Zhang Monan

Growth quality not quantity

The average 7 percent growth target set by the Chinese government in the recently published 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) demonstrates its determination to achieve normal and sustainable economic development after the previous pursuit of fast-track growth.

Dan Steinbock

The G7 itch in G20 times

Since its summit in Seoul, G20 has been increasingly criticized in the West. But with the shift in economic and political power from the West to the East, G20 reflects inclusive growth.

Han Dongping

Sino-US relations at critical juncture

The United State of America, the only remaining superpower, has declined significantly due to the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression. China, on the other hand, has become more and more robust - both comprehensively and economically - during the last few decades.

Marcos Fava Neves

From farms to...everything

In this first article of 2011 I wish that you have strict discipline and controls to achieve your targets. My promise to you in 2011 is to produce 20 stories to be published for the China Daily community. Let's see at the end of the year if I reached the target.

Feng Zhaokui

Stumbling stone at Cancun

Japan's unwillingness to extend the Kyoto Protocol is putting the global climate change architecture at risk and undermining the ongoing United Nations climate talks in Cancun.

Dan Steinbock

Sino-US ties in multipolar era

In the past, the ties between the United States and China were governed by the constraints of the Cold War. But the Cold War ended two decades ago. Now, it is time to adjust Sino-US relations to the multipolar era.

Marcos Fava Neves

Creating a winning concept

If it is difficult to run a company nowadays, to have a strategic plan towards innovation and innovative concepts is even more difficult.

Chen Xiangyang

Importance of China's neighborhood

Some of China's neighboring countries have encountered considerable political fluctuations, even political turbulence.

David Shambaugh

A bridge over troubled waters

The second US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) ended a couple of days ago and the 200-strong American delegation has left Beijing after two days of intensive talks with their Chinese counterparts. How should we judge these important talks?

Han Dongping

No nuclear security until every country is secure

It really does not matter how many security measures we take to secure the nuclear materials and how many nations cooperate with one another. We will never be secure unless everybody else is also secure in this world.

He Wenping

Equal platform, mutual benefit

The rapidly evolving China-Africa relationship has elicited different types of response from the international community, from absurd accusations of neocolonialism to balanced views of mutual-benefit development.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The Shanghai Expo: Some things everyone needs to know

In a few days, the countdown clocks in Shanghai will all finally hit zero, but some foreigners may ask why China moved right from holding the 2008 Olympics to gearing for this new grand spectacle.

Lin Zhe

It's not age that really matters

Amid the painstaking efforts of the Chinese government to fight corruption, a new phenomenon has emerged in which many officials were discovered to have misused their power in the "golden age" of their careers.