Historical opportunity to be a cyber power

Editor's note: At a national conference on cybersecurity and informatization on Friday and Saturday, President Xi Jinping called for "keenly" grasping the historic opportunity informatization has offered, in order to build the country into a strong cyber power. Three experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang on the issue. Excerpts follow:

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Heart-to-heart talks can be new marker for ties

The global spotlight will be on the truce village of Panmunjom on the Korean Peninsula on Friday as the leaders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea are holding their summit there.

Hainan shows it may have learned its housing lesson

The latest restrictions on property purchases announced by the local authorities in Hainan province on Sunday are the toughest both nationwide and in the tropical island's own history.

Gridlock in smaller cities is a sign of progress, and problems

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT statistics indicate that traffic congestion in third-and fourth-tier cities has worsened markedly in the first quarter of the year, while the first-and second-tier cities' traffic conditions have improved since last year. Beijing News comments:

Digital reading does not need to be superficial

MORE THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE SURVEYED said they prefer digital reading to reading books, according to a survey report published by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication last week before the 23rd World Book Day. China Youth Daily comments:

Poor sense of risk led to dragon boat tragedy in Guilin

SEVENTEEN PEOPLE in Guilin in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region drowned after two dragon boats capsized. Beijing News comments:

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Diaz-Canel will infuse vigor into ties

Cuba witnessed a historic transition of power on Thursday with outgoing president Raul Castro handing over presidency to the first vice-president, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Cuba has got its first leader born after the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

China and India see upswing in relations

High-level visits between India and China have never seen such a scale and speed. On Tuesday, India's ministers for external affairs and defense Sushma Swaraj and Nirmala Sitharaman will respectively attend the foreign ministers' and defense ministers' meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing.

US attack on Syria based on flimsy grounds

Alleging that the Bashar al-Assad government used chemical weapons in Douma, eastern Ghouta, the US, Britain and France fired nearly 100 cruise missiles on Syria on April 14, further ravaging the already battered country and its people.

Media games won't hurt Belt and Road planned projects

Last week, a sensational headline, "EU ambassadors band together against Silk Road", appeared on Handelsblatt Global, the digital edition of the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, saying 27 of the 28 ambassadors of European Union member states to Beijing have sharply criticized China's "Silk Road" projects. The ambassador from Hungary was reportedly an exception.