When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe committed $30 billion to African infrastructure development, it was with the intention of competing with China for influence there.
A draft of China's first environmental protection tax law, reviewed by the top legislature on Tuesday, is poised to levy taxes on four taxable types of pollution - airborne and water pollutants, solid waste and noise - while excluding household waste and such mobile pollution sources as vehicles from the tax.
XUZHOU CITY in East China's Jiangsu province has been competing for the title of a national civilized city, and the government department in charge of coordinating the city's bid recently required more than 100 local government departments to send staff to help clear the streets of litter. However, the municipal prosecutors' office openly refused. Beijing News comments:
AMONG THE SIX SUSPECTS involved in a recent telecom fraud that cost a college-bound student nearly 10,000 yuan ($1,500) and eventually her life, five of them are from Anxi county in Southeast China's Fujian province. Many telecom fraudsters have reportedly chosen the county as their base. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:
THE EDUCATIONAL authority in Changsha, capital city of Central China's Hunan province, has changed the start time for schools from 8 am to 8:30 am. It has also instructed primary schools to adjust their hours to ensure children are able to get 10 hours' sleep and one hour of exercise. It has also instructed schools to reduce the amount of homework children have to do each day. Beijing Youth Daily commented:
The G20 summit in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, offers a unique opportunity to world leaders to discuss and decide on a coordinated strategy to address the multiple challenges facing the world, such as the projected decline of world GDP growth to below the long-term average, slowing down of global trade and dwindling investment flows.
Students will be back to school or college in China as well as Western countries very soon. Children's education has become an expensive affair in developed economies and has been partly responsible for small families, often with a single child, in the West. Even in China, despite the lifting of the one-child policy, not many couples will have a second child partly because of the rising cost of education.
The international community hopes the G20 summit in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, will raise global investments and optimize the use of financial mechanisms. And given its framework, the G20 should view the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a boon for stabilizing the faltering world economy.
China's steel sector, like those in the rest of the world, faces the problem of falling demand because of the feeble global economic recovery, although measures taken by the Chinese government to eliminate overcapacity seem to be working.
A new law being deliberated by top legislators promises to strengthen environmental protection in the country by levying a national green tax on enterprises that discharge pollutants, rather than local governments being responsible for charging them fees for post-discharge treatment.
A recent report published by the China Enterprise Confederation indicates that China's top 500 enterprises witnessed a year-on-year decline in their total business revenue of 0.07 percent in the previous months of this year, the first decline since the report was launched 15 years ago.
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