The old growth engines of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are decelerating. The new ones are predicated on deeper economic ties with the Chinese mainland.
The 60-day advance booking period for train tickets during next year's chunyun period (the Spring Festival travel season) will make it easier for some people to travel home for the all-important annual family get-together and return to work, but it may not bring convenience to all.
Comment on "Beware of suicidal minds online" (China Daily, Dec 6)
Real destitute people will find it difficult to get alms if people start acting as beggars to deceive others into helping them, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:
The "59 smiles" captured on a smartphone by an aged woman in Wuhan, Hubei province, in about six months tell a big social story. The smiles captured by the woman are of the 59 people who offered her seats on buses. Everybody can be an ideal citizen, because in many cases a friendly smile is all that is needed to build a better world, says an article on youth.cn. Excerpts:
China has achieved remarkable economic growth since it launched reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, but the need to improve the quality of its economic growth has become urgent.
Restaurants and bars are always full in Tokyo in December, as it is the time for year-end parties and people tend to go drinking with their colleagues or clients for fun.
SHOULD THE SALE OF LOTTERY TICKETS make money for the operaters and related departments?
Theoretically, government lotteries are to raise additional funds to support public welfare; but in reality lottery agencies become interest groups that derive huge profits from the process. It is urgent to strengthen supervision over the lotteries so that they serve public welfare instead of their own selfish interests.
In the first three quarters of this year, China's GDP grew by 7.4 percent, or 0.1 points short of the planned annual target of 7.5 percent. The housing market experienced an unprecedented decline in prices and sales in the country's 70 major cities, implying that the pressure on economic growth is historically high, because a chilly housing sector could have massive repercussions on the national economy.
Counterfeit products can still make it to Chinese markets by playing on words, mostly clumsy reworking of famous brand names or logos, or "creative" renaming, that is, labeling 100 percent "made-and created-in-China" goods as foreign products.
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