Penalty tougher on informational leaks

A JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the management of people's personal information comes into effect on Thursday. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Crux is how much hotels can charge during exam days

TO ENSURE THEIR CHILDREN have a good rest during the four-hour noon break on the two days of the national college entrance exams, or gaokao, parents will often book hotel rooms for them. As a result many hotels in places where students sit the exams are hiking their room rates by huge amounts during the two days due to the high demand. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Li's visit raises hopes of stronger Sino-EU ties

Premier Li Keqiang began his four-day visit to Germany and Belgium on Wednesday, during which he is scheduled to attend the annual meeting with German chancellor and the 19th China-EU leaders' meeting.

The challenge of regulating courier firms

Editor's note: China is the country of the largest express delivery service industry, with 100 million parcels delivered each day on average. But the fast expanding sector is also plagued by problems such as the stealing and selling of private information, unsustainable financing, and insufficient waste recycling. Four experts share their opinions with China Daily's Wu Zheyu on how to better regulate the courier service. Excerpts below:

Right time for EU to transform words into action

Pascale Delcomminette, CEO of Belgium's Walloon Export and Foreign Investment Agency, said in a recent interview that an added advantage of her country's competitiveness is the ability to attract foreign investment. "We are a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," she said with pride in her voice ahead of Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Germany and Belgium from Wednesday to Friday, while highlighting her country' gateway position, mature market, openness and other merits.

Dialogue suggests China, Japan can find a way out of impasse

That Beijing and Tokyo both underlined the need to take each other as a potential partner rather than a threat was an important outcome of their just concluded fourth high-level political dialogue.

Obligation to not waste food

Chinese people traditionally dine out with relatives and friends during festivals, but on such occasions a lot of food can be easily wasted as people order too many dishes.

Seeds of ecological conservation awareness now need nurturing

ZHENG NAIYUAN, A RURAL TEACHER IN XIUSHUI COUNTY, East China's Jiangxi province, strived to protect the Chinese yew for years on his own. It was due to his efforts and perseverance that a county-level natural protection area was established in 2010. Zheng received a Marsh Award for International Plant Conservation from Botanic Gardens Conservation International in 2014 and he has since become quite well-known. Thepaper.cn comments:

Marriage of interests the meat of the matter

YURUN FOOD GROUP, a Hong Kong-listed meat product manufacturer that has received government subsidies of more than HK$4 billion ($510 million) from 2005 to 2015, more than 46 percent of the company's total profits over that period, is struggling to restart some 20 projects in Northeast China's Liaoning province. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:

Self-defense is more than just a 'zombie right'

ON SATURDAY, Shandong Provincial High People's Court began a retrial of Yu Huan, a 21-year-old man from Liaocheng, Shandong province, who killed a man when he stabbed four "debt collectors" who were trying to recover money his mother owed. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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