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.
Editor's note: China has made unswerving efforts to improve its human rights record. The following are some experts' opinions on the progress China has made in human rights on the social security, environmental protection and judicial reform fronts.
Echoing the US-led chorus criticizing China's reclamation and construction work in the South China Sea, Australian Defense Minister Kevin Andrews has made quite a few hard-line remarks. Canberra may be eager to prove its allegiance to Washington, but if it believes that it can help contain China by jumping on to the US bandwagon, it is wrong.
Substitute exam takers were caught sitting this year's college entrance exams in East China's Jiangxi province. A reporter, who pretended to be interested in doing such a job penetrated an organized ring, and found that they had help from collaborators within the educational department in charge of the local exams.
In a move to further lower the access threshold and simplify their approval procedures, the State Council, China's Cabinet, has stated that there will be unified registration codes and certificates for all legal persons and organizations.
At a recent meeting of the State Council, Premier Li Keqiang advocated further propelling reform to remove policy barriers to talent flow, including the hukou system, and encourage creative business startups. Comments:
Since the caps on the prices of retail medicines were lifted, the cost of buying many medicines has risen. A resident in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in Northwest China, for example, found that the price of the digoxin tablets he takes has risen from 6.7 to 68 yuan ($11) per box. Comments:
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