NUJIANG EXPERIENCE a Beautiful Road to Poverty Reduction

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NUJIANG EXPERIENCE A Beautiful Road to poverty reduction

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CONTENTS EDITOR’S DESK OPINION 38 Central Strategy 02 Nujiang’s Miracle 24 Collectivism and Openness Local goes global in central China The origins of China’s civilization 40 Debunking the Myths THIS WEEK and empowerment Author André Lacroix paints the picture COVER STORY 26 Human Rights, U.S. Hypocrisy of the true Tibet U.S. stance toward Israel-Palestine 12 The Highway of Hope 42 The Man Who Fed the World conflict evokes criticism The life and work of Yuan Longping, A Beautiful Road connects 28 For the Health of All remote regions in southwest father of hybrid rice Vaccine distribution: a matter of global China public product delivery CULTURE 16 Not One Less 46 Night at the Museum One vocational school in a FEATURES border county raises educational International Museum Day, a light hopes 32 Bouncing Back to Normal in pandemic darkness From Yunnan to Qinghai, residents 18 China’s Poverty Alleviation shake off the shock EXPAT’S EYE What is the secret of its success? 34 Immunization Challenges 48 My Reverse Culture Shock: Key barriers obstructing the realization of England to China and Back global herd immunity Addressing the challenges of moving 36 Youthful Vitality back home The Greater Bay Area, a hot hub for young aspirations

Cover Photo: Tourists take in the sights at a scenic valley in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, on May 20 (CHEN JIAN)

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A News Weekly Magazine Nujiang’s Miracle Published Since 1958 China eliminated absolute poverty in 2020, communities with supporting healthcare and

President: Li Yafang attracting the attention of the international education facilities as well as workshops for Associate Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate President: Yan Ying community, and bagging the praise and local economic development. All this en- positive comments as well as curiosity and sured a smooth relocation and resettlement, Content Director: Liu Yunyun doubt. Some cannot imagine that a country providing relocatees with the means to better Executive Editor: Yan Wei with a population of 1.4 billion has been Associate Executive Editors: Zan Jifang, Ding Ying their lives. Production Director: Yao Bin able to lift all its people out of absolute The second strategy was to create Editorial Administrators: Zeng Wenhui, Hou Beibei poverty, completing the poverty reduction Assistant Executive Editor: Li Fangfang more jobs and improve the environment Commentator: Lan Xinzhen goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for for development. With this policy, Nujiang Editors: Wang Hairong, Li Nan Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of Editorial Consultants: Sudeshna Sarkar, Madhusudan Chaubey, developed characteristic industries such as Elsbeth van Paridon, Lee Perkins schedule. Reporters: Tang Yuankai, Wang Jun, Pan Xiaoqiao, Yuan Yuan, tourism and culture, spices, valley agricul- If you go to any place in China that has Ji Jing, Lu Yan, Wen Qing, Li Qing, Li Xiaoyang, Ma Miaomiao, ture and biomedicine. Zhang Shasha, Tao Xing, Tao Zihui successfully eliminated poverty and try to Visual Director: Pamela Tobey By December 2020, the prefecture had Photo Editor: Wang Xiang see how they did so, you will feel inspired. eradicated absolute poverty with those pre- Photographer: Wei Yao Nujiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province is Art: Li Shigong viously living under the poverty line freed Design Director: Wang Yajuan one such example. Chief Designer: Cui Xiaodong from worries about food and clothing and Nujiang was an extremely poor place, Designer: Zhao Boyu guaranteed access to compulsory education, Proofreading: Ma Xin with 98 percent of its land area high moun- basic medical services and safe housing. Human Resources: Zhang Yajie tains and wide valleys and 76 percent of its Legal Counsel: Yue Cheng cultivated land vast slopes. The prefecture Such an extremely poor place’s emergence North America Bureau from poverty is a modern miracle, created Chief: Yu Shujun still had 164,000 people living below the Tel/Fax: 1-201-792-0334 poverty line in 2018, that is, 38.14 percent under the leadership of the Communist Party E-mail: [email protected] Africa Bureau of its rural population. Most of them lived in of China (CPC). During the fight against Chief Correspondent: Ni Yanshuo poverty in Nujiang, CPC members took on Tel: 27-71-6132053 the mountains or on the hillside. E-mail: [email protected] Nujiang implemented two major pover- a special role, providing guidance and en- General Editorial Office ty alleviation strategies based on studies. The couraging the locals to be enterprising. Tel: 86-10-68996252 Fax: 86-10-68326628 first was to relocate entire villages not suit- China has created an approach to pov- English Edition able for human habitation to places where erty alleviation with Chinese characteristics. Tel: 86-10-68996250 Advertising Department there was better transport. The government This may serve as a reference for other de- Tel: 86-10-68995807 BR E-mail: [email protected] funded the construction of the relocation veloping countries. Distribution Department Tel: 86-10-68310644 E-mail: [email protected]

