Powering up with the web

A year ago, President Xi Jinping, speaking at a conference on cyber security, urged new concepts to be adopted and an innovation-driven development strategy to be unswervingly implemented to build China into an internet power.

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Mutually beneficial plan to balance Sino-US ties

The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump concluded on a positive note with the two sides agreeing on a 100-day plan to boost their relationship by taking concrete measures to balance bilateral trade.

Growth shows China's economy has resilience

China's GDP achieved a 6.9 percent growth year-on-year based on comparable prices in the first quarter of this year. From the perspective of the world economic pattern, this is an economic performance beyond extensive market expectations and its biggest effect will be to further consolidate China's status as the world's economic stabilizer and engine. Many market analysts previously anticipated that China would maintain such a status for the foreseeable future, but the first-quarter performance will further enhance their confidence in the Chinese economy.

Middle-income trap is not unbreakable

The term middle-income trap, first used by the World Bank in 2006, refers to a stage - generally, slower growth - an economy reaches after becoming a middle-income society. The middle-income trap, as such, reflects the inadaptability of the industrial development model.

Admitting what we don't know how to fix

What are the biggest problems facing humanity? A lack of education and opportunity, poverty, inequality, violence and war, and environmental degradation.

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Belt and Road forum will add to what initiative entails

The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which is scheduled for May 14-15 in Beijing, presents the world a golden opportunity to seek cross-continental development cooperation featuring inclusiveness and openness.

Rising internet influence

The outline for a national internet strategy, issued in July last year, also drew up a road map to build China into an internet power, including raising its power of discourse concerning the global governance system for the internet.

Live online shows that promote gambling bet on lax supervision

BEIJING NEWS REPORTED THAT the online platform Xingqiu is suspected of organizing gambling in the guise of live broadcasts. It recruits young women to host online guessing competitions and attract people to bet with virtual currency that must be purchased with real money. Some players have reportedly lost over 1 million yuan ($145,180) within a few months. The newspaper comments:

Should college campus be open to all?

SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, has reportedly started denying residents access to the campus and requiring its students to present valid student cards before they can enter. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:

Use of QR codes by beggars sort of a giveaway

SOME BEGGARS in Jinan, East China's Shandong province, use two-dimensional quick response codes so those passersby willing to give them money can directly transfer money to their account by means of their smartphones. Beijing News comments: