A community of shared future with Pakistan

China-Pakistan relations are a model of state-to-state relations. As President Xi Jinping put it, China-Pakistan relations should be a model of good-neighborly friendship, a pillar of regional peace and stability, and a benchmark for international cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative.

Connectivity holds the key to a better, brighter future

Europeans, in general, blame Wall Street's greed for the 2008-09 global financial crisis. A decade since the crisis wreaked havoc across the world, the US administration's "America First" policy is once again causing worldwide turmoil.

EU's aid to Iran shows US alone in opposing deal

The European Union's decision to give Iran more than 18 million euros ($20.6 million) in development aid to counter the effects of US sanctions is a courageous as well as welcome move.

Didi needs to ensure customers' safety otherwise they will shun it

A 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was found dead on the side of a remote mountain road in Yueqing, East China's Zhejiang province, on Sunday. In her last known contact she complained to the customer services of Didi, a car hailing company, that she was being verbally harassed and threatened by the driver of the car she had hired. The male driver was detained by the local police hours later on suspicion of murder. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Poverty alleviation task not to end in 2020

IN 2016, the central government removed 28 counties from its poverty county roster, and the number of applicants last year was almost five times that. The departments responsible to review and approve the applications must act objectively and prudently. The approach of the 2020 deadline should not make a difference in their criteria. People's Daily comments:

Wall between pupils casts shame on a local government

AFTER ITS CAMPUS was claimed by the local government, a private elementary school opened for migrant workers' children in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, was instructed to move to a nearby public school on Sept 1, which has incurred opposition from the parents of the children attending the public school. To soothe their anger, the education bureau of Suzhou has ordered an iron fence to be built on campus to separate the private school from the public one. Beijing News comments:

Groundless to accuse Beijing of stalling Korean progress

United States President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that his secretary of state is postponing a planned visit to Pyongyang until the "trading relationship with China is resolved". Considering the lack of progress in China-US trade talks, that could be quite a while.

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How to clean up bike-sharing firms' mess

Editor's Note: Mobike, one of the biggest bike-sharing startups, recently launched a complete bicycle maintenance measure and began recycling the "lite 1.0 version" of its bikes with poor durability. Although building a circular economy was the original goal of the bike-sharing startups, thousands of broken-down bikes abandoned on the streets show the huge waste of resources. Two experts share their views on how to solve this problem with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Who'll be Japan's conscience-keeper after Akihito abdicates in April?

Living in anguish in his final years, late Japanese Emperor Hirohito was haunted by talks holding him responsible for Japan's war with China (and other countries) before and during World War II, as his close aide Shinobu Kobayashi wrote in his diary.

US itself to blame for trade deficits

Holding China responsible for the US' trade deficits and unemployment, US President Donald Trump has launched what could turn into a full-blown trade war against China, by imposing high tariffs on Chinese products and strictly restricting technology transfer. But data show the US itself is responsible for its trade deficits, and cannot solve the problem without undergoing a radical economic transformation.

Google intensifies efforts on mainland

International technology giant Google Inc is accelerating efforts to rebuild its presence in the Chinese mainland market by introducing more of its parent company's Alphabet Inc's business into the local market.