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TURNING WASTE INTO HAPPINESS Students entertain themselves by inventing games using old tires during playtime at Xianling Primary School in Yongchun County, Fujian Province, on May 25. The primary school tries to combine used tires with sports and created dozens of games since 2018. These games, which have turned waste into useful tools, have become a distinguishing feature of the school.

http://www.bjreview.com JUNE 3, 2021 BEIJING REVIEW 3 THIS WEEK SOCIETY XINHUA Of those 1,856 surveyed, 60.9 percent voiced that new ideas should be added to the concept of filial piety as the philosophy continues to evolve with time. The majority of respondents, born between the 1970s and the 2000s, agreed that children should offer respect, support and company to their parents and other family elders. According to the survey, filial piety is about much more than the mere duty of respect, defer- ence and care for the elderly. Li Zexuan, a Beijing resident born in the 1990s, said that the publicity campaign for filial piety should focus on specific practices closely related to daily life, such as accompanying parents to exercise or teaching the elderly Blossoming Industry how to use the Internet. A staff member checks the mini lotus plants at the Mini Lotus Planting Cooperative in Linzhang, a county in Hebei Province, on May 25. More than 200,000 pots of mini lotus plants have bloomed recently at the Volunteer cooperative. In recent years, mini lotus planting has become a new way for locals to increase income. Recruitment A global recruitment drive for volunteers for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou Child Welfare are 1,217 child welfare facilities Meteorological support was launched at a ceremony across the country. services for sports and other in the host city on May 22. China’s child welfare services will In contrast to the declining major events should receive be restructured; the reform will The Hangzhou Asian Games orphan number, more children an upgrade. Emergency plans Organizing Committee see its completion by 2025, with with serious illness or disability should also be upgraded regard- the focus of the service system (HAGOC) estimates some are in need of professional care, ing meteorological support for 52,000 volunteers will be shifted to minor protection, the which the existing child welfare major events, natural disasters, Ministry of Civil Affairs said on needed to serve the 2022 Asian facilities fall short of, Zhao said. and accidents in the workplace, May 25 at a press conference. Games and Asian Para Games. the CMA said. Child welfare services in The volunteers will be The CMA also called for the China have been dedicated to Weather Warning engaged in 13 areas, including promotion of basic survival skills sheltering and supporting under- In the face of the nation’s most competition operations, lan- so that more people can protect age children whose guardianship recent severe weather disasters, guage service, spectator service themselves against meteorologi- has been assumed by the civil af- China’s weather authority has and information technology cal disasters. fairs authorities, the ministry said, stressed efforts to improve warn- at the opening and closing noting that many of the facilities ing services at the grassroots ceremonies and during sports now lie idle as the number of or- level as well as for major events. Filial Piety competitions and Games- phans dropped 66 percent from Since the end of April, severe About 91.5 percent of people in related activities. Among them, the 2012 figure to the current weather disasters have occurred a survey by China Youth Daily 45,000 will provide their 190,000. frequently, and rainfall has said that filial piety, one of the services in Hangzhou, while the Close to 70 percent of increased from the same periods most important traditional moral other 7,000 will be deployed county-level child welfare facili- in previous years, the China tenets in China, is still relevant in the co-host cities of Ningbo, ties have fewer than 10 residents, Meteorological Administration today and should be promoted Wenzhou, Jinhua, Huzhou and Zhao Yong, an official with the (CMA) said during a video con- in society, Xinhua News Agency Shaoxing. ministry, said, adding that there ference on May 24. reported on May 23. Applications for volunteers

