Harnessing the competitive streak

China's State Council recently unveiled a comprehensive blueprint for capital market reform until 2020, in which it identifies two key objectives: "to support open, fair, and integral market processes, and to protect investors, particularly the legal rights of small investors". Achieving these goals, as the blueprint recognizes, will require policymakers to weigh market autonomy against State authority, innovation against stability, investor protection against caveat emptor and the temptation of rapid reform against the need for pragmatism. Can it be done?

Partnerships unified for a cause

Today's business leaders operate in a rapidly changing landscape. Digitally empowered consumers and employees, rapidly changing technology, explosive numbers of non-governmental organizations and causes, constantly changing markets and market conditions, intense competition for talent - all these and more create a whirlwind of demands on leaders. The only constant is the pace of change and it's breakneck speed.

Letters

Use high-tech properly

From the Chinese press

Disrespect to religious practices

Deleveraging a tricky task

Government must act prudently as any wrong move in this process could cause risks to converge in its financial system

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Curb anti-intellectualism in cyberspace

I have started to use WeChat, Tencent's popular instant messaging app, to communicate with family and friends back home, and I really enjoy its convenience. But one unfortunate tendency I see is its ability to spread biased, misleading or even wrong information as people share one post after another. With just two clicks, you have shared a post someone sent you. It no longer embodies the process of reflection, composition and publishing, and the speed of forwarding is a hidden curse, as problematic posts spread at an astronomical speed.

US guilty of Iraq crisis

IRAQ IS IN REAL CRISIS AGAIN THREE YEARS after US military forces pulled out.

Getting garbage sorted

As early as 2000, eight cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, began piloting garbage sorting.

US back at foot-in-the-mouth game

On June 5, the United States Department of Defense released its annual report on China's military. On its hobbyhorse again, the Pentagon uses the 96-page report to give a misleading account of China's latest military and security development.

Marital ties in the time of World Cup

A domestic beer brand recently launched an interesting advertisement campaign. It invited a star couple to enact a mini-drama, in which a man asks his wife for a 33-day leave to watch the Football World Cup, and the latter magnanimously approves and also agrees to take care of their child during that period.

Letters

An unfair exam system