Editor's note: China's 6.7 percent GDP growth rate in the first quarter of this year may be the lowest since 2009, but it also suggests the second-largest economy is firmly moving toward sustainable growth. Following are some media outlets' interpretations of the first-quarter data:
Tuesday's opening of the huge Shanghai Disney Resort Metro station, with its cool design that blends both Chinese and Disney elements, is the latest reminder of how far Shanghai has travelled in building its subway system.
As announced by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Wednesday, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will finally make a three-day visit to Beijing tomorrow, a visit he and his government have eagerly anticipated.
Since its "return to Asia", the United States is increasingly using the South China Sea as an arena in which to wrestle with China, as indicated by its sending warplanes into the airspace near China's reefs and islands or sailing warships through the 12-nautical-mile waters around the isles in a move to escalate its military deployment in the region.
A NUMBER OF illegal blood exchanges have been unveiled in an undercover report based in the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, East China's Jiangsu province. Chinese Business View commented on Wednesday:
CHINA'S GRAIN output was 621 million tons last year, the 12th consecutive year the country's grain yield increased. That is good news. But the government should not neglect the problems that exist behind the remarkable growth, Beijing Youth Daily said on Wednesday:
A GROUP OF middle-school students in Bozhou, East China's Anhui province, refused to hand in their examination papers to an invigilator and even attacked him. The school authorities' response has been to ask the two parties to apologize to each other. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
China will replace business tax with value-added tax, or VAT, from May 1 in what is seen as a major taxation reform. The move will reduce the government's tax revenue by more than 500 billion yuan ($76.99 billion), but simultaneously it will ease the tax burden of enterprises. In this sense, the tax reform shows the government is serious about helping enterprises tide over the tough economic situation and further stabilize the macroeconomy.
In the choppy waters of the South China Sea, China and the United States are entangled in a complex power struggle. The two major powers have accused each other of "militarizing" the South China Sea disputes. In the crosshair of this power struggle is the Philippines. As China's neighbor and the US' long-time ally, the Philippines has been strategic in its unique role.
A record 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN headquarters on Earth Day on April 22. In his opening speech at the signing ceremony, which represents a milestone in humankind's efforts to fight global warming, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: "The era of consumption without consequences is over."
On Saturday I came across a Beijinger, Yu Shitong, in Mashiki, one of the districts hit hard by the April 16 earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture in southwest Japan. He was helping local evacuees as a volunteer. Some 90,000 people in Kumamoto prefecture are still living in evacuation centers.
On Saturday I came across a Beijinger, Yu Shitong, in Mashiki, one of the districts hit hard by the April 16 earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture in southwest Japan. He was helping local evacuees as a volunteer. Some 90,000 people in Kumamoto prefecture are still living in evacuation centers.
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