4 BEIJING REVIEW JUNE 3, 2021 http://www.bjreview.com THIS WEEK XINHUA will be open until October 31, cooperation, the initiative said. 2021. The Hangzhou 2022 It also called for the Games will take place from authorities to implement September 10 to 25 next year. innovation-based development strategies, deepen cooperation Cooperation in the digital economy, and improve infrastructure facilities Initiative plus modern logistics systems. Countries along the New These efforts should create an International Land-Sea Trade open corridor that is conve- Corridor and 14 Chinese prov- nient, safe, and efficient and inces, autonomous regions and promotes green growth and cities jointly released a coop- low carbon operations. eration initiative at a trade and The New International Land- investment fair in Chongqing Sea Trade Corridor is a trade Municipality on May 21. and logistics passage jointly The cooperation initiative constructed by Singapore and was issued by Indonesia, Viet provincial-level regions of west Self-Charging Robot Nam, Laos and other countries China. An automotive charging robot is on display during the China along the trade corridor with Guangzhou International Automotive Technology Expo 2021 in 12 provincial-level regions Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, on May 25. in west China, the southern China-Africa island province of Hainan, and Exchanges Zhanjiang, a city in Guangdong A video and photo competition Province, at the third Western was launched in Beijing on May China International Fair for 21 for contestants to share their at the launch ceremony that he create an environment condu- Investment and Trade, which experiences related to the in- hoped the competition would cive to artistic creation. took place from May 20 to 23. creasingly diverse China-Africa see extensive participation and “This is one of the ways The parties should mobilize relations. unveil moving stories about in which we will be able to their strengths to facilitate The 2021 China-Africa China-Africa collaboration show the true face of China- trade, promote investment, Video and Photo Competition, from various perspectives. Africa relations, which bears improve industrial chains and themed Friendship in Focus, Martin Mpana, Dean of the the encouraging mark of an optimize supply chains, the Together for Future, aims to African Diplomatic Corps and ambitious, fruitful and win-win initiative said. provide a platform for Chinese Ambassador of Cameroon to partnership,” he said. All parties should leverage and Africans to communicate China, recognized the value of The competition is co- the role of the trade corridor’s through visual artworks. photos and videos as a power- sponsored by the Secretariat of operational and organizational Lu Cairong, Vice President ful means of communication. Chinese Follow-Up Committee center to strengthen bilateral, of China International He encouraged the launch of of the Forum on China-Africa trilateral, and multilateral Publishing Group (CIPG), said similar initiatives in Africa to Cooperation and CIPG. XINHUA

The Charm of Science Students from a primary school in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, watch their self-made robot in action on May 21.

