Opinion
- The China-ROK FTA will greatly accelerate economic integration between the two Asian counties. It will also produce multiple strategic effects.
- In the same room that Pony Ma, chief executive of Tencent Holdings, proposes wider application of mobile Internet technology, Xue Haiying, a sanitation worker from Tianjin Municipality, is pushing for better housing and medicare for her colleagues.
- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's government work report to the national legislature on Thursday has not only revealed the blueprint for China's development in the year to come, but also showed the government's willingness to make easer access for foreign investors.
- China's 2015 economic growth target was lowered to around 7 percent -- a level not seen since 2004 -- in a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.
Western double standard demonizes China's normal military growth
The double-standard deeply rooted in some Western countries' minds makes them biased when they look at China, which, according to their imagination, should better be a giant market and concurrently a military dwarf.
China Focus: Business leaders, economists on China's "around-7-pct" slowdown
In a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday, China set the growth target at "around 7 percent" for 2015, or 0.5 percentage point lower than that of 2014.
- China's ongoing two annual political sessions have once again hit major headlines, as the world is anticipating the country's new measures to cope with its growth slowdown to a state of "new normal."
Foreign experts expect China's reform to secure sustainable growth
China's efforts to overhaul its economic structure will yield sustainable development for the country and also benefit the global economy, several foreign scholars and business leaders told Xinhua over China's annual "two sessions."
- The influence of the interest rate cut needs to be felt by the real economy before curbing deflation.
- Is deliberative democracy a creation of the West, or a tradition of China? What is the difference between deliberative democracy and representative democracy?
- The People's Bank of China (PBoC) last Saturday announced to lower benchmark interest rate for the second time, as well as to raise the ceiling that determines the maximum rate that bank can offer to 1.3 times the benchmark.
- The release of a list of names of generals who have been investigated or convicted recently hints at what is to come from the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) countercorruption drive in 2015.
- There are no precedents for what Chinese President Xi is aiming for, especially in a country the size of China.
- The recent launch of the "Four Comprehensives" - comprehensive prosperity, reform, law and party discipline - will put the Chinese Dream on the road to reality.
Justifiable for China to strengthen cyber security regulation
In light of successive revelations in recent years of spying scandals perpetrated by the United States with its sophisticated hacking technology, it is justifiable for China to strengthen cyber security regulation amid growing technology trade between the world's two leading economies.
Highlights of the Sessions >>
- Full text: Report on China's central, local budgets
- Full text: Report on China's economic, social development plan
- Full text: Report on the Work of the Government (2015)
- Highlights of work report of Supreme People's Court
- Big data on China's rule of law
- China to speed up drafting anti-corruption law
