Fake prizes exploit faith in foreign awards

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION clarified on Friday that it has never awarded a prize to Haier for being a leading global brand for healthy air as it supposedly did at a seminar hosted by an organization called the Global Health Industry Alliance in Beijing on May 17. Yangtze River Daily comments:

Many cities barking up the wrong tree with their planting

ONE CITY after another has been busy planting trees in the hope of being recognized as a "forest city". However, journalists have found that some cities have been doing it in the wrong way and the "green leap forward" is just extravagance. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Peninsula peace on bumpy road

Editor's note: On May 24, US President Donald Trump called off the planned summit with Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in Singapore on June 12. Yet the United States administration later said it still wants the summit to be held. Three experts share their views on the dramatic twist in the planned Kim-Trump meeting with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Excerpts follow:

Are Chinese media making US anxious?

The China-US trade dispute reveals the US administration's growing anxiety about China's rise, which in turn has triggered the anxiety of some of its Western allies. But some Chinese scholars speculate "China threat" fears have been fueled in the West, particularly in the United States, because Chinese media have presented an exaggeratedly positive, invincible image of China to the outside world.

Natural resources merit better management

Since the launch of reform and opening-up 40 years ago, the management of natural resources and ecological environment has overlapped among various departments, leading to conflicts of interests and dysfunction. For instance, a piece of land could be regarded as farmland by the land department, while the department of forest, water or transport could see it as forest land, water conservation area or land for developing transportation.

China's rise reshapes the culture of global game

Despite various crises affecting large parts of the world, global economic growth stands at around 4 percent and is spread relatively evenly between developing and wealthy countries. In some ways, this should be a reassuring trend. But a defining feature of our times is the disconnect between economic dynamics and cultural identity.

US misconduct rooted in zero-sum mindset

The United States' growing penchant for conducting so-called freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea has prompted fears that there might be a head-on clash between the US and China.

Local governments should aim to keep their housing markets stable

THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL DEVELOPMENT has urged the local governments of some cities where the realty markets are overheated to strengthen their real estate regulations to eliminate all possible room for speculation. People's Daily comments:

Big data based future

In a congratulatory letter to the China International Big Data Industry Expo that opened in Guiyang, Guizhou province, on Saturday, President Xi Jinping said China upholds "innovative, coordinated, green, open and sharing" principles in implementing its national big data strategy.

More than taste test required for salmon

IT IS REPORTED THAT about 30 percent of the salmon in the Chinese market is in fact rainbow trout, which is a species of salmonid living in cold fresh water. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Cost-effective for insurance to cover stop smoking drugs

SHENZHEN, South China's Guangdong province, has launched a tobacco control plan that mentions listing smoking cessation medications in the basic medical care insurance. Beijing News comments: