Editor's note: The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has achieved remarkable results in economic, social, cultural and human rights development over the past decades, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The following are the viewpoints of some Xinjiang officials and researchers on the region's progress:
Toshio Motoya, president of Tokyo-based land developer and operator of APA Group, is again playing his favorite game of manipulating historical evidence through a new book, which hit bookstores on Friday. In his latest book, The Real History of Japan: Japan Pride, Motoya continues to deny that Japanese troops were responsible for the Nanjing Massacre in 1937-38. He even goes further to blame Chinese soldiers for the looting and killings.
With a mixed feeling of hope, excitement and anxiety, millions of students across the country will sit the national college entrance exams, or gaokao, on Wednesday. What makes this year's exams even more memorable is that it is the 40th anniversary since they were resumed after the end of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76).
During a joint news conference with visiting Premier Li Keqiang, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany believes the European Union should fulfill its World Trade Organization obligations and be committed to seeking a solution program that accords with WTO rules and shows no discrimination against China.
A LOCAL HOMELESS PERSONS rescue station in Bengbu, East China's Anhui province, took the parents of an 8-year-old girl from Daoxian county in Central China's Hunan province to court because the parents "lent" the girl to a friend who taught her to steal and placed her under his control. On Saturday, the court ruled that the girl should be taken from the parents. Beijing News comments:
NEARLY 76 PERCENT OF JOB-SEEKING GRADUATES have faced employment discrimination on the basis of their gender, educational background, and in some cases their hometowns and astrological signs, according to a recent survey on graduate employment. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Sunday:
A FEMALE PASSENGER slapped the face of an airport employee in Tianhe Airport of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on Thursday, when the female employee refused to allow her to check in for an Air France flight because she was late. Beijing News comments:
International credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service recently downgraded China's sovereign credit rating from Aa3 to A1, which may have some negative influence on China-funded organizations issuing bonds or financing projects in overseas markets in the next few years. Moody's is one of the three dominant credit rating agencies in the world and has plenty of experience in collecting information on credit rating.
China's cyber security law came into effect on June 1, just a few weeks after the ransomware virus Wannacry hit computers across the world. Designed to safeguard China's cyberspace sovereignty and security, the law, contrary to what some foreign observers say, is not about limiting the flow of information or hampering international trade, the cyber security watchdog said recently.
In his keynote speech at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14, President Xi Jinping said "we should build the Belt and Road into a road of innovation". Xi mentioned "innovation" 15 times in his speech, which clearly showed the difference between the Belt and Road Initiative and other similar initiatives.
During China's decades-long engagement on the global stage, the ruling rhetoric from the West is that Beijing is welcomed because of its growing economic clout. But the condition is that it should not only shoulder its due share of global responsibility but also obey international rules and commitments.
In recent years, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has become a venue for some Western countries to point accusing fingers at China over sensitive regional issues, such as the South China Sea.
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