Reciprocation now key to Korean Peninsula peace

It is always good to hear Pyongyang vow to denuclearize. Even better when it comes with a timeline.

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Partners walking toward prosperity

President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the just concluded summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, themed "Walk Together Toward Prosperity", provided the road map for China-Africa cooperation in the new era. China looks forward to a world of greater openness, devoid of isolation, because it has learned from its four decades of reform and opening-up that prosperity only comes to those who embrace the world with open arms.

On way to improving resource management

The just concluded summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation drew global attention, and there is widespread agreement that successful South-South cooperation mechanisms can promote mutual development, and enable the participating countries to better respond to global challenges. But that success is not coming easily.

China and Africa natural partners for development

When covering the Seventh Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing earlier this week, attention focused on the $60 billion in aid and financing China pledged to African nations.

Xi's speech blueprint for greater synergy

President Xi Jinping's speech at the summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation reverberated not only in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, but also in the whole of Africa and the world at large.

Local govt's empty promises expose a state of affairs that has to be cleaned up

RESPONDING TO COMPLAINTS by local residents, an inspection team of the State Council, China's Cabinet, found large amounts of household rubbish had been dumped in the Mazhong River in Babao town of Kaiyuan city, Northeast China's Liaoning province. They also discovered a factory making plastic products and a local papermaking industrial park was discharging waste water into the river. China Youth Daily comments:

Indoor pollution at school should be taken seriously

MONDAY MARKED the start of a new school year for primary and secondary schools nationwide. However, about 1,000 pupils in Nanyou Primary School, Shenzhen, did not go to school because their classroom had been newly decorated and their parents were worried formaldehyde might harm their health. Thepaper.cn comments:

Nauru's ugly forum farce against trend of times

The visa row between Nauru and diplomats from the Chinese mainland, while an "ugly farce", is little more than a storm in a teacup. However, it does reveal something significant that is of concern.

HK campuses must not tolerate the impermissible

Hong Kong separatists reared their heads on university campuses again in the past week, one year after separatist banners on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong provoked widespread condemnation in the special administrative region last September.

Online avengers' cyber bullying breaks law

A WOMAN IN CHONGQING attempted suicide, because she could no longer bear the endless harassment, humiliation and even physical threats from fans of a novelist, whose network fiction she had criticized. Beijing News comments:

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