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Time to make the best of carbon trading

Since the Kyoto Protocol, the idea of trading carbon emission quotas has been generating high hopes for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. During the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, last month, China's special representative on climate change Xie Zhenhua said the country's carbon market is near completion and will be probably the world's largest.

Easing Beijing's burden a long-term process

Editor's note: Tongzhou, Beijing's new administrative sub-center, will receive its first batch of "newcomers" and officially start functioning on Dec 20. An estimated 400,000 people are expected to shift east of Beijing to Tongzhou. Two experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang and Liu Jianna on what the administration's shift means for Tongzhou and Beijing. Excerpts follow:

Powerful future awaits digital economy

The theme of the 4th World Internet Conference, held recently in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, "Developing digital economy for openness and shared benefits - Building a community of common future in cyberspace", points to the direction of future global economic development, which among other things requires advanced technologies and a smarter production system.

Compromise allows UK's divorce from EU to progress

Within six months, Brussels and London have more or less sorted out the initial terms of their divorce and beginning January, the talks will focus on how to spend the two years of transitional period and what the future relations will be like.

Parties must say no to war and chaos on Peninsula

As the only party to come up with a relatively comprehensive prescription for ending the protracted wrangling over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear weapons program, with its proposal that the United States and the Republic of Korea suspend joint military drills and Pyongyang to suspend nuclear/missile tests, Beijing is trying everything possible to make sure that war and chaos do not materialize on the Korean Peninsula.

Ministry right to turn up the heat on local governments

Over the past couple of days, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has sent out 839 groups on fact finding missions to determine how heating is supplied in Beijing, Tianjin and 26 cities around the two municipalities.

New disclosure rules will seal loopholes in the Charity Law

THE MINISTRY OF CIVIL AFFAIRS published draft provisions regarding the information disclosure of charity organizations for opinions on Friday. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

Camera maker complicit in breaking law

FROM THE MOMENT you step into a restaurant, a mall or other public venue, your every move may have been broadcast on the Internet. One blogger has challenged this practice, by criticizing a smart camera maker for broadcasting video from various surveillance cameras. China Central Television commented on Sunday:

Ban on fireworks for gala good for health and safety

THE AUTHORITIES in Beijing and Tianjin have banned the setting off of fireworks in urban areas during Spring Festival, which next year falls in mid-February. Thepaper.cn commented on Sunday:

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The year signaling a new booming period

The world economy is showing definite signs of recovering growth. The International Monetary Fund has revised up its forecast for global growth in 2018 to 3.7 percent. In China, however, there is a debate on whether the country's economy has entered a new booming period of growth. Market watchers, with a bit anxiety, are waiting for the annual Economic Work Conference to set the tone for the government's take on the economy next year.