Trade with China is win-win in nature

It is good news for the world economy and market that the heads of state of China and the United States had dinner and a constructive meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina on Dec 1, reaching important consensuses, including one to stop imposing new additional tariffs pending the 90-day-deadlined talks. This result has eased the anxiety over economic growth and market stability in the two largest economies as well as the rest of the world.

Housing system should cover all residents

China is observing the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, but its real estate reform is just two decades old, as the housing reform started only in 1998.

Bearish trend persists on capital markets

Equities continued their downtrend on China's A-share market on Friday, amid the sharp plunge in valuations this year.

Bohai Bank gains from country's opening-up

China Bohai Bank Co Ltd will "ride the wind and plough the waves" of China's reform and opening-up, as the country further opens its financial sector to foreign investment, said senior executives of the bank on Thursday.

Realty moves fail to cheer investors

News that some local governments have eased restrictions on housing sales hit the headlines this week, but the move received a lukewarm response from A-share investors.

Experts, tech giants stress innovation efforts

Leading experts and tech giants have taken a cue from President Xi Jinping's speech on China's reform and opening-up and reiterated their commitment to spur innovation through technology advances.

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SOEs' hospitals on their own

All hospitals affiliated to China's State-owned enterprises will be divested from their giant owners via sales to local governments, closure, resource integration or restructuring with social capital by the end of 2018, according to the nation's top regulator for State assets.

UK companies in China optimistic about Brexit

The majority of British companies operating in China believe the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union will be good for business, according to a new survey.

It's time for peace, stability in Syria

Washington's decisions regarding the Middle East have a tendency to leave chaos and destruction in their wake, as they are usually both self-serving and shortsighted. It is to be hoped the latest proves to be an exception.

US doubles down on a bet of folly

With the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018 now signed into US law, the already rocky China-US relationship just got an additional flashpoint.

Reason to cry over spilt milk

IN A VIDEO widely reposted on the internet, some pupils can be seen pouring free milk provided by the local government into a gutter of a primary school in Longhui, a poverty-stricken county in Hunan province. The National Radio of China comments: