Schools must also look within

A 49-year-old repairman from Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, whose employment contract with a primary school in Beijing's Xicheng district, was due to end this month, took revenge on the school, which refused to sign a new contract with him, by attacking students with a hammer when the pupils were taking their physical education class in the school playground on Tuesday morning. A total of 20 students were wounded, four of them seriously, according to a news conference organized by the Xicheng district government on Tuesday evening.

AIIB proves to world it can meet requirements of the 21st century

OUR PERFORMANCE has indisputably proved to the world that this is a genuine multilateral development agency that operates in accordance with high international standards, said Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, in a recent interview with China Newsweek. The following are excerpts of Jin's interview:

Law can inject fresh faith in vaccines

PUBLIC OPINIONS are now being solicited on an updated draft of a Vaccine Management Law. 21st Century Business Herald comments:

Moon shows his resolve to keep peace ball rolling

Editor's note: Thanks to their joint efforts, Pyongyang and Seoul have been moving toward increasing cooperation and development, comments Ma Weiying, an associate researcher at the Northeast Asia Studies Institute, Jilin Academy of Social Sciences:

Hot word: Tourism market blacklist

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More births won't solve aging problem

A popular view is that the one-child policy in the past acted like a huge dam on a river, holding back desired fertility.

Stricter security can curb school attacks

On Tuesday morning, a man hit 20 children with a hammer at a primary school in Beijing. Four of the children were severely injured. Several similar tragedies have happened in China in recent years, sometimes resulting in some students' deaths. These incidents should prompt the authorities to tighten security in and around schools, where some of the most vulnerable members of society spend much of their time during a regular weekday. Schools ought to be the safest place in the neighborhood.

Cooperation is Kim's legacy for World Bank and the world

Before becoming the president of the World Bank in 2012, Jim Yong Kim was a reputed global health leader and had served as the department chair of Harvard Medical School and president of Dartmouth College. Among his many distinguished services, however, he will be most remembered for his leadership at the World Bank.

Spirit of accommodation key to trade agreement

The repercussions from the trade frictions between the United States and China are already giving investors the heebie-jeebies and causing widespread consternation.

Awards show how far China has come, how far it has to go

Hybrid rice, high-speed railways, or the Chang'e 4 lunar probe which made an unprecedented landing on the far side of the moon last week are likely what first come to mind when considering China's science and technology achievements.

Technology can hedge against impacts of coming negative population growth

A RESEARCH REPORT on population and economic growth published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last week projects that China's population will peak at about 1.44 billion by around 2028 and thereafter enter a persistent negative growth phase. Beijing News comments: