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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
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
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
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A Japanese student’s “social experiment” across China
Jul 6, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi
Rewriting romance: How young Chinese are rethinking love and marriage
Jun 27, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi
"We'll never yield": Chinese foreign ministry invokes Chairman Mao in response to U.S. tariff bullying
Apr 10, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025
Jul 2, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi
The men watching over China’s safest cities
Sep 24, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
Why a 2,500-year-old Chinese philosophy still sparks and speaks to the modern world?
Jul 9, 2025 • Yifei Shi and Jiang Jiang

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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
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Dec 31, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
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Taiwan

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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
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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

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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

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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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