Greater social fairness

China's household registration system, or hukou, has long separated urban and rural citizens in a discriminative manner. Public voices criticizing this traditional dual system and calling for it to be abolished have been much heard in the past decades. The groundbreaking reform is ready to put this hukou duality to an end.

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Indigenous software for phones needed

The number of Internet users in China reached 632 million in June, with 46.9 percent of the population covered by the Web, and smartphones are the most frequently used tool to access the Internet, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. A smartphone may be the most convenient medium to reach the "virtual world", but by using it a netizen exposes his/her personal information to theft.

Caging top 'tiger' invites call for deeper reform

Lay foundation for rule of law

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Avoid fast food, protect health

From the Chinese press

Soldiers must not cheat their way through training

Latin America on Japan's radar

Different from his predecessors, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been conducting his diplomacy with a high profile since taking office for the second time in December 2012.

Hospitals need more than mortality ceilings

A recent draft of the standards on medical services capabilities issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission has proved controversial, as the commission has set some specific "mortality ceilings" for China's Class-2 and Class-3 general hospitals.

Caging corrupt 'tigers'

FOR MONTHS, AS HIS RELATIVES AND FORMER underlings were caught up in the anti-graft dragnet one after another, the fate of Zhou Yongkang was at the center of a guessing game.

Nobody can stand against the law

Hidden rules are different; some are severe violations of the Constitution and Party discipline, while some are slightly lighter; we can see social progress in the elimination of those that are overdue. People say there used to be a hidden rule that members of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee are immune to legal and disciplinary penalties, but the investigation of Zhou has shown the alleged hidden rule doesn't actually exist.

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New model to boost South-South ties

President Xi Jinping visited four countries in Latin America between July 15 and 23, where he held decisive bilateral and multilateral meetings.