'Crayfish graduates' have last laugh

IN 2017, JIANGHAN ART VOCATIONAL COLLEGE introduced three majors related to the cooking, marketing and management of crayfish in their food management school, which prompted people to jokingly call the school "Crayfish School". The first batch of graduates from these courses have reportedly all secured jobs one semester before graduation. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Rule of law strengthens social stability in new era

Among all the reports submitted for review to the national legislature at its annual session, those by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate have been a focus of attention in the past.

There can be no passing of the buck to AI

Editor's note: Prosecutors in the United States recently announced that Uber will not be held responsible for the world's first fatal accident involving an autonomous car. Jin Zegang, a law professor at Tongji University, in an interview with ThePaper.cn, says:

Farewell to GDP as only performance indicator

THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS will centralize the checking and computation of the gross domestic product of provincial-level regions this year, and halt the conventional practice of ranking the regions in terms of GDP size and GDP growth rate. Beijing News comments:

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Three steps toward green Belt and Road

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative will likely be the most significant development in global finance in the coming decade, as it promotes investment of trillions of dollars in infrastructure across Asia, Europe and Africa. This region includes low-income countries, as well as fast-growing economies, including Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Draft law to further facilitate investment

Topping the agenda at the National People's Congress annual session this week will be the question of adopting a new law for foreign investment. The unified law will replace the three existing laws on Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Chinese-foreign contractual joint ventures. Which makes me feel nostalgic, as I was one of the early "China trade lawyers" to travel across the country in the 1980s and 1990s to negotiate joint venture deals to bring multinationals into China's market.

Job growth fine, yet many other issues need to be addressed

In the Government Work Report presented to the national legislature on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang said the country will pursue an employment-first policy with full force. Which means that for the first time the employment-first policy has been elevated to the status of a macro policy.

Long March rockets still going strong

ON SUNDAY, China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket into geostationary orbit, marking the 300th launch of the Long March family. Shi Hao, a scientist with the space mission engineering program at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, comments:

Precautionary move that puts people's safety first

To guard against potential risks, China's civilian aviation authority ordered all Chinese airlines to indefinitely ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes on Monday. The decision, made after one of the aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed on Sunday killing all on board, is a necessary and reasonable move as China's airlines operate 90 of the aircraft.

Fate of NATO in question as US insists on protection fee

THE US PRESIDENT complained late last year that US military spending was crazily high, but the fiscal 2020 military budget due to be presented to Congress on Monday amounts to $750 billion, a record level. China Daily reporter Wu Yixue comments:

Referee's bias kicks off storm of criticism

Editor's note: After a match between Shandong Luneng and Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League on Saturday, the performance of the referee Fu Ming has been in the spotlight because of several decisions he gave in favor of the visiting team. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments: