New policy to boost car sales in short term

Editor's Note: Premier Li Keqiang said in the Government Work Report he delivered on Tuesday that the preferential policies on the purchase of new energy vehicles will continue to maintain steady automobile consumption. Three experts share their views on the issue and discuss how China's car market will develop in the future with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Deeper reform can help meet new challenges

Thanks to China's transformation from high-speed economic growth to high quality development, its economy has reached a period of significant strategic opportunity. By 2035, China is expected to achieve socialist modernization with its per capita GDP reaching 35,000 international dollars in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). While the United States reached that level in 1988, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Japan did so in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2004, respectively.

Despite economic headwinds, report inspires confidence

Some people seem to have an incurable dread of China becoming economically stronger. But what worries more minds these days is whether the world's second-largest economy can continue growing as it has over the past few decades.

Nothing untoward about China's military budget

By announcing that the country's defense budget is projected to grow by 7.5 percent this year, China has maintained a single digit growth in its military spending for four consecutive years. Such a growth pace is compatible with the country's comprehensive national strength and underscores its commitment to safeguarding both its national security and world peace.

You have to laugh when US calls Confucius Institutes 'spy agency'

THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, the supreme audit institution of the federal government of the United States, released a report on Feb 27, which says that it found Confucius Institutes on US campuses play largely positive roles and assertions that they interfered with US academic freedom were unfounded. Li Ye, a veteran Chinese teacher for foreigners, comments in an article for Guancha.cn:

Harsher punishments for human traffickers

DURING HER INTERVIEW with the media, Zhang Baoyan, a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress from Tonghua, Jilin province, advocated harsher punishments for those convicted of trafficking women and children. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

People need to be more rational about clothes donations

Editor's note: One after another, urban communities have adopted donation boxes for residents' unwanted clothes. However, several media outlets recently found that a majority of the clothes people donate are dissembled and recycled for profit, instead of going to the poor. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Hot words: Personal information protection law

个人信息保护法 (gèrén xìnxī bǎohùfǎ)

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A global growth engine despite deceleration

Released by Premier Li Keqiang at the annual session of the National People's Congress on Tuesday, the Government Work Report sets the general tone for this year's economic policies.

Better IPR protection can boost innovation

In recent years, the rapidly growing internet economy has become an important engine for the transformation and upgrading of national economies, and for making them more effective. The internet economy has also had a profound impact on societies, cultures, national economies and the well-being of the people.

'One country, two systems' leads road to reunification

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan, President Xi Jinping said on Jan 2, 2019, that the "one country, two systems" is the best way to realize the reunification of Taiwan and the motherland. And Premier Li Keqiang reiterated the importance of peaceful reunification in the Government Work Report that he delivered on Tuesday.