The media recently exposed two bases for the selling of counterfeit goods on the same day. One was a shopping mall in Putian in East China's Fujian province, which was found to be selling counterfeit shoes, cellphones and invoices among other things, the other was in the town of Duliu, in North China's Tianjin, where manufactures were producing counterfeit condiments.
THE 15-YUAN ($2.3) MEAL BOXES, which were required to be available throughout the journey on all high-speed trains, are now provided on a first-come first-served basis, according to reports. Guangzhou Daily commented on Monday:
ON SATURDAY, Central China's Henan province issued a notice extending its fireworks ban to cover all urban and rural regions. Yet two days later, it withdrew the decision and suspended the total ban because of opposition from residents and fireworks sellers. The total ban is a good idea to fight air pollution, but it requires a well thought out and practical plan for its implementation, says people.com.cn:
WITH THE APPROACH of the Chinese Lunar New Year the business of renting a girlfriend or boyfriend has emerged again. In either written or oral contracts, the price of such a deal can be up to 1,000 yuan ($160) per day. Changsha Evening News commented on Tuesday:
With US president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaching, it worries many that his ambition and stated potential actions to revive US manufacturing and employment may heighten trade frictions with China.
A new pollution problem has hit big cities like a brick in the back of the head. Not only is the air a sea of poisonous particles but also city sewerage workers have a new problem in their vocabulary - wetballs. Tens of thousands of masks unthinkingly discarded end up in sewers and stick together as balls of plastic and mucus, soot and snoot.
China is the most competitive manufacturing power in 2016, according to Deloitte research.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's just-concluded four-nation tour in the Asia-Pacific region is full of political calculation: He is trying to show Japan remains loyal to the US global alliance system and working hard to strengthen it despite its obvious decline in recent years.
News that Turkey has arrested two Chinese nationals of Uygur origin in connection with a mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year's Eve underscores the necessity and urgency for Beijing and Ankara to work more closely together to combat cross-border terrorism.
The quality of development rather than just the quantity will be given priority by the nation's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, a spokesperson recently announced.
ON SUNDAY, the Beijing municipal people's congress, the local legislature, reviewed the 2017 budget and a report on the implementation of the 2016 budget. Beijing invested 16.6 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) on fighting air pollution last year, and it plans to invest 18.2 billion yuan in such efforts this year. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
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