Initiative based on principle of win-win cooperation

As the best embodiment of win-win cooperation, the Belt and Road Initiative seeks to foster mutual benefit by integrating the economic development of China with that of the rest of the world. China can ensure cooperation leads to mutual benefit because it is the world's largest trader of goods and second-largest of services, accounts for about 10 percent of the world's total imports and 20 percent of import growth, and is the largest trading partner of more than 120 countries and regions.

Final push required to fully realize 2020 goal

Looking back at the difficulties the Chinese people have overcome in the past seven decades under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, especially during the four decades since 1978, the country and its people have reason to feel proud of what they have achieved thanks to the painstaking efforts of several generations.

US displays harmful belief in its exceptionalism again

By once again waving the stick of unilateralism on the Iran issue, the United States risks disrupting international relations and international trade. The US decision has already raised concerns about global oil supplies and sent crude oil prices to their highest levels since October.

Baptism of fire for electric cars and their batteries

AFTER A WHITE TESLA SEDAN burst into flames in an underground garage in Shanghai on Sunday evening, a NIO ES8 model went up in smoke in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Monday. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Law to take hard line on vaccines

THE DRAFT VACCINE ADMINISTRATION LAW was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for a second reading on Saturday. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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.