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WTO reform should benefit all members

Editor's Note: The United States has repeatedly called on the World Trade Organization to cancel China's and some other members' developing country status and the special and differential treatments that come with it. Does the US' demand serve the WTO's interests and goals, and how should the organization's reform be carried out? Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

A new energy frontier called 'Polar Silk Road'

Research and exploration in the Arctic are fundamental to understanding and tack-ling climate change issues. With the melting of Arctic ice, the polar region could provide an opportunity to better understand the effects of global warming.

Confucius Institute can help eliminate cultural ignorance and illiteracy

For a journalist, not being able to understand what an interviewee is saying is truly awkward. My latest experience, however, is one of both embarrassment and excitement.

China and EU show strength of their fruitful partnership

China and the European Union reaffirmed their shared commitment to further cementing their partnership and safeguarding free trade and multilateralism in a joint statement released on Tuesday at the conclusion of the China-EU Summit in Brussels, which Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended.

Robust economy gets vote of confidence

Giving a vote of confidence in the world's second-largest economy's momentum of expansion, the International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for China's GDP growth this year to 6.3 percent on Tuesday, up from 6.2 percent in its January prediction.

Local law executors' big fish are all too often small fry

THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued their opinions on the handling of organized crime cases on Tuesday. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Seeing something never before seen

MORE THAN 200 YEARS after British natural philosopher John Michell guessed the existence of big-massive objects from which even light could not escape, and 50 years after US theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the term "black hole", humans got their first look at one on Wednesday evening, when the Event Horizon Telescope project made public the first photo of a black hole at a coordinated news conference jointly held in six cities on three continents. Humankind has been waiting for this for a long time, comments China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang:

Judgements against tycoons must be able to pass retrial test

Editor's note: The Supreme People's Court's First Circuit Court in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, announced on Wednesday that the sentence of Gu Chujun, former chairman of the refrigerator maker Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings, had been commuted to five years in prison. China Daily reporter Wu Yixue comments:

Hot words: Learn more to make your country stronger

学习强国(xuéxí qiángguó)

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Building bridges between China and CEE

Editor's Note: Premier Li Keqiang will meet with the leaders of 16 Central and Eastern European countries in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on Friday to not only strengthen the 16+1 cooperation framework but also to improve overall China-Europe ties.