AS HEAVY SMOG has plagued more parts of China in recent years, foreign manufacturers of anti-pollution face masks, especially the US company 3M, have achieved huge success in the Chinese market. China Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:
SUNDAY was the first day that fireworks were on sale in Beijing for the coming Spring Festival holiday with stalls inside the Third Ring Road starting their festival business. However, the sales on the first day were poor. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:
With many rural migrants in cities going back to their home villages for Spring Festival, the holiday is an opportunity for many empty-nested villages to come alive again.
People are always lamenting that the flavor of Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 28 this year, has waned and it is not what it used to be, as a result how to preserve this Chinese tradition has become a hot topic.
President Xi Jinping's powerful message on economic globalization delivered in Davos elicited an exceptionally warm response worldwide. His call for the international community to work together to make economic globalization work for all has rekindled hope and confidence in the process which has been losing steam and even direction.
President Xi Jinping attended the World Economic Forum in Davos with a delegation of business elites, scholars and officials last Tuesday. They made their own contributions while eagerly hearing speakers at an event on how to brighten the world's gloomy prospects.
The 30 Sino-Philippine operative projects worth $3.7 billion on poverty reduction, announced after a meeting between Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng and Philippine Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez in Beijing on Monday, mark further progress in improving bilateral relations since October when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing.
Urbanization will be a main engine for sustainable economic development in China, and urbanization will also promote the restructuring of China's economy, as it boosts consumption, investment and development of the service sector.
AT A RECENT SESSION OF THE GUANGDONG PEOPLE'S CONGRESS, the provincial legislature, representatives from several cities with relatively poor economic conditions complained about the widening gap in the social security fund. With society aging, the number of elderly residents receiving pension payments has grown at a much faster rate than the number of young people paying taxes. That is a problem not only for Guangdong, says a comment on Beijing News:
IN THE EYES OF MANY, the phenomenon of "leftover youngsters" is not new as generations of ambitious young adults from rural areas have chosen to explore the life-changing opportunities offered by cities, and, unavoidably, some struggle on their own before finally settling down. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
China's economy grew 6.7 percent year-on-year in 2016, its slowest growth in 26 years. Yet still within the government's target range set for the year, official data showed Friday.
That President Xi Jinping's attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the first by China's head of state, has drawn worldwide attention testifies to the sharp rise in China's international status and its growing voice in international affairs.
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