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Belt and Road building cultural bridges

One of China's biggest contributions to global governance in the past five years may be the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.

Efforts required to leverage city-led growth

Over the last decade, China has been working to shift from a manufacturing-led growth model fueled by low-cost labor to an innovation-led, higher value-added model underpinned by strong productivity gains. Urbanization is critical to facilitate this shift, not least by enabling economies of scale.

Why are there always shootings in the US?

The mass shooting in Las Vegas has prompted broad discussion, both in the United States and the rest of the world, on gun control.

Growing exchanges bringing US and China closer

Today, 14,000 US students come to China each year to study, according to US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Five principles to leverage period of opportunity

Many Chinese aphorisms urge people to work hard. Few urge them to work smarter, but that, as the country's leadership has made clear, is what is needed now.

Tsai's harmful prevarication

Even before she delivered her speech to mark the "national day of the Republic of China" on Tuesday, it was not difficult to predict what approach Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the "independence" advocating administration on the island, would take with regard to cross-Straits relations.

New ROK ambassador to China may help promote improvement in ties

NOH YOUNG-MIN, the Republic of Korea's new ambassador to China, assumed office on Tuesday in Beijing. Wang Junsheng, an expert on Korean Peninsula affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, shared his views on Noh's appointment and its implications for the China-ROK ties with China Daily:

Transparency lesson for local officials

ON FRIDAY, a video was spread online, showing two SUVs chasing wild antelopes in the Tibet autonomous region. Two days later, the local authorities said they had found those involved and fined them 105,000 yuan ($15,900). Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Kids' talents now second to money in online contests

MANY CHILDREN compete in various kinds of commercial talent competitions on the internet, and their parents will often use WeChat, the most popular mobile social media platform in China, to canvass votes for them. China Youth Daily comments:

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