Job market not what it used to be for returnees

Editor's note: A survey shows about 30 percent of returnees with foreign degrees are not satisfied with their first job, whose average monthly income is about 7,000 yuan ($1,043), comparable to the wage of their domestic counterparts, and about 27 percent of sampled employers think the returnees have grandiose aims but puny abilities. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Hot words: Maritime community with a shared future

海洋命运共同体(hǎiyáng mìngyùn gòngtóngtǐ)

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Sri Lanka blasts a challenge to all nations

Editor's Note: The eight explosions in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have claimed more than 300 lives and left over 500 people injured.

Stricter food safety, better nutrition for all

The ongoing two-day International Trade and Food Safety Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, which ends on Wednesday, is a continuation of the debates to discuss the future of food safety, which started in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last February, at an event co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization and the African Union.

Much ado about low housing prices in some cities

Hegang, a small fourth-tier city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, has become a buzzword on the internet because some news reports have said that one can buy an apartment there for as little as 20,000 yuan ($2,982), which is not enough to buy even 1 square meter of housing in most of the first-or second-tier cities.

Using social funds to propel BRI forward

Encouraging public and social welfare funds to take part in the Belt and Road Initiative by setting up a comprehensive financial service mechanism comprising social, development and commercial financing can not only provide more capital for Belt and Road projects, but also will help make the initiative more socially beneficial.

Important lessons to be learned from Sri Lanka blasts

THE DEATH TOLL IN THE EIGHT blasts that hit Sri Lanka on Sunday continued rising on Monday. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Belt and Road transforming vision into rewarding actions

Like it or not, the Belt and Road Initiative, which some have never stopped stigmatizing as a debt trap or a geopolitical tool from day one, has thrived to become the most productive driver of global growth and interconnectivity.

Access to your info written all over your face

Editor's note: Facial recognition, iris scanning and fingerprint verification, scenarios once only seen in science fiction and spy movies, have become part of people's daily lives with the advances of information technology. ThePaper.cn comments:

PLA Navy's 70th birthday shows how far it has come

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy turned 70 on Tuesday. It is a time for reflecting on its beginning and how over the past seven decades it has overcome numerous difficulties to grow into a modern naval force. It is also a time when the country's resolve to build the PLA Navy into a world-class force can be consolidated.

Chance to strengthen naval cooperation

THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY celebrates its 70th founding anniversary on Tuesday. Liu Qiang, a researcher in strategic studies with the National University of Defense Technology, comments: