OPINION: U.S.’ MIDDLE EAST HYPOCRISY P.26 | FEATURES: YOUTHFUL ENTREPRENEURSHIP P.36 VOL.64 NO.22 JUNE 3, 2021 WWW.BJREVIEW.COM NUJIANG EXPERIENCE A Beautiful Road to poverty reduction RMB6.00 USD1.70 AUD3.00 GBP1.20 CAD2.60 CHF2.60 JPY188 邮发代号2-922·国内统一刊号：CN11-1576/G2 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) ©2021 Beijing Review, all rights reserved. www.bjreview.com Follow us on MEDIA PARTNER BREAKING NEWS » SCAN ME » Using a QR code reader Please recycle EDITOR’S DESK 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. 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South San Francisco, CA 94080 Submissions may be edited. 国内零售价：人民币6.00元 2 BEIJING REVIEW JUNE 3, 2021 http://www.bjreview.com THIS WEEK XINHUA 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.