Law must stipulate what electric cars are allowed on road

ON MONDAY, the local police in Baoding city, North China's Hebei province, launched a special campaign to regulate the illegal electric cars on road. Thepaper.cn comments:

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Resolve to shift to clean fuel must not waver

Editor's note: The government's plan to use gas, instead of coal, for public heating in North China to reduce air pollution has caused a shortage in natural gas supply in northern cities, leaving thousands of residents shivering in the winter. This has sparked a debate on the unprecedented campaign to replace coal with gas as well as on what China's future energy policies should be. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Cross-Straits discord may continue next year

Official exchanges between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have remained frozen since Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen refused to recognize the 1992 Consensus after taking office in May 2016. And there is no sign of official talks resuming any time soon, as Tsai seeks to ally with the United States and Japan, instead of taking steps to improve cross-Straits ties.

Have we found the Holy Grail of genetic engineering?

Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry.

One step forward, one step back for global carbon emission cuts

The divergence of policies and priorities of the world's two largest economies in combating climate change stood in stark contrast on Monday. In Beijing, where improving air quality has become a major policy priority, China's top economic planner unveiled plans for a national carbon market - likely the world's largest - where enterprises can trade their emissions credits. It is another bold step the country is taking to deliver on its Paris Agreement promises.

UN Security Council vote was more than an insult

Rather than blame the rest of the United Nations Security Council members for opposing its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Washington should reflect on the significance of it having to use its veto instead of pettily calling it, as US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley did, "an insult" that "won't be forgotten".

Tough environmental protection task

Environmental protection volunteers exposed two illegal hazardous waste dumps in the suburbs of Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province, on Monday. Thousands of cubic tons of carbon blocks and waste residue from the electrolyzing of aluminum have been buried under a thin layer of earth or piled up in the open air in two valleys near a village of 2,700 residents.

Woman should not be pinned to her past as the poor girl in the photo

SU MINGJUAN, who became an overnight sensation when she was a young girl because of a photo showing her studying in a cold and shabby classroom in her hometown in a poverty-stricken county in East China's Anhui province, was elected deputy secretary of the Anhui provincial committee of the Communist Youth League on Friday, provoking much comment. Guangming Daily commented on Tuesday:

Bursting bubbles bring billionaires grief

ON MONDAY NIGHT, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange announced its decision to adjust the list of stock indexes, and le.com, a domestic video website that has been mired in a debt crisis for months, was expelled from its startup board. China Youth Daily comments:

Beijing accelerates development of self-driving vehicles

BEIJING HAS RELEASED a guideline for road tests of self-driving cars, which shows the authorities' support for technological innovation through systematic innovation. The Beijing News comments:

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