Relationship that inherits the past, creates the future

President Xi Jinping's state visit to France has injected fresh vitality into bilateral ties.

Boao Forum expected to pool more wisdom for development

Will this year's Boao Forum for Asia be able to generate a stronger consensus for the economic integration of Asia and globalization?

Cambridge University admissions rumor reflects parents' ambitions

SOME CHINESE MEDIA OUTLETS have recently reported on a "new initiative" by the University of Cambridge that it will admit the top 0.1 percent of students in the gaokao, or college entrance examination. In an interview with Beijing News, Zhang Feng, a media practitioner, comments:

Kimono hides truth of Wuhan incident

A MAN WEARING A KIMONO-LIKE COSTUME who tried to enter the grounds of Wuhan University on Sunday to view the cherry blossom was stopped at the gate, which created a buzz online. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Look askance at signs of change in appearance

Editor's note: In a campaign enforced by the Workers' Cultural Hall of Jing'an district, Shanghai, to "improve" the appearance of its external facade, the signs of the shops that rent the cultural hall's ground-floor booths have been replaced with unified black boards - one connected to another - bordered with white strips, on which the names of the shops are printed in white characters. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

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Xi's visit to put Sino-EU ties on track

President Xi Jinping's visit to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21 to 26 comes at an important juncture for European Union-China relations.

BRI links nations, does not lay 'debt traps'

Despite being widely acknowledged as a connectivity and infrastructure development project for the past five years, the Belt and Road Initiative has come in for criticism by some, with a few even calling it a "debt trap" that China is laying by offering huge loans to countries already under a debt burden.

Situation on peninsula not likely to worsen in near term

Editor's note: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea pulled its staff out of the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong on Friday, one day after the US Treasury Department announced additional sanctions on the country which were abruptly scrapped by US President Donald Trump. Although some DPRK staff returned to the liaison office on Monday to work with their Republic of Korea counterparts, the new twists and turns indicate the inter-Korean relations depend on the development of DPRK-US ties. In such circumstances, what does the future hold for the Korean Peninsula? Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

Farrago of hostilities brings no deal Brexit ever closer

Friday was supposed to be the day of destiny for the United Kingdom; that it won't be is probably the only certainty in its long drawn-out divorce from the European Union.

Extend demographic dividend

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of people aged 60 and above reached 249 million in China in 2018, about 18 percent of its total population. Moreover, China's new labor force in cities has been decreasing since 2012, with a total reduction of more than 26 million people.