Countryside doctors deserve due respect and recompense

A COLLECTIVE RESIGNATION letter recently submitted by 36 village doctors in Zhusha town, Tongxu county, in Central China's Henan province, has attracted extensive attention. Beijing News comments:

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Trade talks no reason to drop guard

President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump may have agreed at the G20 summit in Osaka to resume trade negotiations, but the path to ending the trade war remains far from clear. After all, the two leaders had reached a similar agreement at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in December 2018 and that agreement ultimately failed, not least because the United States administration mistook China's conciliatory attitude for weakness.

China, Japan and ROK can all benefit from FTA

Editor's Note: The Center for Northeast Asian Studies at Pangoal Institution, a Beijing-based public policy think tank, released a report on China-Japan-Republic of Korea Free Trade Area negotiations in June. Excerpts follow:

White cannot be called black in Xinjiang

The China-skeptics in the United States are at it again. This time they are using the pretext of human rights violation to criticize China's policy of combating terrorism and separatism in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and improving the livelihoods of the people there. But by so doing, they have exposed their ulterior motives, not least because they have no evidence to prove their allegations, and thus become the target of both ridicule and anger.

Life on Mars? That'll be us

AT A RECENT CONFERENCE, Ouyang Ziyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that China will launch a mission to Mars with Martian satellite, Martian lander, as well as Martian rover. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Common prosperity will help bridge the understanding gap

Editor's note: Beijing rebuked Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, and Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong for their remarks about the violent protests in Hong Kong recently. China Daily writer Li Yang comments:

China stands ready to support Africa's game changing FTA

In a historic move to unleash Africa's growth potential by boosting intraregional trade, African leaders launched a continental free trade zone at the African Union Summit in Niamey, capital of Niger, on Sunday after 17 years of tough negotiations.

Restraint, diplomacy only way to defuse Iran crisis

By now, it is more than obvious that Washington is doubling down on its "maximum pressure" on Teheran, and the latter is desperately trying to divert such pressure.

Shandong can exploit its regional advantages to upgrade its economy

WITH THE CHINESE ECONOMY shifting to high-quality development, Shandong province should actively seek to upgrade its traditional economic structure. 21st Century Business Herald comments:

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Public awareness key to curbing pollution

As economic opportunities and the lure of modern lifestyle draw people to cities, the global trend of urbanization continues unabated even though the systems to support the consumption patterns of today's urban dwellers are strained by overburdened infrastructure and fiscal limitations. The result: traffic congestions, degraded waterways and air pollution. And Asian countries, especially China and India, face immense challenges to solve these problems and provide clean air to their citizens.