ROK should reflect rather than playing blame game

In all, nearly 11 tons of cosmetics imported from the Republic of Korea were found to be substandard and denied access to the Chinese market by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine in November.

Clarifying resistance years

The Ministry of Education has said the textbooks for middle and primary schools must be revised from the 2017 spring term, so that the time span for China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is increased from eight to 14 years.

Guidelines for police good move to standardize law enforcement

ON MONDAY, the Ministry of Public Security held a collective video training conference for millions of police nationwide. The training covered how they should behave while doing their duties, such as what to do when checking a citizen's ID card and what to do when people take videos of them enforcing the law. Beijing News comments:

McDonald's not retreating from China

FAST-FOOD GIANT MCDONALD'S CORP on Monday announced the sale of 80 percent of its Chinese mainland and Hong Kong operations to a consortium including China's CITIC Ltd and the Washington-based private equity company Carlyle Group LP in a deal worth up to $2.1 billion. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Students ought to be praised, not punished

TWO STUDENTS in the Middle School Affiliated to Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, complained to the local authority that the school did not obey the regulation to stop classes when there was a red alert for smog. The two students were later called to talks with school staff, one of them missing a day's class. The Paper.cn commented on Wednesday:

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Allow 'great meeting' to produce great results

Many businesspeople outside the United States have been worried about the potential havoc the incoming administration in the United States may cause to global trade and the possibility of souring relations with the world's second-largest economy, given some of the comments made by Donald Trump and his team members during and after his presidential election campaign.

More inputs into core tech

China produces more than 40 billion ballpoints annually, but nearly 90 percent of its ballpoint pen nibs and refills are imported.

End forced demolitions as they make a mockery of rule of law

"RULE OF LAW? It sounds like a joke to me." "Our power is beyond the law, and when my boss wants to demolish your house, we will do it." Such are the quotes of two officials from Zixi county in East China's Jiangxi province who forcibly demolished the house of a local farmer. The officials have already been held accountable for their action, Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

Awarding scientists for their work not titles

PRESIDENT XI JINPING presented the Preeminent Science and Technology Award to Tu Youyou, co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and Zhao Zhongxian, a physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who has spent four decades working on superconductors. China Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:

False ratings an unwanted link in TV profit chain

COMPANIES MEASURING viewing figures have been in cahoots with TV stations and content producers for more than a decade to falsify the ratings of programs. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:

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