Tax cuts are a priority to inject more vitality into the economy

AT A RECENT FACE-TO-FACE MEETING between entrepreneurs and central government officials in Beijing, Jiang Xipei, chairman of Far East Holding Group, a technology company headquartered in Yixing, East China's Jiangsu province, said that the biggest burden on enterprises is the institutional costs they have to bear, so the government must ease the tax and fee burden on enterprises. Beijing News comments:

Govt will have to reduce cost of raising kids

A SOCIAL MEDIA POST relentlessly criticizes Zhai Zhenwu, head of the China Population Association, for a paper he wrote with a student in 2014, in which he predicted China's population growth will quickly rebound with the change to the family planning policy to allow all couples to have two children. Beijing News comments:

Domestic salmon standard can't be industry self-talking

THE FIERCE debate over a recently released standard by the China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Alliance, which classifies freshwater rainbow trout as salmon, continues. Thepaper.cn comments:

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Reform, opening-up break new ground

Reform and opening-up have been the key reason for the rise of the Chinese economy and thus the Chinese nation. It is through reform and opening-up that China has blazed a unique trail, creating new space for the development of and injecting vitality into socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Deepening reform best response to trade war

The trade war ignited by the United States poses a major risk to China's external development, which will have greater indirect and multilateral impacts in the medium and long term.

Regional plan for development must not ignore public convenience

The central government's integration plan for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province has necessitated the shifting of non-capital functions out of Beijing, in order to cure the capital's urban diseases such as traffic jams and air pollution.

Policing of investments will not benefit US

US President Donald Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act on Monday, strengthening the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to police proposals of foreign investment on the grounds of national security.

What China is doing in Xinjiang is being deliberately distorted

To foreigners, foreign media in particular, who have misinterpreted or even exaggerated the security measures China has taken in its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, we say that only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

Supervision by shining spotlight of public opinion on power-holders

SHANDONG AND HAINAN provinces have pledged to reinforce the public's supervision over Party and State organs. Changjiang Daily commented on Tuesday:

No govt green light for lawbreaking

IN A BATCH OF supportive policies recently issued by the financial work office of Hubei provincial government, the office said, apart from various kinds of subsidies and policy support, "golden seed" companies that are preparing to submit applications to be listed will be leniently punished if they are found to deserve administrative punishments for wrongful behavior. Qianjiang Evening comments:

Stop game companies exploiting vulnerability of rural left-behind kids

SEVERAL RECENT SURVEYS show children's addiction to smartphones and mobile games is becoming an increasingly serious problem, especially among rural kids whose parents work far away from home. Gmw.cn comments: