Onus on entire society to fight child abuse

The Nanjing Railway Procuratorate on Monday ordered the arrest of a young man surnamed Duan for suspected child abuse. He was photographed early this month touching an 8-year-old girl's breast in the waiting hall of Nanjing high-speed railway station.

Time to cure US of its paranoia about FDI by Chinese firms

The US administration says it welcomes foreign investment, but it is politicizing Chinese foreign direct investment yet again. Perhaps the US is paranoid about Chinese FDI. An example of its paranoia about Chinese FDI was the Securities and Exchange Commission's order on Aug 9 to put an indefinite hold on a $20 million acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by a group of buyers led by Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group.

'Strategic assets' plan will add fuel to peninsula fire

Reactions to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's latest provocation have followed the age-old script:

Real economy boosts yuan

With the onshore yuan-dollar exchange rate breaking through the 6.6 mark on Monday, the first time since June last year, and the offshore rate also approaching 6.6, the Chinese currency has been steadily appreciating against the greenback - up nearly 5 percent since January.

Local government planners cannot guarantee revival of Jilin economy

A RESEARCH TEAM led by Justin Yifu Lin, an economist at Peking University and former senior vice-president of the World Bank, has suggested Northeast China's Jilin province, a heavy industry base since the 1930s, shift focus to developing light industry. Beijing News comments:

Commercial stunts not part of sharing economy

THE BOOMING SHARING ECONOMY has extended to liquefied natural gas tanks, which can be "shared" by residents in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, by scanning the quick response code on the tank. The tanks are delivered by appointment online. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Charities could do better with transparency

ON TUESDAY, internet giant Tencent Inc organized a charity activity that allowed people to buy a piece of drawing online for any price higher than 1 yuan ($ 0.15). All the drawings were made by people with autism, cerebral palsy or dysgnosia and the money raised would be used to help them. The activity attracted millions of people, yet some doubt whether the collected money would be spent effectively. Thepaper.cn comments:

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China-phobic US in codependency trap

Seemingly at odds with the world, US President Donald Trump has once again raised the possibility of a trade conflict with China. On Aug 14, he instructed the US Trade Representative to investigate whether China has infringed intellectual property rights. By framing this effort under Section 301 of the United States Trade Act of 1974, the Trump administration could impose high and widespread tariffs on Chinese imports.

Beijing ready to share governance experiences

China assumed the BRICS' chair on Jan 1, 2017, and will play host to the upcoming 9th BRICS Summit. The year of China's chairmanship also marks the beginning of the second decade of BRICS cooperation.

BRICS evolving for stronger partnership

The 9th BRICS Summit, which opens in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, within a week, is being held at a time when the group's circumstances and the international situation both are quite different from those in 2009, when the BRIC grouping officially came into being in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Are bomb shelters the only option to escape a nuclear war?

US President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that "all options" are again on the table after Pyongyang tested a ballistic missile, this time a rare firing of a projectile over Japan.