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Editorials
'Brighter than the sun'
It had not come up until the very last minute in Premier Wen Jiabao's two-hour press conference that concludes the annual sessions of the national legislature and political advisory body.
Op-Ed ContributorsDebate: Is it proper for China to grow GM rice now?
Permission to allow field trials of genetically modified (GM) rice seed has raised food safety concerns.
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Highlights
Political reform on track
With its economy growing at 8.7 percent last year amid the global economic downturn and slated to become the second largest in the world this year, China has been constantly confronted with a question from the foreign media: How is its political system being structured?
Opening policy to continue
For China watchers who have been keen to know the role China will play in the international arena, they should not miss two explicit messages from Premier Wen Jiabao during his meeting with the press yesterday.
Improve consumer rights
The World Consumer Rights Day that we observe together today is more than a day of action to address growing consumer grievances.
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From the Readers
Better quake drills needed
The photograph with the report, Earthquake experts calm nerves on the mainland, shows students hiding under their desks during an earthquake safety drill.
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Huang Xiangyang
US, stop acting as guardian of human rights
Anyone with an IQ above 70 could see the folly in Washington for keeping up with the annual practice of pointing fingers at the alleged human rights misdeeds in every country and region world over except itself.
21st century, a century of China?
The Chinese Century is a neologism referring to the possibility that the 21st century will be dominated by China, similar to how the 20th century is often called the American Century when the United States was in the lead of the world in economy, culture, technology, politics and military. Is Chinese Century a reasonable prediction or an overstated praise?
China says water pollution double official figure
A new Chinese government survey of the country's environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the government's official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored.