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ROLE MODEL FOR INNOVATION, HIGH-QUALITY DEVELOPMENT

[2018-02-24 07:08]

Editor's Note: The Xiongan New Area, a new economic zone in Hebei province, some 100 kilometers southwest of Beijing, will mark the first anniversary of its inception on April 1 this year. The new zone is seen as an important area of national significance after the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Shanghai Pudong New Area and a historic project "crucial for the millennium to come". Xiongan New

McCarthyism making a comeback in the US

[2018-02-23 07:26]

When we learn that Chinese students and scholars were singled out as a threat to US national security at a congressional hearing on Feb 13, what comes to mind is nothing but the return of the notorious McCarthyism.

Merkel's alarmist talk harks back to days of the Cold War

[2018-02-23 07:26]

Since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, some politicians in the West have taken a skeptical attitude toward it, and even drummed up suspicions with their outdated "China threat" rhetoric. In the latest, and unexpected example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that China must not link its investments in the western Balkans to political demands at a joint news conference with Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in Berlin on Wednesday.

Delivery companies to the fore in fight against plastic waste

[2018-02-23 07:26]

CHINA HAS IMPLEMENTED newly revised national standards for packing materials used for express deliveries, which require the delivery companies recycle their packing materials to reduce plastic waste. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Quest for quick profits is self-destructive

[2018-02-23 07:26]

DURING THE Spring Festival holiday from Feb 15 to 21, China's box office has created some noteworthy records. Monster Hunt 2 made 550 million yuan ($86.58 million) in box revenue on its opening day, breaking the record set by Fast & Furious 8, which raked in 478 million yuan on its opening day. And the combined box office revenue of three other Chinese movies hit 3.2 billion yuan in the first three days of the holiday, pushing the total box office revenue over that period up 65 percent year-on-year. Rednet.cn comments:

End Sanya's de facto monopoly by airlines during the holidays

[2018-02-23 07:26]

THIS YEAR when the Spring Festival holiday ended all the economy class tickets for flights from Sanya in South China's Hainan province to Harbin in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, which in previous years could normally be purchased for about 3,000 yuan ($476), had completely sold out, and the prices for the business class tickets that remained cost about 20,000 yuan. Beijing News comments:

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[2018-02-23 07:26]

China's soft power is on the rise

[2018-02-23 07:26]

Soft power is the ability of a country to shape other countries' views, attitudes, perceptions and actions without force or coercion. Exercising soft power, a state can attract supporters and partners towards its policies, views and actions. Its importance has been known for centuries, but the term was coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s.

Shift in focus to attain quality growth

[2018-02-23 07:26]

Shifting toward "quality growth" is now at the top of the country's policy agenda. Governments at all levels nationwide now have a quiet but resolute commitment to fostering a new growth model that corrects the distortions created by decades of double-digit growth - including corruption, pollution, rising inequality and other structural imbalances.