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Also, Internet platform enter- operating system HarmonyOS 2021, the municipal government Tighter Regulation prises shall not provide services for smartphones on June 2. said on May 24. China has enhanced supervision for virtual currency-related busi- Known as Hongmeng in During the period, 20 over virtual currencies to further ness activities. Chinese, it was first launched regional headquarters of foreign- fend off financial risks and It is also unallowable to on Internet of Things devices, funded multinational companies forestall speculation in virtual underwrite insurance businesses including wearables and tablets, were established, raising the total currency businesses. related to virtual currencies or in August 2019. number to 791 in the city. Seven Bitcoin mining and bring virtual currencies into The Shenzhen-headquartered foreign-funded research and trading-related activities will insurance liability coverage, ac- company expects the number of development centers were also see a crackdown, according to cording to the announcement. devices running on HarmonyOS set up, raising Shanghai’s total to a statement from a meeting Virtual currency, a type of to reach 300 million by the end of 488. The new ones are mainly in of the Financial Stability and specific virtual goods represent- the year. advanced industries such as bio- Development Committee under ed by bitcoin, has no monetary Yang Haisong, Vice President medicine, smart manufacturing the State Council in May. properties. For example, it has no of Huawei’s Artificial Intelligence and high-end services. The statement came days legal tender status, said Dong and All-Scenario Intelligence Shanghai will continue to pro- after three Chinese industrial as- Ximiao, chief researcher with Business Unit, said the company mote all-round opening up and sociations vowed to apply tougher Merchants Union Consumer would cooperate with app and improve its business environment restrictions on virtual currency Finance Co. Ltd. hardware developers to use its to support foreign enterprises for trading. It also indicates an escala- Participating in illegal bitcoin latest operating system and pro- greater and better development, tion of regulation, as the targets trading and speculation activities vide new services for customers. Vice Mayor Zong Ming said. for supervision have expanded may lead to huge property losses Analysts see HarmonyOS from bitcoin trading to mining. for investors and affect China’s as an alternative to Google’s Financial institution mem- Road Test bers, payment institutions and financial stability and social or- Android and Apple’s iOS. E-commerce giant JD.com, other agencies shall not use der, Dong said, adding that such online service company Meituan, virtual currency to price products activities must be rectified. Foreign Investment and autonomous driving vehicle or services, read an announce- The total foreign direct invest- producer Neolix were given ment from industrial associations Huawei OS ment into Shanghai rose 20.3 permits on May 25 to run their of Internet finance, banking, and Hi-tech giant Huawei said on percent year on year to $7.77 unmanned delivery vehicles on payment and clearing. May 25 that it will launch its new billion in the first four months of designated open roads in Beijing,

NUMBERS ($1=6.4 yuan)

Crude Oil Production Growth Rate of Crude Oil Production Daily Output (1,000 tons) (% y.o.y.)

560 4.0 551 3.4 550 547 3.5 3.3 541 544 540 537 537 532 3.0 529 531 531 529 2.4 530 525 2.5 2.3 520 2.0 510 1.4 1.5 1.3 1.2 500 1.0 0.9 0.9 490 0.7 0.5 480 0.6 0.4 0 0 APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN-FEB MAR APR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN-FEB MAR APR 2020 2021 2020 2021

6 BEIJING REVIEW JUNE 3, 2021 http://www.bjreview.comhttp://www.bjreview.com THIS WEEK marking the first time the capital Bank of China, the central bank, phone users of China Telecom, Merchants Bank and the global will allow such vehicles. and five other government de- China Mobile and China Unicom. management consulting firm The vehicles will drive partments, Xinhua News Agency Home to the world’s largest Bain & Company. around the Beijing high-level au- reported on May 25. 5G network, China has seen By the end of 2020, the tonomous driving demonstration New types of rural business more innovative applications of investable assets of Chinese area, a 60-square km area at the entities such as family farms the new communication technol- citizens had hit 241 trillion Beijing Economic-Technological and farmers’ cooperatives have ogy in a thriving, lucrative sector. yuan ($37.69 trillion), with the Development Area, also known gradually become a vital force in There are more than 9,000 compound annual growth rate as E-Town, in Daxing District. ensuring farmers’ income growth, new cases of 5G applications in between 2018 and 2020 reach- Kong Lei, Deputy Director of the supply of agricultural prod- China, such as the introduction ing 13 percent, read the report. E-Town, said the unmanned de- ucts and the transformation and of smart construction sites with In 2020, the number of livery vehicle operators will run upgrading of the agricultural higher management efficiency high net-worth individuals with express deliveries, catering, and sector. The document specifies and lower safety risks, according investable assets of over 10 mil- retail business in the demonstra- promoting development of cred- to the MIIT. lion yuan ($1.56 million) in the tion area. it loans, innovation of exclusive It has predicted that in 2025, country reached 2.62 million. In April, Beijing innovated its financial products and services 5G will directly generate 2.93 Benefiting from the country’s policy on intelligent connected and expanding and diversifying trillion yuan ($457 billion) in economic transformation and vehicles in the demonstration financial channels. economic added value. Also, the development of the real area, allowing new auto prod- 5G handsets will account for 80 economy, the structure of its ucts, technologies, and modes to 5G Phones percent of total mobile phone high net-worth population is be- be tested and operated there. The three major telecom opera- shipments in China in the second coming increasingly diversified, tors had 310 million cellphone half of the year. according to the report. Financial Services terminals connected to their 5G The report forecasts that Rural inclusive financial reform ex- networks by the end of April, Private Wealth the investable assets of Chinese periments will be expanded, while the Ministry of Industry and Private wealth in China has citizens will reach 268 trillion pilot zones for financial services Information Technology (MIIT) seen steady expansion as the yuan ($41.91 trillion), while the supporting rural vitalization will said on May 25. country’s economy continues high net-worth population will be built, according to a document The number accounted for to power ahead, according to a approach 3 million by the end of jointly released by the People’s about 19 percent of all mobile report jointly released by China the year.

