Local officials should not flout judicial rulings

AS EARLY AS February 2009, the local court of Tianxin in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, ruled that the Wujialing sub-district office should pay its debt of 1.7 million yuan ($246,484) plus a late payment penalty to a technological company. However, the latter did not implement the ruling until the court published the incident on its official micro blog account. Gmw.cn comments:

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Xi's visit cements better Sino-US relationship

As expected, President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump worked to forge personal trust and a working partnership during their just-concluded talks in Florida.

TV drama highlights real-life graft cases

In a luxuriously decorated big house, a prosecutor opens a refrigerator. Its cold interior, up to the farthest corner, is lined with wads of currency notes. He lifts the mattress of a double bed. Beneath it is laid out a bed of hard cash. Then he removes the front of a false wall only to encounter a neatly stacked up real wall of yuan.

A new area of experiments and hopes

Apart from accommodating the "non-capital functions" of Beijing, Xiongan New Area can also explore a sustainable development path that strikes a balance between maintaining economic growth and curbing property prices, as well as protecting the environment - which, in other words, is the new normal of moderate but sustainable and eco-friendly economic growth.

Worrying revival of imperial rescript as educational tool

In response to a question from a lawmaker about the use of the Imperial Rescript on Education, Japan's Cabinet said on March 31 that use of the rescript as material for learning is not denied as long as it is in a manner that does not violate the Constitution, the Basic Law of Education and other legal provisions.

Humanistic spirit drives Sino-Thai ties

It is a great pleasure to come to beautiful Bangkok to attend the launching ceremony of the Thai version of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China.

Lobsters at core of a tasty China-US story

Lobsters caught by fishermen on Little Cranberry Island in Maine in the United States in the morning can be had for dinner by Chinese families the next evening. The lobster and shrimp farming industry in Maine, which despite its history of more 150 years faced an uncertain future because of overcapacity, has been revitalized by Chinese consumers' strong demand.

Meeting builds on a thousand reasons to be good partners

The first meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump carries special significance because it will ascertain what sort of China-US relations the new administration in Washington wants, and whether the two sides can be on the same page over where to steer the all-important relationship in the years to come.

Trade is the essence

Predictions that China-US frictions will escalate after Donald Trump became the United States president have proved wrong. Following the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, China watchers should reflect on the tone of the interaction between the two leaders and the meetings between their nations' diplomatic and financial officials. The tone was cooperation.

Green development vital to new growth model's success

The top environmental watchdog decided to assign 5,600 inspectors to conduct a year-long investigation into the sources of air pollution in northern cities on Wednesday, just four days after the top authorities announced that Xiongan New Area will be built in North China's Hebei province, which is known for its heavy industries and perennial smog.

Rights of migrant minors

According to a demographic survey conducted by the Guangdong provincial bureau of statistics, the migrant population in the province in South China aged below 17 was 4.47 million by the end of 2013, 21.8 percent of the province's population in the same age bracket.