Govts wrong to reveal residents' personal info on their websites

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, the personal information of local residents, from their identification card numbers and mobile phone numbers to addresses, are revealed in a host of documents that can be viewed on various government websites across the country. Such personal information, including that of people receiving financial aid, has been disclosed online without their consent. Legal Daily commented on Saturday:

Laudable plan to meet pension obligations

WITH ITS AGING SOCIETY putting a strain on pension payments, China will transfer some State assets, including shares of State-owned companies and financial institutions, to the country's social security fund, according to a document issued by the State Council, China's Cabinet, on Saturday. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

Handsome rewards can prompt people to report pollution

THE GOVERNMENT of Jingjiang, East China's Jiangsu province, has reportedly rewarded a man 300,000 yuan ($45,000) for his tip-off about soil pollution over two years ago. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

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19th Party Congress a vision for the future

China is entering a new era in which it is paying more attention to narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, and addressing the regional and rural-urban development imbalance and inadequacies, and according greater priority to the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. Thus, a new awareness and sensibility for sustainable development is emerging, and a new approach to the needs of civil society is growing rapidly.

Systemic change to boost anti-graft fight

Editor's Note: The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approved some amendments to the Party Constitution, including the Party disciplinary inspection system. Du Zhizhou, deputy director of the Clean Governance Research Center at Beihang University, explains to China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang the importance of those amendments for society. Excerpts follow:

Spending less time on internet could reduce depression

Eight young Japanese women - three of them high school students - spoke through Twitter about their depression or intention to die. Their tweets caught the attention of Takahiro Shiraishi who tweeted back "let's die together", saying he, as a "hanging pro", could assist people to commit suicide. He has admitted that he invited them, one by one, to his apartment between late August and mid-October, and killed and dismembered them all. A young man who went to his apartment looking for one of those women met the same fate at Shiraishi's hands.

Xi Jinping And His Era

On the morning of Oct 18, Xi Jinping, standing behind a lectern in the Great Hall of the People, delivered a report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The 32,000-character report, the most significant of its kind in recent decades, drew more than 70 rounds of applause from delegates.

Convergence remains on approach to DPRK issue

After US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that China agreed that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea cannot just freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for benefits, China clarified on Thursday that this was not a change to its position that its "dual suspension" proposal is the best "first step" for defusing the crisis.

Growing global influence

The diplomatic activities of President Xi Jinping after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, from meeting visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and US President Donald Trump to attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting and paying state visits to Vietnam and Laos, have opened a new chapter in China's diplomacy and enhanced China's global influence, appeal and charisma.

Right for feasibility of cities' subway plans to be assessed

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION, China's top economic policy planner, vetoed the planned construction of a subway in a provincial capital in the west of China recently. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

Jiangsu's move, one to take note of

MANY CITIES in East China's Jiangsu province have adopted a policy that allows people older than 50 years old to apply for special cards that enables them to use karaoke venues at discounted prices. Hbnews.cn comments: