Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered several important speeches on poverty alleviation that not only clarify the basic strategy and specific measures to alleviate poverty, but also provide significant methodological guidance on how to lift people out of poverty.
China's defense budget has always made headlines during the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee. This year the defense budget will increase by about 7 percent, and the military spending will account for about 1.3 percent of GDP, according to the NPC press release on Saturday.
Editor's note: At a recent forum on "China's choice at the crossroad of economic globalization" held in Beijing, some Chinese experts shared their views on the importance of China continuing its opening-up. Excerpts from their speeches follow:
During the ongoing annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, China watchers scrutinize them all - the official speeches, press conferences, policy announcements, sideline comments, personnel positioning or actions.
"No THAAD! Lotte out of China!" This is what was written on the banner held by a group of protesters in front of a Lotte-invested supermarket in the city of Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province, on Thursday.
The year 2020 is critical to the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), as the country's leadership has pledged to build a well-off society in an all-round way by then. Almost every industry has its individual (as well as collective) five-year plan with specific objectives and ways to implement it. And unlike many others, the dairy industry has a qualitative-oriented, rather than quantity-oriented, five-year plan.
Most of the world's hopes for the outcome of the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee can be summed up in three words: stability, stability, stability.
A sensational video purportedly by the Islamic State terrorist group, featuring an ethnic Uygur militant threatening to "shed blood like rivers" in attacks on Chinese targets, may or may not be what it was meant and believed to be, though some experts do see it as the "first", "direct" threat the terrorist organization has leveled against China.
Since they were first proposed in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Maritime Silk Road have captured the imagination of people around the world. And appreciable progress has been made in advancing them with various countries and regions.
THE DOMESTIC EXPRESS DELIVERY COMPANY SF EXPRESS was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange last Thursday. On each of the first four trading days, its stock had risen by the daily limit, thus making the company's founder and chairperson Wang Wei extremely wealthy. Beijing News on Thursday comments:
AFTER A VIDEO SHOWING LOCAL URBAN PATROL OFFICERS in Shanghai removing legally parked bikes of bike-sharing company Mobike was posted online, it was reported that more than 4,000 bikes, about 3,500 of which are owned by Mobike, have been impounded in the city. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:
A TEACHER in a middle school in Deyang, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, told a student to smash his smartphone after discovering the student playing with the phone in class. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
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