President Xi Jinping started his first tour of the Middle East on Tuesday, during which he will visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran. After fully assuming the country's leadership in March 2013, Xi has visited many countries, which signify China's increasingly maturing all-round diplomacy. And that is precisely why Xi's visit to the Middle East, which is also his first foreign tour in 2016, has acquired additional importance.
In a televised address on Jan 13, Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye urged the international community to strongly respond to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's recent claim of testing a hydrogen bomb.
Vietnam and the Philippines have protested against China's test flights to its newly built airstrip on Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands despite China's reiteration that the flights are within China's sovereignty.
President Xi Jinping begins a trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran on Tuesday. His trip shows China is committed to raising its relations with the three countries to a higher level and presents a golden opportunity for deeper reciprocal and pragmatic cooperation in a wide range of fields.
The death of a scientist surnamed Yang, who was seven months pregnant, at Peking University Third Hospital on Jan 11 has drawn a lot of media attention because of the dispute that has erupted between prestigious national institutions.
WITH THE EXCHANGE RATE OF the renminbi to US dollar fluctuating, many Chinese residents are keen to purchase US dollars as an investment. Investors need to get used to the market and act rationally, says a comment in People's Daily:
THE UNITED STATES and the European Union began lifting their economic sanctions they had imposed against Iran at the weekend. Beijing News praises their exemplary reconciliation, while calling for closer attention to the uncertainties they have injected into the Middle East situation.
FORTY TWO traffic accidents were caused as a result of the road sprinkling by the local sanitation department in Fuyang, East China's Anhui province, early on Thursday morning when the temperature was reported to be minus 5 degrees Centigrade.
The Middle East, a region of major strategic importance for China, is experiencing the most political and security volatility since World War II.
Despite facing numerous difficulties and challenges, such as relatively serious structural overproduction, China's economy still boasts good fundamentals with huge development potential, strong resilience and a huge room for self-adjustment.
Last year, President Xi Jinping set a target for lifting 70 million more people out of poverty in the next five years. And it is clear that strong efforts to galvanize the Chinese agencies into action are already underway.
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