New high-tech board to be set up in Shanghai

China will launch a new trading platform in Shanghai for high-tech and innovative companies and experiment with a registration-based system for initial public offerings (IPOs), as part of the ongoing efforts to further reform and open up the nation's financial market.

Airshow China in Zhuhai boosts aviation industry

Despite being a new city with a history of only 39 years, Zhuhai in Guangdong province is already catching global attention, partly due to its diverse and high-level international events and the positive impressions they leave on attendees.

Bridge expected to bring in more visitors

The newly opened Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has made an unprecedented impact on road transport between Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macao, making it much more convenient and opening tourism opportunities for all sides to tap.

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Import expo a milestone for China's opening-up

The expos and fairs China has held at different times in history serve as milestones in its development journey.

Sanctions on Iran unlikely to get what White House wants

As the US president indicated Saturday, he wants a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only he wants "a new, more comprehensive" one. One that suffices to not only freeze Iran's nuclear program, but also reduces that country's influence across the Middle East.

Inequality in US-ROK ties makes Washington key to peninsula issue

THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA and the Republic of Korea stopped all forms of hostile military operations against each other in the air, and on the sea and the land from Nov 1, as required by the Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula that they adopted during the inter-Korean summit in April. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

More must be done to improve road safety

A HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK carrying a dismantled tower crane crashed into a line of 31 automobiles at a toll station on the Lanzhou-Haikou expressway in the suburb of Lanzhou, Northwest China's Gansu province, on Saturday evening. By Sunday morning, 15 people were confirmed dead and 44 injured, among whom 10 are severely wounded. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Vow of support for private firms lays questions to rest

Editor's note: The meeting between some representatives of private business owners and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, in Beijing on Thursday has reinforced the message that China will unswervingly support its private economy, comments ThePaper.cn in its editorial. Excerpts:

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Import expo a harbinger of progress

For many years, China has occupied the pole position in international trade rankings as the world's biggest exporter.