Deepening of supply-side reform continues

In order to adapt to the economic new normal, deepening supply-side structural reform was an almost inevitable choice.

Change on cards in this Year of Rooster

During a New Year news conference in Ise, a city in central Japan's Mie prefecture, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he was not thinking of dissolving the House of Representatives for an election. He referred to this year being a Year of the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac, and said that such years "have frequently served as major political turning points".

Different analysis methods cause of friction

Recent trade frictions between China and Europe have highlighted their different approaches to addressing such issues, and in my view, this stems from the latter side's inability to properly analyze China's economy and assess China's demands.

Nuclear-free world is still illusive

The decision of Norway's Nobel Committee to award this year's peace prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, also known as ICAN, was deliberately timely.

Another sign of Trump's isolationist thinking

The United States announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing from UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural and educational agency, citing its frustration at how the Paris-based organization is run and its "continuing anti-Israel bias" as the reasons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to follow suit.

Safeguarding the people's right to health

Editor's note: The Information Office of the State Council published a whitepaper on the development of China's public health cause. The following are excerpts of comments by Chinese human rights and public health researchers.

China will continue to make its contribution

The preparations for the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China are in full swing, and the event is drawing the attention of the whole world. Not only because it will herald some new faces among the country's top leaders, but also because it will outline policies to chart China's growth over the coming years.

Good conditions to finish tasks

With the Chinese economy expanding steadily in the first two quarters, the International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for the country's GDP growth for the year to 6.8 percent, up from its prediction of 6.7 percent in April.

Just wishful thinking that Japanese firms never let customers down

MORE COMPANIES HAVE said that they have used problematic aluminum products supplied by Kobe Steel, Japan's third-largest steelmaker, which confessed last week to a decade-long data fabrication of some aluminum and copper products. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Price hikes should deliver better service

WITH NOV 11, the country's biggest shopping carnival, on the horizon, three express delivery companies have announced they are raising their prices. The other express delivery companies are expected to follow suit and raise their prices as well. Qianjiang Evening News comments:

Mandarin is now rapidly becoming a global language

KENSINGTON WADE in London, Britain's first English-Mandarin primary school, recruited its first batch of 15 students from Europe, the United States and South America recently. People's Daily comments:

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