Sick desire for ivory must be removed from people's hearts

ZHOU FEI, head of the Wildlife Trade Programme of the World Wildlife Fund China, called Sunday "a day to be inscribed into history" after a ban was introduced on the processing and selling of ivory and ivory products in China. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

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Xi thought leads to Chinese Dream

Propounding the concept of the Chinese Dream on Nov 29, 2012, soon after being elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, President Xi Jinping said the greatest dream of China and its people is the rejuvenation of the nation. And Xi, who is leading the people to realize that great dream said on the eve of the New Year that 2018 is vital to that great quest.

Ways to revitalize the agricultural sector

The rural revitalization strategy is part of China's overall strategy to build a prosperous and strong country, which also found mention in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Global economy faces two challenges

The world economy's performance in 2017 was significantly better than the previous year. According to the World Bank forecast, global economic growth is likely to reach 3.6 percent in 2017, as the economies of the European Union, the United States and Japan all showed clear signs of improvement in the third quarter with a growth rate of 2.5 percent, over 2 percent and nearly 2 percent, respectively.

China playing a bigger global role as Lehmann had foreseen

The year 2017 ended on a sad note, with an email from IMD, a top European executive school in Switzerland, saying that professor and founder of Evian Group Jean-Pierre Lehmann had passed away at the age of 72.

Nepal bans solo climbers from world's highest peak

KATHMANDU - Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Qomolangma, which is also known as Mount Everest in the West, in a bid to reduce accidents, an official said on Saturday.

Extreme cold, tight security as New York ushers in 2018

NEW YORK - Brutal weather may have iced plans for scores of events in the Northeast United States from New Year's Eve through New Year's Day, but not in New York City, where people started gathering in Times Square up to nine hours before the famous ball drop.

Man arrested over supermarket bombing

MOSCOW - A man was arrested on Saturday in connection with a St. Petersburg supermarket bombing that wounded 18 people, Russia's main domestic security agency said.

Two people killed as Iran protests spread to west

TEHERAN - Two people were killed overnight in western Iran in anti-government protests, Iran's Labor News Agency reported on Sunday. The announcement was made by Hbibollah Khojasteh Pour, deputy governor of Iran's Lorestan Province.

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Weah elected as new Liberian leader

MONROVIA, Liberia - Celebrations have begun in Liberia after former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah won the West African nation's presidential election by a wide margin.