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A decade of sweeping economic changes

For the West, the year 2008 marked the beginning of a period of crisis, recession and uneven recovery. The year was an important turning point for China, too, but one that was followed by a decade of rapid progress that few could have foreseen.

Future course of World Bank concerns all

Editor's Note: David Malpass, US President Donald Trump's pick for World Bank president, began his five-year term at the helm of the 75-year-old organization on Tuesday. How will the World Bank perform under Malpass, who until Monday was the US under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs? Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

Well placed to meet demographic challenges

China faces the challenges of a declining workforce, falling fertility rate and a fast rising aging population. The magnitude of the problem can be gauged from just one set of data: the decline in China's fertility rate in the past four decades equals that of the Western countries in about one century.

ICU for employees working illegal 996

A PROGRAMMER shared a self-made website called"996.ICU" on github.com, a well-known code-sharing platform, to protest against the long working hours required by many internet companies. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Cooperation, coordination can outweigh differences

President Xi Jinping's three-nation visit to Europe last month produced tangible fruits and showed that despite any differences that may exist between China and the European Union, they have the common desire to strengthen cooperation.

Britain still trying to meddle in HK affairs

Subsequent to the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's report that attempts to tarnish the implementation of "one country, two systems" in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by coining the new term "one country, one and a half systems", a group of British politicians went a step further on Monday by trying to intervene in the SAR's legislative process.

City's public relations initiative cooks up a storm of approval

THE YANGZHOU MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT in Jiangsu province opened three of its subsidized canteens to the public during the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, and it plans to also open them to the public during the Labor Day and the National Day holidays. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Aspirations for better life lead to nation's rejuvenation

Editor's note: Clean governance, economic prosperity and an equitable society are the aspirations of the Chinese people for a better life and also the fundamental goal of the Chinese nation's development and progress. Pan Wei, an international politics professor with Peking University, comments in Guancha.cn:

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ILO marks centenary with hope for the future

The International Labour Organization was established in 1919 by the Peace Conference, which ended World War I, as an autonomous organization associated with the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations. The aim of the founding members, among them China, was to promote and achieve global peace. They were of the view that peace and prosperity were the two sides of the same coin with no lasting peace possible without shared prosperity. This is reflected in the ILO Constitution which states that poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere.

Will Reiwa era make Japan choose peace?

Despite many claiming the naming of Japan's new imperial era is a break with tradition, the two Chinese characters that make up Reiwa, the era beginning May 1, is as traditional as it could be. The new era begins with Crown Prince Naruhito ascending to the throne on the first day of next month to succeed his father Emperor Akihito, whose reign, the Heisei era, ends on the last day of this month.