Party-to-party talks for shared future

Leaders of more than 200 parties and political organizations from over 120 countries are taking part in a high-level dialogue with the Communist Party of China's officials in Beijing from Nov 30 to Dec 3. The record number of parties and organizations will exchange their experiences with the CPC and discuss the latter's concept of building a community of shared future for mankind.

Efforts of all needed to improve kindergartens

The State Council, China's Cabinet, has dispatched a team of inspectors across the country to check teachers' ethical standards and working styles. The move comes after recent media reports on "child abuse" at an RYB Education New World Kindergarten in Beijing. Although a kindergarten teacher was detained on suspicion of pricking children and two education officials have been put under investigation, the case still deserves to be viewed from both the moral and legal perspective.

Dialogues will reduce initiative's risks

The vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative evokes the ancient trading networks along the Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road, encompassing more than 70 countries and reaching beyond, connecting China's transport and communications infrastructure network across Central, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe. These regions include some of the most fragile ecological systems in the world today and some of the most dense population concentrations.

Food trucks offer food for thought

In New York, including glitzy downtown and midtown Manhattan, thousands of food trucks sell delicacies from around the world, from jianbing (Chinese crepe), hot dog, falafel, tacos, sushi and waffles to steaks, burgers, juices and desserts.

Grave concerns that DPRK crisis is getting out of hand

Unilateral countermoves by individual stakeholders have proven insufficient, and ineffective, in reining in the nuclear weapons program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as its latest missile test on Wednesday demonstrated.

Ikea displays its double standard

Ikea should stop unequally treating Chinese consumers and extend its latest recall of defective chests of drawers to the Chinese market to show it attaches the same concern to the safety of Chinese consumers as it does to consumers in North America.

Close rural-urban benefit gap to safeguard migrants' rights

ONLY 17 PERCENT of migrant workers living in Chinese cities have urban medical insurance, and the number has been on a downward trend over the past few years, according to a report. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Local govts should cool housing market

THE CENTRAL BANK and the housing and land authorities recently convened a conference in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, on local governments' real estate policies. Only the officials from some key provincial-level regions were summoned to attend the meeting. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Wednesday:

Patent office has not been duped by fans

IMAGINE 15 MILLION people waving fans in the same direction at the same time... That idea appeared on the official website of the State Intellectual Property Office, as a "solution" to free Beijing of smog, because the person applying for a patent argues that so many people waving fans at the same time will produce a wind strong enough to blow smoggy weather away. According to the website, the applicant has passed the first step of patent application process. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

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Party set to realize Chinese Dream

Following the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping advanced the Chinese Dream as a guiding thought of governing the country. And the 19th Party Congress last month made "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" a long-term guiding political theory for the Party to follow.

Head transplant against existing law

Editor's note: Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announced on Nov 17 that a team led by him and Ren Xiaoping, a professor at Harbin Medical University, had transplanted the head of a corpse on the body of another, and hinted at carrying out the same operation on a living human. Huang Jiefu, chairman of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and former vice-minister of health, shared his views on the subject with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang and Shan Juan. Excerpts follow: