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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Chinese ideas make waves

On Sept 11, the 71st UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that challenges the international community to improve global economic governance based on the principles of consultation, cooperation and sharing. The resolution also calls for the UN to continue to play a central role in developing consensus to address global challenges and build a human community of shared destiny in the spirit of win-win cooperation. Thus another Chinese concept has been adopted by the international community.

Virtuous high-tech circle formed

On Monday, a Long March 2D carrier rocket took off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu province. It carried Venezuela's second remote-sensing satellite, VRSS-2, which was designed and manufactured by Chinese companies with the cooperation of Venezuela.

Regulating across the digital divide

The increasing digitization of the global economy is changing how products and services are produced, distributed, and sold across borders. Technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and "smart devices" are spawning new industries, and changing old ones.

It's robots, not Chinese that are stealing American jobs

During a recent visit to a Shanghai hospital, I was amazed to see a robot, instead of a human being, dispensing medicine.

People-first development will remain the priority

"Our people look forward to better education, a more stable job, a more satisfactory income... and expect their children to grow up, work and live better," Xi Jinping said in his first news conference after he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in November 2012.

Lam highlights pragmatic solutions

On Wednesday, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor presented her first policy address since taking office as chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in July, making clear that her focus is on improving people's livelihoods.

Growing mountain of express delivery packaging needs reducing and reusing

THE TOTAL VOLUME of China's express delivery industry has been the largest in the world for three consecutive years, and it has contributed 40 percent of the growth in the global express delivery business, the State Post Bureau said on Monday. Legal Daily comments: