Income tax reform can help boost demand

The individual income tax reform allowing special deductions for children's education, continuing self-education, treatment of serious diseases, housing mortgage interest, housing rent and support for senior citizens that came into effect on Jan 1 is a key step toward changing China's individual income tax system from classified to comprehensive tax collection.

As US adherent, Canada cannot gain much from trade with China

As neighboring countries and close partners, Canada and the United States share common interests in various fields. But despite that, the two countries' relations have seen twists and turns, including trade disputes, recently.

Bay Area to deepen reform, cooperation

Guangdong province in South China has vowed to deepen reform and opening-up in economic development, and to further expand cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, to speed up the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the new year.

Qatar Airways buys stake in China Southern

China Southern Airlines Co, the largest airline by fleet size in Asia, said earlier this week that Qatar Airways Group now holds a 5 percent stake in the company by acquiring 14,600 of its total issued shares.

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Curative claims need clean bill of health

ON TUESDAY, THE FIRST WORKING DAY OF 2019, the police in Tianjin launched an investigation into Quanjian Natural Medicine Science & Technology Development Co on suspicion of pyramid selling and false advertising. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Peninsula progress will take more than another meeting

For much of last year, both United States President Donald Trump and Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un were very enthusiastic about their interaction. Until they started bickering about whose turn it was to make the next move and the peninsula denuclearization process stalled, with the two sides pointing fingers at each other's gamesmanship.

Road map to reunification now clear

Editor's note: China must be and will be reunited, said President Xi Jinping at a gathering in Beijing on Wednesday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan. Xiakedao, a WeChat account affiliated to the People's Daily, comments on Thursday:

Circular economy must not turn public funds into profit for cheats

AN INDUSTRIAL PARK SPECIALIZING in processing renewable resources in Yulin, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, reportedly uses untreated slag to make bricks. Beijing News comments:

It would be great if Britain could step out of the past

Given its coming divorce from the European Union and its desire to show it is its own master, Britain seems to feel the need to demonstrate that its status is not dependent on it being part of the European collective.

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US-China-Russia ties will shape the future

Let's have a look at the global strategic landscape and the US-China-Russia trilateral orientations as we welcome a new year.