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies.     

The ROC: The Church as a Symbol of Desired Wholeness

While in 1989 Orthodox Christianity signified—even for nonbelievers!—individuality, law, and freedom, today it signifies adherence to the majority, passivity, and state power.     

Etalon-free laser mass-spectrometry as a new method of the elementary analysis of bone tissue at identification

The results of an experimental study dealing with the elementary composition of bone tissue by using the method of laser mass spectrometry are described in the paper. The method ensures the quantification of concentration values of all elements from the Mendeleev periodic table that can be made within an extensive dynamic range, which makes it promising in the forensic medical identification.