WITH NOV 11, the country's biggest shopping carnival, on the horizon, three express delivery companies have announced they are raising their prices. The other express delivery companies are expected to follow suit and raise their prices as well. Qianjiang Evening News comments:
KENSINGTON WADE in London, Britain's first English-Mandarin primary school, recruited its first batch of 15 students from Europe, the United States and South America recently. People's Daily comments:
On Sept 11, the 71st UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that challenges the international community to improve global economic governance based on the principles of consultation, cooperation and sharing. The resolution also calls for the UN to continue to play a central role in developing consensus to address global challenges and build a human community of shared destiny in the spirit of win-win cooperation. Thus another Chinese concept has been adopted by the international community.
On Monday, a Long March 2D carrier rocket took off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu province. It carried Venezuela's second remote-sensing satellite, VRSS-2, which was designed and manufactured by Chinese companies with the cooperation of Venezuela.
The increasing digitization of the global economy is changing how products and services are produced, distributed, and sold across borders. Technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and "smart devices" are spawning new industries, and changing old ones.
During a recent visit to a Shanghai hospital, I was amazed to see a robot, instead of a human being, dispensing medicine.
"Our people look forward to better education, a more stable job, a more satisfactory income... and expect their children to grow up, work and live better," Xi Jinping said in his first news conference after he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in November 2012.
On Wednesday, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor presented her first policy address since taking office as chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in July, making clear that her focus is on improving people's livelihoods.
THE TOTAL VOLUME of China's express delivery industry has been the largest in the world for three consecutive years, and it has contributed 40 percent of the growth in the global express delivery business, the State Post Bureau said on Monday. Legal Daily comments:
ON SUNDAY and Monday alone, police in Jiangsu province dealt with 4,874 cases of drivers illegally using the emergency lanes on expressways. Thepaper.cn comments:
A BRIDE in Handan, Hebei province, has caused a stir by refusing to solicit a betrothal gift from her husband. It is traditional for a man to offer money as a betrothal gift when asking a woman to marry him. Yanzhao Metropolis Daily commented on Wednesday:
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