Spirit of endurance matters, so does skill

With the Chinese women's volleyball team grabbing the 26th and last Olympic gold for the country in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, "the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team" seems to have become a favorite term for many. There is also a debate raging over the connotations of the term and its relevance to the development of sports and a wider range of areas.

Rio Olympics prove money can buy success

The medals have been handed out, the flags raised and lowered for the last time, and in Britain the newspapers have indulged in a frenzy of praise after Team GB came second in the medals table, behind the United States but crucially, ahead of China.

Suu Kyi's visit shows neighbors will continue to be friends in new era

Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi wound up a five-day visit to China on Sunday. As the outside world is eager to know how the two neighbors will recalibrate their relations now that the Southeast Asian country has undergone a political transition, her second visit to China in two years, drew much regional and global attention.

Reading has a lot of write choices

My invitation to attend this week's Beijing International Book Fair included a request to participate in a survey aimed at charting the reading habits of foreign authors.

This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 23, 1984, in China Daily: Robot salesmen attracted scores of eager young customers to a special advertising display organized this month by the Fuzhou Pencil Factory at Shanghai's first department store.

Hot topic

Nearly 30 percent of Chinese credit card holders polled in a survey say they would like to pay off their balances in installments.

Looking ahead

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

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Three-way meeting in Tokyo called 'a victory'

The last-minute settlement of the schedule for the annual China-Japan-ROK Foreign Ministers' Meeting has been called "a victory" in light of new frictions that have arisen since the previous meeting in March 2015.

Central bank official assumes IMF post

Zhang Tao, deputy governor of China's central bank, formally assumed his duties as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Monday, an appointment that analysts said showcases China's rising influence in the field of global financial governance.

Rules detailed for social organizations

Under the central government's new guidelines for social organizations that were released on Sunday, China will lower the threshold and simplify registration procedures for such groups, with the goal of promoting their "healthy and orderly" development.

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