As a country that has always valued regional peace and stability and believed in good neighborliness, China has exercised utmost restraint in the South China Sea disputes and insisted they should be resolved through peaceful negotiations.
Self-proclaimed qigong master Wang Lin has finally been placed under investigation for allegedly being involved in the kidnapping and murder of his apprentice Zou Yong a week ago.
About 212 million people on the Chinese mainland were over 60 years old by the end of last year, with nearly 40 million unable to care for themselves, according to a report on China's nursing institutions for the aged issued by the China Research Center on Friday. It also reports that China has about 5.5 million beds in nursing homes for senior citizens nationwide, 26 beds per 1,000 people, of which 48 percent are empty.
China's top copyright regulator officially announced stricter rules on Wednesday for the streaming of music, urging online music service providers to remove all unlicensed products by the end of this month. Those who fail to abide by the regulation after the due date will face serious punishments. Comments:
Movie director Chen Kaige reportedly received a stern rebuke and the demand of an apology from an official with the Chinese Taoist Association last week, because his latest movie "Taoist Priest Goes Down the Mountain" "wantonly demonized Taoism and Taoists". The association later denied the report. The dispute followed a public apology by Chinese comedian Jia Ling, who was criticized for impersonating China's legendary female warrior Hua Mulan as an incompetent cowardly woman in a recent comedy show. Comments:
A poem written by Wu Kejing, vice-president of the Shaanxi Writers Association, was recently found to be almost the same as a piece published in Shaanxi Daily in 2009 written by an official in a local county. Comments:
Pure objectivity and total accuracy is difficult to achieve in journalism. But they were almost totally ignored in cold and unsympathetic Western media commentaries on China's recent stock market crash.
For decades China has pursued policies intended to slow population growth by reducing childbearing. Slowly, attention is shifting to the dangers of super-low fertility, population decline, and rapid aging. Recent changes in population policy do not match the new demographic reality, however. Low fertility threatens to undermine China's economic success, while population policy continues to discourage childbearing. A new approach is needed and without delay.
On June 30, China submitted to the UN secretariat a report on its intended nationally determined contribution (INDC) post-2020 climate actions during Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Brussels and Paris, which will host the UN climate change conference in December. The timeframe of China's emissions peak was part of the China-US Joint Statement last November, but the INDC is a full set of green kungfu moves to realize the Chinese Dream.
The Chinese government has recently announced two surprisingly encouraging figures on the construction of housing to meet the needs of those living on the lower rungs of the social ladder.
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