Innovation board drives stock market reform

Editor's Note: In a recent interview with the media, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission Yi Huiman said the pilot registration system marks the biggest institutional breakthrough in the reform of the science and technology innovation board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the direction for the reform of the entire capital market. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Biometric data collection faces public backlash

GUO BING, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of law at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, has sued a local safari park because it requires members to mandatorily enter via a facial recognition lane. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Tsai stranded on wrong side of history

It remains unknown how discomfited the Tsai Ing-wen administration felt the moment it learned of the latest basket of measures the Chinese mainland has unveiled to further economic and cultural exchanges across the Straits. However, while it is predictable that Tsai and her colleagues will heap scorn on the new measures, the warm response Wang Yang, head of the mainland's top political advisory body, received from Taiwan entrepreneurs when he announced the measures speaks volumes about the measures' pertinence.

Legislation must be stringent to keep youngsters safe online

THE LEGISLATION PROCESS should be accelerated to better protect children from unhealthy information online. Gmw.cn comments:

ASEAN meetings herald new era for East Asia's economic integration

The just-concluded series of meetings in Bangkok will go down in the history as a critical milestone for the economic integration of East Asia and broader regional development.

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Committed to promoting globalization

The recent Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee stressed the importance of further opening-up. In fact, China has always been committed to further opening-up, as its hosting of the 2nd China International Import Expo demonstrates. And it has chosen to do so not out of pressure from the outside world, but to achieve its goal of qualitative economic development and to share its development fruits with its trade partners.

How to modernize national governance

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee, which concluded last week, summarized 13 advantages that China's national governance system enjoys, and proposed 13"insists and improves", laying down the timetable and road map for the modernization of the national governance system and governance capability. Specifically, three points should be underlined to implement the decision of the Fourth Plenary Session.

UNDP will strengthen partnership with China to achieve SDGs

The 2019 China International Import Expo being held in Shanghai this week coincides with the United Nations Development Programme's four-decade development partnership with China. About 1 million people are expected to see new products and technologies being showcased by more than 150 countries from different industries all around the world. The expo, in its second year, is in many ways representative of China's increasingly important role in international trade and global engagement.

Intensifying violence in Hong Kong calls for tougher line to restore order

Radical protesters in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region went on the rampage again on the weekend, blocking thoroughfares, vandalizing shops and buildings, setting fire to subway stations, beating up passers-by, planting nails on roads, and attacking police officers with petrol bombs, bricks and other objects.

West devious human rights standard bearer

Last week at a United Nations conference, 23 countries, led by the United Kingdom and the United States, criticized China's anti-terrorism and counter-extremism policies in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. That their allegations were ill-founded and ill-intentioned is indubitable, as evidenced by the more than 60 other countries which gave short shrift to their accusations. They praised China for its achievements in restoring peace and stability in the region and upholding the human rights of all who live there.

CNN's presumption shows its true colors

Contrary to its original statement that the 39 people found dead in a lorry in Essex, Britain, were "believed to be Chinese nationals", the Essex Police now "believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals".