Editor's note: At a recent forum on financial holding firms organized by China Everbright Group and Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, to mark the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, some officials and scholars shared their views on the role of finance in boosting the real economy and helping the private sector. Following are excerpts from the speeches delivered by three of them:
Hundreds of people from around the country visit Jinggangshan, in eastern China's Jiangxi province, each day to retrace the revolutionary generation's footsteps.
Li Minghua and his wife, Xu Houmei, are kept busy at home every day, preparing ingredients for visitors to Bashang village who want to cook a meal like the Red Army used to eat when it was based in the area in the 1920s.
Since He Tao was 8 years old, he dreamed of owning a restaurant. Today, He is the owner of a chain of luosifen restaurants. Aimin, named for his aunt, has 140 outlets across the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
A young man in northern China's Hebei province has taken his mother - who was abducted from her home in Sichuan province three decades ago - back to her birthplace to find long-lost relatives.
Japanese military police chief Captain Hatoyama, the main villain in the modern Peking Opera The Legend of the Red Lantern, is a notoriously brutal character.
The controversy over gene-edited twins has heightened the urgent need for specific laws regulating assisted reproductive technologies, experts said on Tuesday.
Bai Hua, head of a nongovernmental HIV/AIDS advocacy organization called Baihualin, said he "felt deceived" after hearing news of the world's first gene-edited babies whose DNA was altered in an attempt to make them immune to human immunodeficiency virus.
As needlelike larch leaves fall like golden snowflakes in the mountains of Youyu county, it is hard to imagine the forests are the result of generations of human effort rather than a gift of nature.
On the back of its effective afforestation program, Youyu county is focusing on developing an ecological economy, with sea buckthorn, a hardy, fast-growing shrub, playing a major role.
He is best known as Singapore's "father of city planning", but Liu Thai Ker can also boast of having a hand in shaping the urban landscape in China.
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