Canteens should rise to food delivery challenge

IN A SURVEY conducted by Beijing Youth Daily, eight of the 18 top universities in Beijing expressed their disapproval of students getting meals delivered to dormitories. This has provoked different opinions from both students and the educators, the newspaper says:

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Central, Eastern Europe's road to benefits

Editor's note: The fourth Meeting of the Heads of Government of China and Central and Eastern European Countries on Nov 24-25 holds a lot of promise. The following are some experts' opinions about how China's Belt and Road Initiative could benefit China and the CEE countries:

Safety of Chinese nationals overseas in the spotlight

Four Chinese nationals were among the victims in two separate terrorist incidents overseas last week. Their deaths highlight the increasing threat terrorism poses to the personnel safety of Chinese citizens traveling abroad.

Income tax reform can help boost growth

Policymakers have been fairly quick in cutting taxes to cushion domestic businesses against the ongoing economic slowdown. But they should also aggressively promote much-talked about reforms in individual income tax to facilitate the country's transition toward consumption-led growth.

Practical advance of robots

In the context of China's accelerated efforts to promote an innovation-driven development strategy, the three-day World Robot Conference 2015, which opened in Beijing on Monday, is expected to boost the popularization of this fledgling but booming sector in various fields.

Officials' property disclosure system should be more transparent to public

A RECENT ONLINE POST has claimed that Yang Jinsheng, Party chief of Tanba township in Wuchuan, South China's Guangdong province, owns properties, factories and hotels, which are estimated to be worth more than 268 million yuan ($43 million). Although Yang said he would resort to legal measures to respond to the accusations, a better property disclosure system for officials is what is most needed, says a column on scol.com.cn:

Students' using computers to write is natural

A SURVEY OF 500 COLLEGE students in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, who were born in the 1990s, found that about 70 percent cannot write Chinese characters very well, 83.2 percent of them attributed this to computers, smartphones and other devices. While many worry young people are losing the ability to write characters, Tang Yinghong, a psychology professor wrote in a column in Beijing News that we should adapt to new technologies:

Ambulance blocker should be punished

AFTER THE VIDEO of an off-road vehicle deliberately and repeatedly blocking an ambulance in Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, was posted on the Internet, the driver was detained by local police. He later apologized to the patient and relatives. The Peninsula Metropolis Daily offered this comment on Nov 22:

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Medium to high speed growth

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