The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1990 ushered in a huge new wave of globalization.
Twenty-five years ago, Yunnan province was one of China's most isolated and impoverished regions, due to its inland location and mountainous terrain.
It is true that the Chinese economy is slowing in a way that might be making its economic transformation towards steady but sustainable growth more painful than expected.
The statement issued by leaders of the G7 industrialized countries at the end of their two-day summit on Monday contains a thinly veiled criticism of China over the East and South China seas. Western interference of such magnitude cannot possibly help resolve the issues peacefully, but only further complicate them.
A recent report published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which claims China's industrial economy still lags 100 years behind the economies of Germany and Britain, has caused a huge stir among the Chinese public.
The education authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region received reports in the run-up to the national college entrance exam that hundreds of high school graduates in neighboring Hebei province, mostly children of Party and governmental officials, were taking the exam in the region under assumed identities in order to enjoy the favorable policies extended to the autonomous regions. Comments:
The State Council, or the Cabinet, recently announced a five-year plan that includes raising the wages of teachers in rural regions and bestowing honors, which is aimed at solving the problem that rural primary and middle schools lack teaching staff. Comments:
A 47-year-old high school English teacher in Bengbu, East China's Anhui province, was reportedly downgraded from his post on Monday, for slapping a mischievous student, after the student put a sticker saying "I am a turtle, and I am not afraid of anyone" on the teacher's back and refused to remove it. Comments:
Aung San Suu Kyi, the chairperson of Myanmar's National League for Democracy, is visiting China as the head of a delegation from Myanmar from June 10 to 14 at the invitation of the Communist Party of China. As the NLD spokesman said, on her first visit to China, Suu Kyi is scheduled to meet top Chinese leaders Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang.
Democratic politics should follow mainstream opinion, and any political leader or organization that ignores mainstream opinion is doomed to failure.
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