Boom in e-commerce necessitates better protection of personal data

THE ANNUAL "DOUBLE 11" Singles' Day shopping gala generated sales of 213.5 billion yuan ($30.7 billion) on Sunday, breaking the record of 168.2 billion yuan last year. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Staff must set good example to students

SEVERAL VIDEOS SHOWING A STUDENT from Zhejiang University talking in an extremely rude way to a staff member of a company sponsoring the university activities have gone viral. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Chinese companies driving latest round of globalization

Editor's note: How should Chinese enterprises grasp the opportunities of going global? Qin Shuo, a popular columnist, addressed this question in a recent post. Excerpts:

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China committed to upholding global stability

China is working to steel its economy from a hostile external environment, as it engineers a transition to a more innovative, inclusive and sustainable growth model.

AI should be a global public good

Efforts to develop artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being seen as a global race, even a new Great Game.

Australia must take steps to reset ties

Editor's note: Australia has been sending mixed signals to China. While the Australian foreign minister's visit to China from Wednesday to Friday was expected to reset bilateral ties, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently said that Canberra will provide loans and grants worth AU$2 billion ($1.45 billion) for Pacific island countries for infrastructure, export and security financing, which is widely seen as an attempt to offset China's influence in the region. Two experts share their views on the direction Sino-Australian ties should take with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Excerpts follow:

100 years after its end, the lessons of WWI still need to be learned

SUNDAY MARKS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY of the armistice of World War I. The People's Liberation Army Daily comments:

No need to worry about the Chinese economy, it's on the right track

Editor's note: China's GDP growth rate was 6.5 percent in the third quarter of this year, lower than the 6.8 percent in the first two quarters, and some people have expressed worries about the state of the Chinese economy. Yan Se, vice director of Institute of Economic Policy Research at Peking University, comments:

Expo rallies support for multilateral trading

Aside from its tangible outcomes in terms of deals - a total intended transaction volume of $57.83 billion - the first China International Import Expo that concluded in Shanghai on Saturday was also tangible proof that China is continuing to open its doors and widening its market access to the rest of the world.

Volunteers lend credit to expo

THE FIRST CHINA INTERNATIONAL IMPORT EXPO, which was held in Shanghai, concluded on Saturday. During the expo, more than 5,000 volunteers did a good job promoting China's image. Thepaper.cn comments: