Belt and Road harnessing mutual benefits

With Beijing set to host the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation from Thursday to Saturday, it's time to assess the achievements China has made in promoting the Belt and Road Initiative since it hosted the inaugural forum in 2017. To be sure, China has greatly advanced the initiative to improve infrastructure connectivity between Asia, especially China, and Europe and Africa by, among other things, creating more public goods. That the BRI has expanded beyond Eurasia shows China's efforts are yielding fruitful results across more regions.

Developing ICT key to securing cyberspace

China's national security authorities recently exposed three cyber espionage cases, in which some outside forces had launched cyberattacks to steal certain key national secrets. As such, China has no choice but to strengthen its cybersecurity.

Time to ignore Western critics and promote fruitful policies

Now and then some Western media outlets laugh at China's "fake" democracy. But the inconvenient truth is that for decades Western politicians and pundits alike have continued to deny that China's political system has outperformed their own in every metric that really matters.

Shipbuilders to walk the 'smart' path

China will acquire more smart shipbuilding technologies, particularly in areas such as the development of new generation liquefied natural gas carriers, internet-connected and high-efficiency manufacturing in its shipyards between 2019 and 2021, senior officials said on Friday.

Walmart banks on tech innovation

US retail giant Walmart Inc will continue to grow its hypermarkets, Sam's Club stores, and community-based smaller-sized supermarkets businesses in China with more advanced technologies, according to a top official.

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Lifesaving give and take

Xia Suisheng, a professor at Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and an organ transplant pioneer in China, died on Tuesday. His family members followed his wishes and donated his corneas to the hospital.

Domestic economists should develop own innovative theories

Editor's note: Justin Yifu Lin, an economist with Peking University and former chief economist and senior vice-president of the World Bank, gave a speech on China's economy at the ceremony to mark the founding of the School of Economics at Beijing-based Renmin University of China late last month. The following are excerpts from his speech:

Employers must be made to err on the safe side

A VIDEO CLIP recently went viral on the internet showing a worker holding two hard hats - a red one, which he said is for the use of the site managers, and a yellow one, which he said is for the use of ordinary workers - which after he knocked them together left the yellow one broken. Qianjiang Evening News comments:

US riding its hobby horse with suspicions about scholars

Instead of considering them intellectuals with whom to exchange ideas, it seems the United States now regards Chinese professors and scholars in the field of social sciences as spies, and is shutting the door to them.

Virtual way to save architectural heritage

THE NOTRE DAME FIRE has been extinguished, but its spire and a large portion of its wooden roof have been damaged. Maybe digital technology could help to better protect architectural cultural heritage, comments China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang:

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