Beijing Review

Setting an Example

Even before the third decade of the 21st century began, China had already broken several world records. It had ended extreme poverty and landed a module on the far side of Moon. On December 4, 2020, China successfully commissioned its new-generation nuclear fusion research device, a crucial breakthrough in taming nuclear energy that could meet all our energy needs for centuries to come.

China has thus become a model for countries trying to lift themselves out of poverty, and also for all those in the West who have sat

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