Jilin's tourism move breaks the law

TOURIST SITES with a 4A rating or above in Northeast China's Jilin province will reportedly charge visitors only half the ticket prices as long as they are registered residents of the Yangtze River Delta, the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan, for a certain period of time. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Practical environmental measure

The general offices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, China's Cabinet, recently published a document stipulating that officials must receive an audit of natural resources when leaving office.

Death and taxes may be certain, but a tax on dying certainly isn't

A MEMBER OF the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top political advisory body, recently proposed amending the inheritance tax. The Ministry of Finance has replied that the government has never collected such a tax. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Palace Museum's move can boost cultural confidence

AT A RECENT FORUM, Shan Jixiang, head of the Palace Museum, said they are working to open more areas within the museum to tourists. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Party-to-party talks for shared future

Leaders of more than 200 parties and political organizations from over 120 countries are taking part in a high-level dialogue with the Communist Party of China's officials in Beijing from Nov 30 to Dec 3. The record number of parties and organizations will exchange their experiences with the CPC and discuss the latter's concept of building a community of shared future for mankind.

Efforts of all needed to improve kindergartens

The State Council, China's Cabinet, has dispatched a team of inspectors across the country to check teachers' ethical standards and working styles. The move comes after recent media reports on "child abuse" at an RYB Education New World Kindergarten in Beijing. Although a kindergarten teacher was detained on suspicion of pricking children and two education officials have been put under investigation, the case still deserves to be viewed from both the moral and legal perspective.

Dialogues will reduce initiative's risks

The vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative evokes the ancient trading networks along the Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road, encompassing more than 70 countries and reaching beyond, connecting China's transport and communications infrastructure network across Central, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe. These regions include some of the most fragile ecological systems in the world today and some of the most dense population concentrations.

Food trucks offer food for thought

In New York, including glitzy downtown and midtown Manhattan, thousands of food trucks sell delicacies from around the world, from jianbing (Chinese crepe), hot dog, falafel, tacos, sushi and waffles to steaks, burgers, juices and desserts.

Grave concerns that DPRK crisis is getting out of hand

Unilateral countermoves by individual stakeholders have proven insufficient, and ineffective, in reining in the nuclear weapons program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as its latest missile test on Wednesday demonstrated.

Ikea displays its double standard

Ikea should stop unequally treating Chinese consumers and extend its latest recall of defective chests of drawers to the Chinese market to show it attaches the same concern to the safety of Chinese consumers as it does to consumers in North America.

Close rural-urban benefit gap to safeguard migrants' rights

ONLY 17 PERCENT of migrant workers living in Chinese cities have urban medical insurance, and the number has been on a downward trend over the past few years, according to a report. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday: