Anti-graft fight never ending

Lu Wei, former deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is being investigated for suspected severe violations of Party discipline, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-graft overseer, revealed on Tuesday night.

Pharma firms obliged to make medicines even if unprofitable

AFTER MEDIA REPORTS about a shortage, even in some big hospitals, of mercapatopurinem, a medication used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases, particularly children with leukemia, Premier Li Keqiang has urged domestic pharmaceutical companies to increase their output as soon as possible. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Passengers have right to claim compensation

A PRETRIAL MEETING in the litigation related to the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur three years ago, concluded in Beijing on Tuesday, with a focus on exchanges of evidence and clarifying the appeals of relevant parties. Beijing News commented on Wednesday:

Designated day for doctors will raise their status

THE STATE COUNCIL, China's Cabinet, recently approved Aug 19 being observed as Chinese Doctors' Day, beginning next year. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Chinese Dream to benefit entire world

Editor's note: On Nov 29, 2012, after being elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Xi Jinping first talked about the "Chinese Dream" while delivering a speech at an exhibition at the National Museum of China, saying the greatest dream of the Chinese people today should be national rejuvenation. Four experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang on the significance of the Chinese Dream. Excerpts follow:

Economic corridor could stabilize region

At his meeting with Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a China-Myanmar economic corridor, which will start from Southwest China's Yunnan province and extend to the central Myanmar city of Mandalay, and then east to Yangon and west to the Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone. The plan, Wang said, will be made in accordance with Myanmar's national development plan and actual needs to strengthen the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.

All hopes rest on Katowice to deliver on climate pledge

On a staid note, that's how the UN Climate Change Conference ended in Bonn, Germany, over the weekend, framing just the skeleton of the rulebook of the 2015 Paris Agreement and leaving it to the 2018 climate conference in Poland to put flesh and muscles on it.

US' ill-judged move dims prospects for DPRK talks

Despite his war of words with the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump expressed his preference for a diplomatic solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis during his recent trip to Asia.

Greener growth brings benefits

The development of the renewable energy sector has to push economic growth while dealing with climate change. How to reach a delicate balance between the two poses a challenge to many countries. The long cycle and high costs of renewable energy projects along with the lack of mature technologies have created obstacles to some countries promoting the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.

Changing railway bureaus into companies good start to reform

ALL 18 OF THE LOCAL BUREAUS affiliated to the former Ministry of Railways, which was transformed into China Railway Corporation in March four years ago, have now been converted into companies. Beijing News comments:

Graft and incompetence threaten reserves

BETWEEN JANUARY AND OCTOBER some 16 people have been detained on suspicion of undermining the natural resources in the Qilian Mountains National Nature Reserve, Northwest China's Gansu province, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Monday. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Tuesday: