What's the buzz

The year 2013, with all its ups and downs, will soon be in the past. With 2014 on the doorstep, let's make resolutions for our dreams and hopes next year. China Daily's mobile phone news readers share their views:

Letters

Flaw in college admission system

Following Mao's steps for rejuvenation

Comrade Mao Zedong was a great patriot and national hero of the modern times, the core of the first generation of Chinese leadership and a great figure who changed the face of the nation and led Chinese people to a new destiny. He was a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theoretician, and a pioneer of the application of Marxism in China.

Let's pursue independent diplomacy and realize the great dream

An independent foreign policy directed toward peace exercised by the country, is also adhering to Mao Zedong Thought's fundamental line of independence. We should hold aloft the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win outcomes for all, promote exchange and cooperation with other countries, defend world peace and promote common development based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and on the basis of equality and mutual benefits.

Fundamentals of Mao Zedong Thought have lasting effect

The living soul of Mao Zedong Thought is the standpoint, perspective and methods that thread the process and include three basic aspects: seeking truth from facts, mass line or from the people and for the people, and independence. The three aspects are of great value and guide our work even today.

Shock 'tigers' and awe 'flies'

Five-year anti-graft plan shows leaders' determination to curb corruption by building up institutionalized cages for power

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Professional farmers needed for the fields

'Who will farm in the fields?" The central government raised this important question in the statement issued after Central Rural Work Conference on Tuesday, clearly highlighting the essential role of people in rural work.

Defiant Abe a real danger

No matter what pretexts Japanese politicians employ to justify it, the Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of Tokyo is a highly symbolic reminder of Japan's militarist past, because it enshrines 14 convicted Class-A war criminals such as Hideki Tojo and other war criminals among Japan's war dead.

Prevent cyberterrorism

The threat of cyberterrorism has drawn increasing attention from the world community and become an important issue in the international fight against terror, an opinion piece in People's Daily said on Wednesday.

Boost to anti-corruption drive

The Communist Party of China vowed on Wednesday to fight corruption firmly and to maintain its "high-handed posture" in the next five years.

Plenum ushers in culture of science

Science and technology reform has drawn a lot of attention in the Decisions on Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reforms, issued by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee on Nov 15.