Since going on air on China Central Television from Monday, the six-episode political documentary, Major Country Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics, has sparked heated discussions among people while receiving rave reviews for its panoramic portrayal of China's diplomatic achievements under the leadership of the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core.
THE SANJIANGYUAN NATURAL RESERVE in Northwest China's Qinghai province is the source of the Yangtze River, Yellow River and the Lancang River, making it one of the most important sources of freshwater in the world. But illegal coal and iron ore mining in recent years has seriously damaged the environment and ecology of the reserve and its surrounding areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Beijing News comments:
THE BEIJING MUNICIPAL COMMISSION OF TRANSPORT issued a report on local parking places on Wednesday, which said by the end of last year, the city's urban districts had parking space for 3.82 million cars, while 3.84 million cars were parked at night. Beijing News comments:
A WEBSITE promoting pedophilia and inviting paid "members" has been shut down and its operators detained in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province. Police in some cities have launched a crackdown on such websites after a video of a man groping under a teenage girl's dress at a railway station in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, went viral online. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
Although the theme of the 9th BRICS Summit is "A Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future", there is likely to be some underlying tension among the five member states when they meet in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, from Sept 3 to 5.
Editor's note: Many cosplay and ACG events are being organized in China, making the subculture popular among some youths. ACG means anime, comics and games subculture, and cosplay means costume play, in which participants wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character, real or fictitious. Two experts from the animation industry share their views on the issue with China Daily's Wu Zheyu. Excerpts follow:
The Nanjing Railway Procuratorate on Monday ordered the arrest of a young man surnamed Duan for suspected child abuse. He was photographed early this month touching an 8-year-old girl's breast in the waiting hall of Nanjing high-speed railway station.
The US administration says it welcomes foreign investment, but it is politicizing Chinese foreign direct investment yet again. Perhaps the US is paranoid about Chinese FDI. An example of its paranoia about Chinese FDI was the Securities and Exchange Commission's order on Aug 9 to put an indefinite hold on a $20 million acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by a group of buyers led by Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group.
Reactions to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's latest provocation have followed the age-old script:
With the onshore yuan-dollar exchange rate breaking through the 6.6 mark on Monday, the first time since June last year, and the offshore rate also approaching 6.6, the Chinese currency has been steadily appreciating against the greenback - up nearly 5 percent since January.
A RESEARCH TEAM led by Justin Yifu Lin, an economist at Peking University and former senior vice-president of the World Bank, has suggested Northeast China's Jilin province, a heavy industry base since the 1930s, shift focus to developing light industry. Beijing News comments:
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