Peninsula needs cooperation, not missiles, to restore peace

Just three days after the abortive launch of a number of unspecified projectiles, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired what was believed to be a ballistic missile that flew over Japan on Tuesday morning, prompting an emergency phone call between Japanese and US leaders that ended with a vow to put more pressure on Pyongyang.

Trains ride to standardization

With innovation playing an increasingly important role in economic growth, the standardization strategy has become a powerful force promoting industrial upgrading and spurring nascent industries. The more "Chinese standards" are recognized internationally, the more powerful technological support they will provide for the transformation of Chinese manufacturing from "Made in China" to "Designed in China".

Tengger case shows even big firms can't escape penalty for polluting

PASSING THE VERDICT in the Tengger Desert pollution case, the Intermediary People's Court of Zhongwei, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, said on Monday that the eight polluting enterprises should pay 569 million yuan ($86 million) for the restoration of the contaminated soil and another 6 million yuan to a public welfare fund for environmental damage. Beijing News comments:

The dilemma of takeout deliverymen

SEVENTY-SIX TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN SHANGHAIin the first half of this year involved takeout deliverymen, some of whom were killed, according to Shanghai police. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Tuesday:

Focus should shift from food security to soil preservation

CHINA'S FOOD PRODUCTIONhas been increasing since the abolition of the agricultural tax - introduced more than a thousand years ago- in 2004. But food imports, too, have increased steadily and significantly in recent years. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:

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Major country diplomacy bearing fruits

Delivering a keynote speech at a high-level workshop on July 26, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, emphasized the need to advance diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, while offering a glimpse into the key themes of the 19th CPC National Congress later this year.

IMF misreads the dynamics of debt

The International Monetary Fund recently said China's average GDP growth in the next two years is expected to be 6.4 percent- higher than the earlier forecast of 6 percent. But a higher GDP growth is expected because of "the government's reluctance to rein in 'dangerous' levels of debt", the IMF said while also predicting China's growth will be 6.7 percent this year- also higher than the earlier forecast.

EU is not totally safe against terrorists despite strict measures

From the bloody airport and metro terrorist attacks in Brussels in March to a truck driver plowing through shoppers in a Christmas market in Berlin in December, 2016 was a year of sorrow and anger for Europe as the European Union suffered more deadly attacks following the bloody incidents in Paris in 2015. And contrary to what many people believe, the EU has not seen absolute peace even in the months following the Berlin attack. In fact, safety in the EU is becoming even more worrisome.

Stricter steps can curb pyramid schemes

Three graduates died within a month after being hounded by pyramid scheme gangs, say recent media reports. Why have pyramid schemes become a threat to personal safety?

US ignores its warships pose major threat to other vessels

In an apparent bid to quell Western concerns over a series of accidents involving US naval vessels, General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, the US Pacific Air Forces commander, insisted the US "freedom of navigation" operations in the South China Sea have not suffered a setback and the US military will continue them to combat China's territorial claims.

Racism in US rooted in culture

The white-supremacist protest on Aug 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, against the proposed removal of the statue of a Confederate general in the American Civil War (1861-65) snowballed into riots, in which a counter-protestor was killed and many people were injured.