With more than 16,000 kilometers of high-speed rail network so far, China has 60 percent of the world's total. Based on such a miracle, achieved within about ten years, Premier Li Keqiang has been going all-out to sell the country's high-speed railway capabilities around the world during his overseas trips.
Japan lost the war against the allied forces 70 years ago, but it should not lose its conscience on the question of the war 70 years later. This is what Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a Japanese reporter on Sunday at a sideline news conference of the annual session of the National People's Congress.
The changed emphases contained in the Government Work Report presented by Premier Li Keqiang to the ongoing session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Thursday, indicate that the economy still has the potential to be in good shape, says a People's Daily article.
HOWMUCH DOES THE GOVERNMENT SPEND a year on overseas travel by officials, their business cars and business banquets? Asked the question at the National People's Congress, Minister of Finance Lou Jiwei said there is no clear accounting, and he "roughly estimated" the spending as more than 40 billion yuan ($6.4 billion) dismissing the popular estimation of 300 billion yuan as "nonsense". Comments:
"ONE OFMYFAMILY MEMBERS FAILED TO GET A CAR plate number for three years too," said Yang Chuantang, minister of transport, when answering a question about the license plate lottery policy of Beijing. In the discussions and interviews at the ongoing National People's Congress, several ministers were asked questions concerning the difficulties people experience in their daily lives, and they have answered they have similar problems. Comments:
A reporter from Xinhua News Agency, has aroused hot discussions recently because she released an interview and a reporter's log with famous actor Chen Daoming during the ongoing sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which were written from the view of a fan instead of a professional journalist. Comments:
The anti-corruption drive launched by the top leader Xi Jinping and top graft-buster Wang Qishan since the 18th CPC National Congress has produced powerful shockwaves that have spread throughout the Chinese political system and society. It has also been associated with the serious economic slowdown, as the country's GDP is decelerating quickly from its breakneck growth of recent years.
The high suicide rate among the rural elderly is a trend that is likely to continue for a while, given China's aging population and urbanization drive, if it remains a left-behind social problem.
Whether or not to limit the number of individual tourists from the mainland is a question the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is mulling over.
China and Japan will renew their security talks and consultations on their ties and regional affairs this month. The talks have been stalled since the Japanese government illegally "nationalized" part of the Diaoyu Islands in 2012.
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