MSCI move shows confidence in market

In a thumbs-up for China's financial market opening-up, evidenced by improving stock market accessibility, global index provider MSCI was due to increase the weighting of Chinese shares in its indexes from Tuesday.

Debt default by wealth flaunter more than just celebrity gossip

WANG SICONG, the only son of Chinese billionaire and Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin, has been prohibited from high consumption because he failed to comply with a court ruling. China Daily writer Wang Yiqing comments:

Experienced workers boon not burden

ON SUNDAY, the news of an employee who had been working for the internet giant Netease for five years, who claimed he was dismissed without any compensation even though he was suffering from a heart disease, went viral on social media. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Chinese dream not one of hegemony

Editor's Note: It has become the common expectation of the international society that the United States and China will try their best to avoid an "economic iron curtain". Columnist Zhong Sheng comments on People's Daily:

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Violence hurts HK election, democracy

The Hong Kong District Council Election on Sunday was the sixth of its kind since the special administrative region's return to the motherland, with 1,090 candidates running for 452 seats in the local councils of 18 districts. Both the huge voter turnout and the intense competition are unprecedented, which acquire added importance against the backdrop of months-long violent demonstrations that have undermined the city's image as one ruled by law and sharpened the social divide.

Further opening-up to benefit foreign firms

Setting out the comprehensive strategic design of China's institutional system in the medium and long term, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee called for carrying out all-round high-level opening-up with greater depth, broader range, and more strength. Which will have a long-term impact on China's overall reform and opening-up.

China, EU can propel multilateral trade

The trade war the United States has launched against China is having negative impacts on not only the two economies but also other economies, contributing to the uncertainty over global economic growth. The biggest threat of the trade friction, however, is that it represents a new approach to international trade negotiations - bilateralism - that is inefficient, divisive and unable to address new threats to the world economy.

Hong Kong's district elections chance to step back from the brink of the abyss

Over the past five months or so, radical, violent and criminal practices in Hong Kong have severely threatened people's safety and property, disrupted the rule of law and social order, and undermined the city's prosperity and stability.

US meddling in South China Sea to no avail

In a bid to contain China's peaceful rise, the United States has made the South China Sea a major venue for maintaining high strategic pressure on China in recent years, and for this purpose, the US Navy has increased the frequency with which its warships sail to China's doorstep.

Business activities should not be politicized

To politicize the economy is like rendering to Caesar the things that are not Caesar's and to God the things that are not God's. That is what the United States is doing in its attempt to dissuade its European allies from their cooperation with China's telecommunications giant Huawei in their construction of 5G networks.

Aging population a trend that is both challenge, opportunity

THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES have unveiled the first comprehensive document guiding the governments of various levels to cope with challenges of one of the largest and fastest aging populations in the world. Beijing News comments: