The two-day peace symposium for representatives from Israel and Palestine that started in Beijing on Thursday couldn't have come at a more timely moment given US President Donald Trump's decision to ignore UN resolutions and unilaterally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Dec 6.
HUANG WEI, assistant chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, appeared in court in Beijing on Tuesday, as a representative of the top securities watchdog in an appeal hearing. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
THE NATIONAL BUREAU of Statistics has released the latest data on property prices in 70 big and medium-sized cities. The prices of new houses in 11 key cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, have all fallen slightly since last year. Beijing News comments:
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:
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:
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.
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry.
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.
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".
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.
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:
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