Axel van Trotsenburg, vice-president of development finance with the World Bank, shared his views with China Daily on China's changing role as a global development partner because of its growing stature in an evolving multilateral landscape. In an exclusive interview, he talks about China's increasingly important role on the global stage and its strengthening relations with established multilateral banks through the formation of institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
The breaking news in the United States these past days has been that the Donald Trump's campaign had only $1.3 million in cash on hand at the end of May, in stark contrast to the $42 million held by his rival Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Latest media reports show manufacturers are using used tires, cables, even plastic wastes as raw materials to make synthetic running tracks and sports fields. Along with this revelation come new suspicions and confusions. While some insist industrial wastes like used tires are prohibited from such uses, others say industrial additives, not raw materials, are mainly to blame for the "toxic" running tracks and sports fields.
In the latest violence against Chinese fishermen, the Indonesian navy detained one Chinese fishing boat in China's traditional fishing grounds near Natuna Islands in the South China Sea and fired at another Chinese fishing boat, injuring one of its crew members. Responding to the strong protest from China's Foreign Ministry against the June 17 incident, Indonesia argued that its navy had acted to "maintain its maritime sovereignty".
REPORTS SHOW that among civil servants, the percentage of leaders or officials at administrative levels is distortedly high. A comment in China Youth Daily calls for deeper reform to change that:
FOR THE FIRST TIME, 20 farmers have been admitted to Yangling Vocational and Technical College in Northwest China's Shaanxi province to receive full-time education over the next three years. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
MANY UNIVERSITIES have been complaining since March about the rising cost of using data from China National Knowledge Infrastructure, or CNKI.net, a digital platform of knowledge resources. Some lawyers suspect CNKI.net is abusing its "monopoly" in academic papers' collection and could be violating the Anti-Monopoly Law. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
New Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled to make transit stops in Miami and Los Angeles in the United States during her nine-day overseas trip that will also take her to Panama and Paraguay. The overseas trip starting on Friday will be her first since taking office more than a month ago.
Some mini-vegetable markets were recently shut down in Beijing and some breakfast sellers "persuaded" to "go home". After Beijing launched a new campaign to "free the municipality of non-capital functions" earlier this year, such incidents have been reported from many communities, with many residents complaining about the inconvenience they have caused. Even People's Daily has said it's not right to shift vegetable markets away from residents.
Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, courted controversy last week for saying that many fake products are better than branded goods. His comment seemed to be part of his fightback after Alibaba was dropped from the anti-counterfeiting coalition and widely criticized for being a "platform" selling fakes.
Weeks after a central government inspection team completed an extensive survey of environmental protection in North China's Hebei province, the central authorities have reportedly decided to dispatch environmental ombudsmen to several other provinces for a new round of inspections.
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