With greater efforts, there's still time to avoid middle-income trap

CHINA MUST AVOID falling into the middle-income trap, Premier Li Keqiang cautioned when delivering this year's Government Work Report to the National People's Congress in Beijing earlier this month. Beijing Youth Daily said on Wednesday:

New regulations covering electric bikes required

XU JIA'AI, director of the public security department of East China's Zhejiang province and a deputy to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, has called for better management of electric bicycles. Beijing Times said on Wednesday:

Supervision of take-away food business has to tighten

ABOUT 30 ONLINE take-away food businesses including ele.me and Baidu Waimai were inspected recently, only about half of them passed. Some of the restaurants that failed the quality inspections were registered as management companies to avoid the hygiene scrutiny. Beijing News commented on Wednesday:

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Why China needs to champion free trade

In the decade to come, China has a huge opportunity to seize the initiative and become an architect of free trade.

More investment options would check home prices

China's banks, financial regulators, government officials and homeowners can all perhaps breathe easier. Despite surface appearances, China's over-heated property market will not collapse as the US housing sector did in 2008, taking much of the world economy down with it. Yes, there are danger signals in China's enormous real estate industry. China's problems are real and need addressing, but the differences with the United States are large and decisive.

Policy is to consolidate ties with Taiwan

At a press conference on Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang again addressed the importance of 1992 Consensus, echoing top leader Xi Jinping's remarks earlier this month at a panel discussion on the significance of the consensus, which explicitly describe the nature of cross-Straits relations and are crucial to the long-term development of cross-Straits ties.

Consumers' rights are essential part of supply-side reform

With much fanfare, China's state broadcaster China Central Television named and shamed a bunch of wrongdoers, particularly some e-businesses, in its annual gala to mark World Consumer Rights Day, which fell on Tuesday this year.

Rather than threats, peninsula needs talks

The vicious circle at work on the Korean Peninsula, whereby each side blames the other for being provocative while speaking and acting provocatively, is dangerous. Not just because the spiral is proving hard to break, but because the saber-rattling and verbal sparring are pushing it to ever greater extremes.

Judicial center will serve all

The media in some surrounding and Western countries have responded with alarm after Chief Justice Zhou Qiang announced to the top legislature on Sunday that China will set up an international maritime judicial center.

Greater say for universities in own affairs can help graduates suit the job market

ZHENG QIANG, president of Guizhou University in Southwest China's Guizhou province and a deputy to the National People's Congress, has called for more and better universities to be built up in China to develop more talent. However, the poor employment records of some existing universities should be addressed first, said Beijing Youth Daily on Tuesday: