Kids do not read on same page at a particular age

ABOUT 79 PERCENT of some 2,026 interviewees are in favor of a classification system for children's books, while only 5.4 percent disagree, according to a recent survey on juvenile education. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

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Party's plan to provide housing for all

The just-concluded 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China reiterated that houses are for living, not for speculation, indicating that the measures to control housing prices will continue.

Courier service takes client-friendly road to growth

Editor's note: Before the "Double Eleven" (Nov 11) annual e-shopping carnival, some courier service providers have adopted measures to protect customers' information. To protect customers' privacy, the courier service providers have decided to hide part of the customers' information; and only a deliveryman using a special device fitted with QR code can scan the hidden part to get the address, cellphone number and name of the recipient. Will the move help better protect customers' information? Two experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang:

Tsai must stop playing dangerous game

By resorting to the old, tricky game of "private and unofficial" transit through United States territory, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen has made her previous "stance" to seek better ties with the Chinese mainland quite doubtful.

False notion led to wrong impression about China

It's a book that takes on conventional thinking - if not biases - held by many Americans about China, and very simply knocks it down. And it could come at no better time since US President Donald Trump will start his first state visit to China in a few days and misperceptions about China seem to be as rife in the White House as they are in average American households.

Mending of ties between China and ROK is good for region

The improvement in relations between China and the Republic of Korea is good news not only for the two neighbors but also for the region, since it signals the two sides are taking a pragmatic approach to the larger picture of bilateral ties, which will have a significant bearing on both peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the forging of regional cooperation.

Importance of care for elderly

The authorities are accelerating the building of an all-inclusive social security network and paying more attention to the psychological needs of the elderly, as the country prepares to meet the challenges of an aging society.

Time to repay the historical debt cities owe to the countryside

THE DECISION made at the just-concluded 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to revitalize the countryside marks a turning point to reverse the decline of rural areas in China as a result of its city-centered industrialization and urbanization. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Top scholars also have a duty to teach

FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES Wuhan University in Central China's Hubei province has hired six academicians and four professors to teach a basic course. Guangming Daily commented on Monday:

Fun and profits no excuse for misuse of famous names

MO YAN, THE CHINESE WRITER who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, recently posted on his micro blog account that some chicken-soup-for-the-soul quotes widely spread under his name were not by him. Thepaper.cn comments:

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