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Zhang Yuanyuan is among soldiers taking an oath to perform their duties regardless of the circumstances, on Monday in Laiyang, Shandong province. China is preparing to send an infantry battalion to South Sudan on a peacekeeping mission.  Qiu Chengliang / for China Daily

Mandatory GM food labeling a step closer

Chinese lawmakers began to consider a proposed revision to the country's Food Safety Law on Monday, including mandatory labeling of all goods containing genetically modified organisms.

Nation and Digest

No judgment yet on Sony; evidence awaited

As Washington continues to lobby China to put more pressure on Pyongyang, Beijing clearly stated its opposition to any form of cyberattack but has yet to make a final judgment regarding the hacking of US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Comment

Sustaining new-normal growth

Editor's Note: As China's economy enters a new normal, what are its prospects and what measures are needed to maintain stable growth? Experts discussed these issues at a recent symposium on the theme of "Growth, Structure and Drivers", held by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The following are excerpts from two speeches.

IP Special

City turns to history to shape its future

During the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), merchants, politicians and other urban dwellers set out from Luoyang in Henan province in Central China to carry out cultural exchanges and trade.

Life

Auction with a Chinese heart

The elevator rattles as it rises to Robert H. Ellsworth's apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York. Walking from one room to another, we can hardly take our eyes from assortments of Chinese paintings, old-fashioned jade, Buddha sculptures and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) furniture.

Sports

Ali sparring with 'mild' pneumonia

Boxing icon Muhammad Ali, who has lived with Parkinson's disease for three decades, was in stable condition after being hospitalized on the weekend with a "mild" case of pneumonia, his spokesman said on Sunday.

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