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China's infrastructure lesson for Africa

There is a saying in China that if you want to be rich, you need to build a road and a bridge. Which is true, as the infrastructure facilities China has built over four decades of reform and opening-up have boosted its economic growth and helped it lift more than 800 million people out of poverty.

People-first policy for healthy growth

Editor's Note: Some experts recently proposed that "maternity funds" be established with the contributions from childless and single-child couples to help those families that have two or more children. Their argument is that the measure will encourage (if not force) all childbearing age couples to have two children and help ease the aging problem. But their proposal has sparked a heated debate online on how to sensibly encourage couples to have two children and cope with the aging population. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

China may not be better than US, but it is still a major tech power

When it comes to China's technological prowess, we get to hear two extremely contrasting views. The first is exaggeration. Some irresponsible media outlets tend to praise China's technological capabilities to the sky. They use headlines such as, "The US is shocked! A Chinese scientist has helped China develop chip technology that is way better than those possessed by other countries!", to prove their point.

China and Malaysia put Asian values to the fore

Although 93, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has shown great interest in the latest achievements of China's technology companies during his ongoing visit to China.

Paranoia in White House bedevils bilateral relations

On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump called on "all of the fools" focusing on Russia to "start also looking in another direction, China".

Real estate cauldron cooled by dousing rising land prices

STATISTICS SHOW THAT land prices in major cities have dropped year-on-year for the last four months in a row, while housing prices have risen slightly. Last month, the growth in the average housing price surpassed the growth in the price of land price for the first time since May 2016. Beijing News comments:

Monopolies unbalance housing rental market

THE BEIJING HOUSING, banking, financial and taxation authorities have warned some long-term apartment rental companies not to disturb the market order, and instructed them to strengthen their self-regulation and end their monopoly practices. Qianjiang Evening comments:

Redcore farce shows there are no short cuts in scientific research

THE REDCORE BROWSER, which its developers claimed to be the first domestically produced browser with self-developed core technology, was revealed to be based on Google Chrome. Science and Technology Daily comments:

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How US is hurting itself in the tariff war

After months of trade threats, the Donald Trump administration announced its 25 percent tariff on $34 billion of Chinese imports effective in early July, while threatening levies on another $16 billion of imports. To defend its sovereign interest, China responded by imposing 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of US imports, and recently announced an additional tariff of 25 percent on $16 billion of US imports effective on Aug 23.

Confucius Institutes a win-win proposition

According to the Chinese Language Council (Hanban), there are some 54 Confucius Institutes in Africa - the same number as there are countries in the Africa. Most of the Confucius Institutes are based in universities or colleges.