Unique role in building strong bond

Editor's note: The China-Africa Media Forum hosted by the Information Office of the State Council and co-organized by Xinhua News Agency and Independent Media Group of South Africa was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday. Below are excerpts from the speeches of the participants.

Great potential for media cooperation

Working together for better mutual understanding

We must never lose sight of our role as society's watchdogs. We must hold our communities, our nations, BRICS, to account. We tell the stories wanting them to succeed, it is only right that we be vigilant in exposing cases where these stories have not succeeded because of individual greed or the corruption of officials.

Sickness in US society will not be easy to cure

For a long time, people in the United States took pride in the belief that one of the things that made their nation great was a system that was designed to encourage principled disagreements so that people could achieve consensus through reasoned debate.

Wrong to morally kidnap stars

A social media post demanding Wu Jing, the actor-director of the popular action film Wolf Warrior II, donate more than he already had in the aftermath of the recent Jiuzhaigou earthquake in Southwest China's Sichuan province, has sparked fierce online debate about whether it is reasonable to morally blackmail celebrities to donate money after a natural disaster.

Heartwarming tale of customers fulfilling their legal responsibility

WHEN A MAGNITUDE 7 EARTHQUAKE hit Jiuzhaigou county in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Aug 8, Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, also felt the quake. In one of shopping malls in the city, many customers who were eating fled without paying for their meals, thinking an earthquake was hitting the city. Yet the next day many of them returned to pay. Thepaper.cn comments:

Decentralization bitcoin's Achilles' heel

THE PRICE OF THE DIGITAL CURRENCY BITCOIN hit $4,045 on Sunday, almost 3.23 times its exchange value early this year. Economic Information Daily commented on Monday:

Kid's desert walk exploitation, not character building

A 42-YEAR-OLD TV ANCHOR shared his 4-year-old daughter's physical exercises and willpower training on his micro-blog account, after taking her on a 76-kilometer walk through a desert in Gaotai, Northwest China's Gansu province, over four days. People's Daily comments:

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China's political system enjoys an edge

In the years immediately after the end of the Cold War, Western scholars were quite confident that Western-style "democracy" would eventually triumph over all other political systems, with Francis Fukuyama's book, The End of History and The Last Man, being a case in point.

People's health is indeed wealth for nation

Editor's note: The central leadership has taken several measures to promote sports and the sports industry to exhort more people to play sports or exercise regularly to lead a healthy lifestyle, because people's health is vital to the economic and social development. Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily. Excerpts follow:

Commission to improve financial security

The recently established Financial Stability and Development Committee under the State Council, China's Cabinet, is another important move to strengthen the country's financial security and help the People's Bank of China, the central bank, to better manage macro-prudential affairs and prevent systemic risks.