Industrial Natural Gas Production Growth Rate of Industrial Natural Gas Production Average Daily Output (mln cubic meters) (% y.o.y.) 700 18 600 590 600 16 600 14.3 540 560 560 13.7 13.5 510 510 530 14 12.7 500 490 11.9 11.8 12.1 460 460 12 11.3

400 10 7.6 300 8 6 4.8 7.0 200 4 100 3.7 2

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Leaders of member countries convene A voter casts his ballot at a polling at the EU headquarters in Brussels station in Damascus during the on May 24. The two-day meeting, presidential election on May 26 where participants pledged to increase global vaccine production capacities, ended on May 25 XINHUA  BENIN

President Patrice Talon (right) and Vice President Mariam Chabi Talata attend the swearing-in ceremony held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle in Porto-Novo, political capital of Benin, on May 23 XINHUA

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GEORGIA

Military personnel participate in a parade marking Georgia’s Independence Day at the Freedom Square in Tbilisi on May 26 XINHUA XINHUA 

MALAYSIA

Rescue workers transfer a passenger injured in a metro train collision in Kuala Lumpur on May 24. Over 200 people were injured as two metro light rail trains collided in a tunnel

 UNITED STATES

Investigators examine the scene of a mass shooting in San Jose, California, on May 26. Nine people, including the suspect, died and at least one person was injured XINHUA

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 BYTEDANCE CEO TO STEP DOWN

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, a privately-held startup offering global creation and interaction platforms, will step down as CEO later this year as the company gears up for unprec- edented changes, both at home and abroad. In a recent internal letter to employees, 38-year-old Zhang, who previously founded several successful apps like TikTok, said he is making the transition to spend more time on “long-term strategy, corporate culture, and social responsibility.” “Although the business has been developing well, we hope that the company will continue to make greater innovations and breakthroughs, and become more creative and meaningful,” he said. According to the company, Liang Rubo, currently head of human resources of ByteDance, will take over as CEO and Zhang will move into a key strategy role by the end of this year.

However, the biggest challenge in Garbage Sorting implementing waste classification is get- Economic Daily ting residents to develop the habit and fully May 25 participate. More specific measures should A year after the implementation of compul- strengthen people’s awareness and spur them sory garbage sorting in Beijing, the household on to take the initiative. Shanghai’s New Journey waste of China’s capital city has been re- Meanwhile, there is still great potential to Outlook Weekly duced significantly. However, residents and reduce waste from being produced, like de- May 24 communities living in this metropolis are still creasing food waste, the use of take-out lunch From developing the Pudong financial trying to acclimatize to the new recycling boxes and general packaging. district to launching a pilot free trade zone, system. In the future, both government and Shanghai has been a symbol of China’s In the first four months of 2021, average community units will look to further im- openness and economic development. daily volume of household garbage in Beijing prove services to better respond to citizen Now, the city is among the most vibrant was 20,600 tons, a decrease of 25.6 percent complaints regarding waste removal and urban centers in all of Asia. from 2019, with a daily reduction of more transportation, daily maintenance of garbage Major achievements should be made than 7,100 tons. The participation of Beijing’s stations, and the random stacking of large and regarding Shanghai’s positioning as a residents in waste sorting reaches 90 percent. construction waste.

