Short video platforms must be swept clean

MANY SHORT VIDEO CLIPS have gone viral on social media platforms in the past few years. But instead of concentrating on the number of views they get, short video clips should be positive and promote correct values, says People's Daily:

Tightened security creates virtuous cycle in Xinjiang

When the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region suffered from explosions, assassinations, arson attacks along with attacks on innocent people and riots from the early 1990s until 2015, the Western media mostly blamed the Chinese government for all this.

Which country is the real meddler in others' affairs?

Editor's note: In his recent speech at the Hudson Institute, US Vice-President Mike Pence made groundless accusations against China. Wang Dong and Sun Bingyan, two research fellows on international relations at Peking University, commented in a recent article:

Chinese people confident in nation's future as it's being built on their efforts

HISTORICALLY, the brave and industrious Chinese people have overcome many difficulties and obstacles on their own, and in doing so they have made marvelous achievements that have impressed the world. They will do so again this time. China Daily writer Wang Yiqing comments:

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Working together to make poverty history

Military-civilian integration a necessary step

Against the backdrop of the intensification and upgrading of competition among major countries, combining efforts to make the country prosperous with efforts to make the military strong, and making overall plans for development and security are essential to consolidate China's economic and national strength.

Belt and Road Initiative to benefit all

Over the past four decades since reform and opening-up was launched, China has made brilliant achievements in both economic construction and opening-up; its social productivity and comprehensive national strength have risen significantly, and its status and influence in regional and world affairs have increased remarkably.

It's always unwise to bet against Chinese economy

The Chinese economy's resilience, reflected by such factors as stable GDP growth, mild consumer inflation, increasing corporate profits and rising household incomes this year, will disappoint those doomsayers that have been consistently short on the world's second-largest economy for its high debt levels and new uncertainties as a result of its trade disputes with the United States.

DPRK's moves naturally have proviso: better safe than sorry

Unimaginable just a few months ago, Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un may soon shake hands with his US counterpart at a second summit meeting.

Media paint false picture proclaiming foreign investment pulling out of China

SOME OVERSEAS MEDIA outlets have been trying to hype the notion that foreign companies are "withdrawing" their investments out of China. Economic Daily comments:

Domestic product standards must be enforced

IN A SPEECH DELIVERED ON SUNDAY, which marked the annual World Standards Day, the State Administration for Market Regulation head Zhang Mao said that the agency will continue narrowing the gap between the standards for domestic consumption goods and exported ones. Beijing News comments: