Sokon unit buys US car assembly plant for $110m

SF Motors, an auto company in southwestern China's Chongqing, has signed an agreement with US heavy vehicle and contract automotive manufacturer AM General to buy the latter's commercial assembly plant, or CAP, for $110 million.

China-US dialogue displays shared will to work together

The Korean Peninsula, the South China Sea, terrorism, military-to-military cooperation ... the list goes on.

Vital to lower institutional costs

When meeting a delegation of business leaders from the United States in Beijing on Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang said China will gradually expand its market access and further optimize its business environment to raise the competitiveness of the country's economy.

Spiral of silence sets the stage for fleecing a gullible audience

A CELEBRITY "DOCTOR", who promotes "medicinal products" in TV advertisements by claiming they are able to cure many chronic diseases, has been exposed by People's Daily as being a performer rather than a medical professional. Ifeng.com comments:

Legal precedent profits e-commerce

A MAN WAS RECENTLY found guilty of running a website that helped online shops falsify the number of transactions they made in order to fool people into believing they were trusted by consumers. That is the first time someone has been punished for this kind of crime in China. Beijing News comments:

For demographic balance, boosting birth rate de rigueur

CHINA'S WORKING AGE population, namely people aged between 15 and 59, reached its peak in 2010, said Cai Fang, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in a recent speech. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

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The dark side of voting in elections

According to an unpublished "kitchen table survey", conducted before last November's presidential election in the United States, about 95 percent of the predominantly Hispanic members of one of the US' largest domestic unions preferred Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton to her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Yet less than 3 percent of that union's members actually planned to vote. The reason came down to economics.

'Safe' cars for women won't go down the tube

Editor's note: The decision of local authorities in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, to run some women-only coaches on several metro lines as a pilot project has sparked a public debate. Three scholars share their views with China Daily's Wu Zheyu on the issue. Excerpts follow:

Thucydides's Trap does not have to be inevitable

Harvard University professor Graham Allison had a question for me when I chatted with him last week about his new book: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

MSCI signals investors have confidence in Chinese market

Global stock indexes provider MSCI's announcement on Tuesday that it will include 222 large Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies into its widely followed Emerging Markets Index is a welcome move that caters to the needs of international investors and reflects their rising confidence in the Chinese economy.

NPC's rule scrutiny welcome

In a letter of request to the country's top legislature in May 2015, the China Construction Industry Association claimed a regulation promulgated by Beijing, Shandong province and other regions in recent years goes beyond the scope of local legislative authority and should be repealed.