To curb environmental violations requires everyone's participation

SHANGHAI IMPLEMENTED ITS newly revised regulations on rewards for reporting environmental violations on Tuesday, World Environment Day. ThePaper.cn commented on Thursday:

Fate of children should not rest in games

A POST TITLED "A HEART-BROKEN MOTHER'S open letter to all students sitting the national college entrance exam" drawing attention to the damaging consequences of video game addiction has gone viral on social media. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Sharing economy now allows young people to rent better lifestyles

IN MANY CITIES, NOWADAYS, all things can be hired from digital products to clothing, jewelry, even furniture. People's Daily comments:

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US opens Pandora's box with Iran policy

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will attend the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Saturday and Sunday as the leader of an observer country in the SCO. Although Rouhani's attendance is a routine affair, some Western media outlets may use it to speculate that he will urge SCO member states to take some countermeasures against the US' withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

Advanced world's reality: six versus one

The G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Canada, is split between the United States and six other major advanced economies, as US President Donald Trump's unipolar economic and strategic doctrines continue to undermine US alliances with other countries, world trade - and the US itself.

Narrowing the urban-rural education gap

The Chinese government has been increasing the funding for the education sector and taken several other measures to improve the quality of education, especially in rural areas. These efforts are paying off. But there still remains a huge gap between the quality of education in rural and urban areas, especially in terms of teacher shortages in the mountainous, inaccessible and remote areas, with over 60 percent of the schools at quite a distance from many a student's village.

Summit could be beginning of peace, reconciliation

I was walking to the National Press Building on Monday when a TV news crew stopped me and sought my comment on the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un.

US attempts to bully China are doomed to failure

It would be wrong for Washington to consider China's tolerance of its provocations as a sign of weakness. This would be dangerous. Washington should know by now that China will never give an inch when it comes to its territory.

Bizarre docs to be binned

In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of people, enhance government credibility and build a service-oriented government, the State Council, China's Cabinet, recently issued a notice on "strengthening supervision over the formulation of administrative documents".

Timely crackdown on gaokao cheats helps guarantee fairness

SINCE LAST MONTH, the public security authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Liaoning, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces have been cracking down on the producing and selling of high-tech wireless equipment tailor-made for cheating in exams. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

If the doctor's fake, what about the rest of the ad?

A HAIR SHAMPOO BRAND that claimed to prevent hair loss was recently reported to contain false information in its advertisement. Thepaper.cn comments: