Cultural relics require safekeeping

AN ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZE VESSEL, which was looted from Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, and taken to the United Kingdom in the 19th century, was returned to China and transferred to the National Museum of China on Tuesday. ThePaper.cn comments:

Sanctions move will put progress with DPRK at risk

The tensions between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have generally eased since the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June.

Kidnapping of Meng due to US worries that it is in decline

Editor's note: The detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, by Canada at the behest of the United States is a political kidnap, comments Shen Yi, a researcher of politics at Shanghai-based Fudan University, in a post published by Guancha.cn. Excerpts:

Canada should choose right course and not play US game

A Canadian court granted bail to Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, on Tuesday, which is a step in the right direction. But it is only a small one, and the diplomatic incident, which has been manufactured by Washington using Ottawa as a tool to manipulate the extradition system for political not legal ends, is still far from over.

Japanese rightists' move to deny Nanjing Massacre doomed to fail

THURSDAY MARKS THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY for Nanjing Massacre Victims. On Monday, a monument for the victims, the first of its kind overseas, was unveiled in Toronto, Canada. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

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The place where nothing is ever lost in translation

In the 1950s and '60s, a group of 46 translators of Kazakh all hailed from Hongdun in Altay, a remote city in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Love overcomes ethnic hurdles

Song Huashou and his wife were outwardly calm as they told their love story, but it was easy to spot their inner excitement.

Fruits sow seed of city's export boom

Since the mid-1990s, fruits and vegetables have been helping exporters make a tasty profit in Manzhouli, a border city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

At the border, a passage of time

Trains roar through the grand guomen, or national gate, in Manzhouli on a daily basis to cross the land border between China and Russia.

Farmer by day, writer by night

Writing, let alone publishing, is a luxury for women from China's remote villages, especially those busy with housework or on the farm all day, or those who cannot easily get access to books or the internet.

DESIGNER TAPS LOCAL FLAVOR TO FUEL GEELY'S GLOBAL AMBITION

The first thing car design guru Guy Burgoyne usually shows visitors to his office in Shanghai's Pudong district are his caricatures of heroes from the classic novel Journey to the West, including the Monkey King and monk Tang Sanzang.