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Top-down planning chases innovation

[2015-03-12 08:18]

In this year's Government Work Report, Premier Li Keqiang has repeatedly stressed the importance of innovation.

Rising pension burden poses a problem

[2015-03-12 07:50]

Without systematic reform these two explicit pension debts will increase with each passing year.

If China took another path

[2015-03-12 08:19]

A discussion on how historical events may have unfolded with a different set of circumstances will not rewrite history.

Two-child policy splits opinion

[2015-03-11 19:47]

It has been a year since implementation of the two-child policy but the effect is far from expectation. About 16.87 million children were born in China in 2014, only 470,000 more than that in the previous year.

Education reform key to mass innovation

[2015-03-11 17:28]

A national political adviser has called for education reform to promote mass innovation.

Statutory taxation: a step forward for modern China

[2015-03-11 17:16]

Along with an open budget, statutory taxation - that is, taxation that is passed as law via the NPC - is the foundation of a country and its finance.

Voices: China stops harvesting organs from executed prisoners

[2015-03-11 17:15]

It is truly remarkable that our Chinese government has finally realized even death row prisoners have the right to decide how to dispose of their remains.

Retirement age rise needs social consensus

[2015-03-11 14:15]

Only by revising the retirement age in a fairway and launching reforms on the back of social consensus, can we achieve a "multi-win" solution.