THREE SCIENTISTS won $1 million each for their research in basic sciences and their applications at the 2017 Future Science Prize award ceremony in Beijing on Saturday. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
LI XIUGUO, a farmer from Central China's Henan province, disappeared while trying to save five people from drowning in the Yellow River in neighboring Shandong province. Yet when his family applied for the honorary title of Good Samaritan for him, officials from both provinces rejected their plea. Huashang Daily comments:
The Western model, represented by the Washington Consensus and characterized by exclusionism and global dominance, has been endangering global governance since the global financial crisis. On the international front, the United States has overruled, or has been trying to overrule the United Nations - the Afghan war and Iraq war, and most recently the Paris climate change agreement come readily to mind as examples.
With its efforts and achievements, China will have many successful stories to share, taking it one step closer to making poverty history. Between 2013 and last year, a total of 55.64 million people were lifted out of poverty - an average of 13.91 million per year, resulting in a reduction of poverty incidence from 10.2 percent in 2012 to 4.5 percent last year, which is a big achievement in the past five years under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
President Xi Jinping has emphasized the importance of people-oriented art, saying art should be of the people and for the people. Chinese TV dramas would do good to follow Xi's advice and create works that enrich Chinese culture as well as benefit the producers.
With Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian counterpart the Christian Social Union in Bavaria consistently leading the opinion polls, the German chancellor seems set to win her fourth federal parliamentary election on Sept 24.
Separatists in Hong Kong have launched another propaganda campaign on university campuses with "pro-independence" posters and banners at the beginning of the new academic year, a move that has drawn citywide condemnation, from media commentaries to protest rallies.
If the United Nations Security Council accepts the United States' formal request, it could vote on Monday to impose the severest sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in response to its intensified nuclear program, especially its sixth nuclear test on Sept 3.
ON THURSDAY, Beijing's transportation management authorities called a halt to new station-less, hire-on-demand "shared" bikes in the city, where some 2.35 million such bikes are being run by 15 companies. Legal Daily commented on Saturday:
In a letter to his employees, Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei Technologies Co, said he has promoted a staff member who reported the misconducts of his supervisor, in order to encourage all employees to speak the "truth". Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Saturday:
A house deemed illegal building will finally be torn down after 14 years of negotiations between the owner and the Shanghai urban management authorities. Beijing News commented on Saturday:
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