Wind, solar power output to surge

Wind and solar energy will account for about 50 percent of the total power produced in the world by 2050, aided largely by lower production costs, with China leading the revolution, a new report said.

JD opens unmanned Indonesia store

Chinese e-commerce giant JD has announced the opening of an unmanned store in Indonesia, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

Overseas firms to set up more pilot training schools in China

Foreign companies are making hay in China's aviation training market by setting up more pilot training schools and other facilities to cope with the drastic shortage of pilots in the rapidly expanding aviation sector.

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China Unicom, AliCloud team up

China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, the country's second-largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, unveiled a joint venture with Ali-Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, on Friday, aiming to better tap into cloud business opportunities.

Apple in elite club as value soars past $1 trillion

Apple Inc's market capitalization topped $1 trillion on Thursday, the first time a public United States company has reached the milestone. The tech titan kept the record valuation at market close.

Millennials driving gaming revenues

The mobile gaming industry is gaining greater momentum in China as tech-savvy millennials' purchasing power increases.

China, ASEAN show shared resolve for rules-based region

The foreign ministers of China and ASEAN sent the unmistakable message that the two sides are determined to steadily push for a rules-based mechanism to safeguard peace and stability in the waters when they announced they had agreed on an initial negotiating draft for the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea at their meeting in Singapore on Thursday.

Country playing its part for a low-carbon world

Much of China continues to swelter in scorching heat and will continue to do so until the middle of next week, according to the National Meteorological Center.

Still a lot of room to ease tax burden on micro and small enterprises

IN RECENT YEARS, as the downward pressure on the economy has increased, the government has launched a series of measures which have played a positive role in reducing the cost and tax burdens on enterprises. However, due to different cost structures in various industries, enterprises pay different taxes and fees, and the effects of tax reduction and fee reduction policies vary. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Shared bikes, more a problem than a solution?

PHOTOGRAPHER WU GUOYONG has documented vast bicycle graveyards in over 20 Chinese cities. His drone shots show fields covered with shared bikes abandoned by users and retrieved by urban patrol officers. China Youth Daily comments:

Fake doctors doing checkups might put people's lives at risk

THE HEALTH MANAGEMENT company Health 100 is in the news as it has been revealed that many of its staff do not have a doctor's certificate. As early as June, journalists found that five of the seven "medical staff" in a Health 100 clinic in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, did not have a medical license. Now a local health department in Guangzhou has found a Health 100 in the city might have issued health reports illegally to the patients. Thepaper.cn comments: