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Macro trends

Reading China’s 15th Five-Year Plan Through “Investing in People”

From public services to talent development, the draft outline shows how the idea is being translated into policy priorities.

Mar 7 • Jiang Jiang

At Chinese Premier’s policy roundtable: Who were invited this time?

Representatives from academia, the business community, and sectors including education, science, culture, public health, and sports were invited to…

Jan 21 • Jiang Jiang

President Xi Jinping's 2026 New Year message

Dec 31, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

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Taiwan

How Chinese Scholars View the Taiwan Question—and Why It Matters for Washington

From language and historical unity to red lines and regional consequences

Dec 24, 2025 • Wang Xiaopeng and Xitong Yue

Three consecutive commentaries on Taiwan: What do they signal?

Following the grand gathering marking the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s restoration to China on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency released three consecutive…

Oct 29, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Wu Jihai

How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question?

The Taiwan question arose when the Chinese nation was weak and divided, and it will be resolved when the Chinese nation's rejuvenation is complete.

Sep 3, 2025 • Jiang Jiang, Ren Ke, and Fu Shuangqi

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Why China's Hainan Free Trade Port Matters

As island-wide special customs operations get underway

Dec 18, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

How China sees the world — and plans to respond

Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.

Nov 7, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

Tracing China’s historical practice of sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands

Insights from Liu Yanhua, associate research fellow of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies

Oct 17, 2025 • Wang Xiaopeng

Beijing Scroll

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A newsletter providing comprehensive coverage of China's key events, leaders' speeches, policies, and developments.

Culture

China’s 10-minute dramas are becoming a real economy

What Qiushi and Peking University’s NSD say about China's micro-drama industry’s scale, jobs, and global reach

Feb 6 • Jiang Jiang

How global exchange strengthens the protection of Chinese cultural heritage

Views from scholars, experts in the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting

Jul 11, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Tan Yixiao

Why a 2,500-year-old Chinese philosophy still sparks and speaks to the modern world？

Harvard’s James Hankins and Confucius’ descendant Lingdong Kong share their views in Nishan, Shandong Province

Jul 9, 2025 • Yifei Shi and Jiang Jiang

What does history say about the Dalai Lama’s next life?

This week, as the Dalai Lama approaches his 90th birthday, the long-standing controversy over his succession has once again come to a head.

Jul 3, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

Society

Xi said every woman is a star on the journey of Chinese modernization

"We should jointly nurture an environment that respects women, and morph gender equality into a common value and a code of conduct embraced by everyone…

Oct 14, 2025 • Yifei Shi and Jiang Jiang

The men watching over China’s safest cities

Behind the gates of the world’s safest urban communities, the daily lives of guards reveal more than just safety.

Sep 24, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

Inside China’s 7.48 million ride-hailing drivers

What a landmark report reveals about flexible employment in a changing economy

Sep 17, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

A Japanese student’s “social experiment” across China

“What I experienced wasn't just a hitchhiking trip, but a journey through the very fabric of a nation.”

Jul 6, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi

Tech

Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites

The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday connectivity, and the unavoidable global competition…

Jan 15 • Jiang Jiang

China’s technological ambitions, in its own words

What Beijing’s newly released internal-style guides reveal about the country’s technological priorities for the next Five-Year Plan

Nov 18, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

A forgotten cyber attack on individuals with sensitive roles in China

With just one week remaining until the 2024 U.S.

Oct 29, 2024 • Cao Peixian and Jiang Jiang

A joint statement on AI and media transformation released in Urumqi

Over the past few days, I attended the 6th World Media Summit in Xinjiang, where representatives from 208 institutions, including media outlets…

Oct 16, 2024 • Jiang Jiang

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