OF THE MORE THAN 1 MILLION EXPRESS DELIVERY WORKERS NATIONWIDE, 90 percent work without a formal contract with their employers; some of them only sleep four hours a day. The bad working conditions and low pay of express delivery workers have aroused nationwide attention. And if their situation does not improve, that might hurt the nation's burgeoning e-commerce industry. National Business Daily comments:
MA GUANGYU, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, recently called for more investment in pre-school education and extending free compulsory education so it includes kindergarten. Guangzhou Daily comments:
The Belt and Road Initiative, comprising the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, has borne enough fruits in its third year, yet it is expected to yield much more in the future.
The Republic of Korea's defense ministry signed a land swap deal with Lotte Group on Tuesday to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system in the country, which China and Russia believe will further compromise regional security. Reports say THAAD could be installed as early as June, before the ROK elects a new president.
China's supply-side structural reform met with preliminary success last year. Some favorable factors stabilized the economy, improving the quality of and optimizing the economic structure. Thus the expected GDP growth of about 6.7 percent was realized.
In his first speech to Congress last week, US President Donald Trump kept asking friends and partners from Europe to the Middle East to the Pacific to pay their "fair share" of the cost of the alliances.
Has President Donald Trump rewritten history in promising "America First"?
Most of the world's hopes for the outcome of the forthcoming annual meetings of China's lawmakers and political advisers can be summed up in three words: stability, stability, stability.
The fast development of robotics has raised public concern about robots replacing workers not only on factory floors but also in offices, and causing a global unemployment crisis. To an extent, people's concerns seem justified.
During the ongoing annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, China watchers scrutinize them all - the official speeches, press conferences, policy announcements, sideline comments, personnel positioning or actions.
"No THAAD! Lotte out of China!" This is what was written on the banner held by a group of protesters in front of a Lotte-invested supermarket in the city of Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province, on Thursday.
The year 2020 is critical to the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), as the country's leadership has pledged to build a well-off society in an all-round way by then. Almost every industry has its individual (as well as collective) five-year plan with specific objectives and ways to implement it. And unlike many others, the dairy industry has a qualitative-oriented, rather than quantity-oriented, five-year plan.
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