“In the more than 70 years since the “The developmental path of socialism founding of the People’s Republic of with Chinese characteristics offers a new China, China has never initiated a war, way of thinking and developmental and is the only country in the world that direction, as well as a point of view for has written peaceful development into global governance.” its constitution.” Socorro Gomes, President of the World Peace Council, adding Wang Yi, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, that Chinese people are the creators of history, during stressing at the Munich Security Conference on May 25 an interview with CGTN on May 25

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registration area of either the bride or groom. Marriage Registration The change being trialed will enable world leading economic, financial, trade, Guancha.gmw.cn shipping and technology center by 2025, people living outside their place of household according to Shanghai’s proposal for the May 20 registration to register their marriage in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and its China will pilot an inter-provincial arrange- areas where they have resided for a continu- development goals for 2035 released last ment to save its growing migrant population ous period of at least six months, the ministry said. December. from having to return to their hometowns for An average of 10 million new marriages During the period, Shanghai has marriage registration. is registered annually in China, while nearly 4 pledged to further open up its doors to let The pilot will be first introduced in million divorces are handled across the coun- the world share the benefits of its high- Liaoning, Shandong, Guangdong, Chongqing try, MCA statistics show. quality growth. The city will improve its and Sichuan, among other provincial-level overall core competitiveness and advance The pilot regulation has become feasible regions, from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023, a new round of opening up. thanks to the digitalization of the marriage the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) an- The plan envisages Shanghai to gain the registration system. A national marriage in- nounced on May 19. required competitive edge to be a hub for formation database is now in place and can Under current regulations, marriages international trade. It also endeavors to make be shared between civil affairs departments the city a major import and export distribution must be registered within the household across the country. center connecting the Yangtze River Delta  TOP LIVER SURGEON DIES AT 99 region and serving the entire country. High-end resources from around the Wu Mengchao, founder of hepatobiliary surgery in China and former vice president of world are likely to gather in Shanghai at a Shanghai-based Second Military Medical University, passed away at the age of 99 in Shanghai faster pace in the next five years, further on May 22. elevating the city’s global influence. The In 1991, Wu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2005, city should also have more development he became the first physician to receive the State Preeminent Science and drivers. Technology Award, China’s highest academic accolade, for raising the In addition, a modern infrastructure success rate of hepatic surgery for liver cancer patients in China from 16 system in line with Shanghai’s role as a percent to over 98 percent. Wu completed over 16,000 surgical operations megacity should be in place by 2025. Both throughout his 75-year-long career. tangible and intangible networks should As the first Chinese doctor to establish a theoretical basis for liver sur- collaborate so that Shanghai can become a gery, he was responsible for more than 30 major medical achievements core hub connecting the rest of the world. through independent innovation.

“The past 70 years prove that “Any so-called ‘verdict’ or ‘ruling’ of China-Pakistan friendship and cooperation the ‘tribunal’ is nothing more than a are not only in the fundamental interests wasted piece of paper... It’s a of the two countries and peoples, but also pseudo-court set up to attack conducive to maintaining regional and world Xinjiang and interfere in China’s peace, stability and development.” internal affairs.” Nong Rong, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, in an article published Xu Guixiang, spokesperson for China’s Xinjiang Uygur on China Daily on May 25 Autonomous Region, denouncing the so-called “Uygur tribunal” as a trampling of international law at a press conference in Beijing on May 25

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An aerial view of Zhiziluo Village, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, on May 21

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