THE AUTHORITIES recently released a document that in principle prohibits the children of stars from appearing on TV programs. This will mean popular shows such as Where are we going dad?, which features celebrities traveling with their children, will no longer be made. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
China's real estate sector, sometimes considered the world's "most important" sector in terms of its impact on the global economy, is in flux again. After a pronounced fall in 2014, housing sales have been on the rise since early 2015, largely because of policy support - including an easing of house purchase restrictions, lower interest rates and rapid credit growth. As always, the recovery in housing sales has caused prices to pick up again.
A rather remarkable turnaround has occurred in China. For a country famous for having the most comprehensive sets of policies designed to limit births, it is now introducing new policies to support parents who have a second child - from a planned tax relief to possible extension of maternity leave and expansion of free education.
The ministries of Civil Affairs, Education and Public Security will jointly start a survey on the general situation of the left-behind children in China's rural areas. After the launch of reform and opening up, many rural residents have left their homes to work in cities, leaving their underage children in the care of grandparents or to fend for themselves.
This Friday, politicians from across the world will meet at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to sign an agreement to keep global temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius, which UN members agreed in Paris in December last year.
When US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said while aboard a US aircraft carrier on Friday that the only reason the United States' presence in the region is an issue is because of China's behavior over the last year, he failed to mention what the situation was like in the South China Sea before the US increased its military presence there.
China's 6.7 percent year-on-year gross domestic product growth in the first quarter of this year, although a little lower than the 6.8 percent growth rate in the fourth quarter of last year, is still within the expected annual growth range of 6.5 to 7 percent.
MANY DRIVERS FOR RIDE-HAILING SERVICE PROVIDERS such as Didi Kuaidi and Uber reportedly went on strike on Friday, as the companies slashed the proportion of the fares they receive by half. Beijing News said on Sunday:
A VIDEO SHOWING A 3-YEAR-OLD BOY holding a metal pipe and threatening some urban patrol officers who were "bullying" his grandmother, a street vendor, recently went viral on the internet. Rednet.cn commented on Friday:
THE DRIVER OF A TRUCK that rolled over on an expressway in Central China's Hunan province was charged about 36,000 yuan ($5,600) by a roadside rescue company without being informed in advance how much it would cost to lift the truck. Xinhua News Agency commented on Saturday:
Among the global commons, the High Seas, the atmosphere, Antarctica, outer space and cyberspace, only cyberspace, is an artificial "space".
Some countries are playing up the "China threat" theory because, contrary to many foreign observers' expectations, China's economy has grown with its status on the world stage. China's economy grew 6.7 percent in the first quarter of 2016, reflecting its resilience to economic troubles across the world.
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