Reselling train tickets for profit is scalping

SPRING FESTIVAL TRAVEL always makes headlines with the competition for train tickets a focal point of media attention. This year, some of the e-commerce platforms have launched ticket reselling services to profit from people's wish to return to their hometowns. China Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

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Balance financial reform and stability

Chinese people find it more complicated to convert the yuan into the dollar, although the $50,000 annual quota of foreign currency a person can purchase (or exchange) remains unchanged.

AI will increasingly become normal feature

It is a world in which artificial-intelligence (AI) applications perform many tasks better than we can. Like fish in water, digital technologies are our infosphere's true natives, while we analog organisms try to adapt to a new habitat, one that has come to include a mix of analog and digital components.

Providing staff welfare is not corruption

In a recent joint circular, the General Offices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the country's Cabinet, said Party, Communist Youth League and labor union activities should be organized to ensure employees get their welfare benefits and are treated in accordance with relevant State regulations.

US and China should learn to tango rather than fight a trade war

The severe smog that shrouds Chinese cities and the traffic woes that haunt US cities are reminders of how much the two countries can learn from and help each other in tackling such issues instead of engaging in a trade war which the incoming US administration has hinted it will initiate.

Enforcing forex rules not currency control

Instead of currency control, China's foreign exchange regulator is closing some of the loopholes in law enforcement and responding to capital flight.

Drivers of new real economy

Alibaba Group and its affiliated Ant Financial contributed 23.8 billion yuan ($3.42 billion) - nearly 100 million yuan per work day - to the national coffers in 2016.

Time for courts to apply same standards in similar cases

HEBEI DISTRICT PEOPLE'S COURT in North China's Tianjin recently found a 51-year-old woman guilty of "possessing guns" and sentenced her to three and a half years in prison, even though her "guns" are usually considered toys. Days later, a county court in Central China's Henan province was found to be publicly auctioning similar "guns" on its website. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

More bricklayers for Trump's trade wall

US PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP is expected to nominate Robert Lighthizer, known for his protectionist views, to be the US trade representative. Beijing News commented on Wednesday:

Force feeding pigs unethical and unlawful

TERRIBLE SHRIEKS have been heard coming from a station in Xiangtan county in Cental China's Hunan province. The sounds of distress are from pigs, which are being force fed slurry at the transfer station to gain an extra 10 kilograms in weight before being sold. Cnhubei.com commented on Wednesday:

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