Authorities should ensure fairness by curbing 'gaokao immigration'

THE EDUCATION BUREAU in Shenzhen announced on Sunday that 32 students would not be allowed to sit this year's gaokao, or national college entrance exam, in the city because they were "gaokao immigrants". A China Youth Daily article commented:

More funds for barrier-free living

GAO YA, an 11-year-old blind girl in Harbin city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, is proud of walking 368 meters alone every day to and from school. She does not know that her mother accompanies her all the way. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

No challenge will prevent China's further progress

Editor's note: People expecting progress in the trade talks between China and the United States cannot help raising the question whether Washington is intent on pushing the negotiations that have gone through 11 rounds back to where they started. People's Daily comments:

Beijing still open to talks, but will not bow to tariffs

With China retaliating in kind to the United States hiking the existing "punitive" tariffs on Chinese goods, the world was not left long in suspense wondering how Beijing would react to Washington putting the kibosh on what was evidently an impending trade deal in such a high-handed manner.

Asian dialogue aims to build stronger sense of community

Barely three weeks after it hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which attracted participants from around the world, Beijing is now hosting the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations.

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Talks still possible but not on US terms

Editor's Note: The United States raised the tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent on Friday, when the 11th round of China-US trade talks ended. Will the US move affect the progress made until now to resolve the trade dispute? Four experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

Confucius Institutes promote UNESCO vision

By establishing 548 Confucius Institutes and 1193 Confucius Classrooms in 154 countries and regions, China has taken the initiative to spread the Chinese language and culture overseas in a peaceful and mutually beneficial way. And in so doing, China has used its limited resources to put the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity into practice.

Technology one of the solutions to the problem of global hunger

The hunt for technological solutions to global problems usually starts with figures. And in the case of hunger, those figures show us that after progress during the past decade we are slipping back. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2018 tells us that one in every nine people - 821 million human being in total - are hungry; 151 million children below five are too short for their age due to malnutrition and millions of children are at increased risk of dying due to malnutrition.

Terrorism threat in South Asia must be met with joint action

There are clear and worrying signs that the Islamic State terrorist group is seeking to regroup in South Asia: On Friday, it claimed it has established a "province" in India. Prior to this, it claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250 people.

Its remarkable resilience is key asset of the Chinese economy

ALMOST ALL THE MAJOR INDICATORS of the Chinese economy performed well in the first quarter, which grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year. The resilience of the Chinese economy provides the country with solid material foundation to maintain stable and healthy development, despite the external pressure. Beijing News commented on Monday:

China has not shut door on further trade talks

China has always attached great importance to the trade consultations with the United States, hoping that by engaging in them with sincerity, a final agreement could be reached on the basis of reciprocal respect and equal treatment.