Women's marital or childbearing status not germane to applying for job

AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS to promote gender equality in employment, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and eight other ministries, agencies and social groups, issued a notice on Thursday forbidding employers asking female job applicants about their marital and childbearing status. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Move to stop padding of property prices

ON FEB 18, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation that requires realty developers to sell newly-constructed buildings according to their exclusive usable floor area. Pan Helin, a postdoctoral scholar at the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, comments:

Only way out for Tsai is to improve cross-Straits ties

Editor's note: In an interview with CNN, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen said that the Chinese mainland poses a "military threat" to Taiwan and asked Asia, even the whole world, to "unite" against it. Xiakedao, the official WeChat account of People's Daily overseas edition, comments:

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Economic outlook optimistic for China

Economists believe the developed world's growth prospects will worsen this year. In fact, on Feb 7, the European Commission further cut this year's growth forecast for the European Union from 2 percent to 1.5 percent, and lowered the growth expectation for Germany from 1.8 percent to 1.1 percent.

Internationalized euro increasingly prominent

As a currency that initially covered 14 member states of the European Union, the euro was officially launched on Jan 1, 1999, initially as an electronic currency. Euro bank notes and coins came into physical circulation on Jan 1, 2002, and following a two-month transition period, the euro officially replaced the currencies of the countries in the eurozone.

Chinese wisdom of incremental improvement

With the world in transition, Sino-US relations have become a cause for global concern. With many people, seemingly perceiving a conflict, even war, as inevitable between the established and emerging power.

PBOC swears by prudent policy

Nation unlikely to purchase more Treasury bonds or implement new QE measures

Huawei to continue R&D investments in Canadian networks

Huawei is committed to increasing research and development investment and collaboration with partners in Canada despite the potential ban on the company's 5G gear, according to Huawei Chairman Liang Hua.

Tsai paints false picture of situation in Asia

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's warning that the Chinese mainland poses a threat to Asia is nothing more than her whistling past a graveyard.

Expectations of Sino-Indian ties must be rational

Editor's note: China should not care too much about whether India takes part in Belt and Road projects as long as it treats China as a partner, comments Mao Keji, an observer of South Asia, in an article for Guancha.cn. Excerpts:

It is not parents that should clean classrooms

SOME PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN HANGZHOU, Zhejiang province, invited pupils' parents to clean the classrooms before the beginning of the new semester instead of the students, and some parents, who are too busy to do the cleaning, hired people to do it for them. Yanzhao Metropolis Daily comments: