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STATISTICS SHOW THAT although China leads the world in installed capacity, much of the energy generated by hydro power, wind power and photovoltaic power is wasted. Beijing News commented on Monday:

The growth in electricity consumption has slowed, while the supply of electricity has increased rapidly, particularly because of the China’s growing number of power plants, which has resulted in a lot of new energy electricity generated by being wasted.

The vast inland area of western China produces a lot of clean energy generated electricity, but it is the coastal areas of East China that are the main consumers of electricity. That the country’s capability to store energy and its power grid transmission capacity are lower than the requirements, causes a huge waste of hydro-, wind- and photovoltaic-generated electricity.

The government should divert more of its subsidies from the generation of clean energy to the storage and transmission of energy. And the dramatic advancement of the electricity generation technology in solar power and hydropower over the past few years also justifies the withdrawal of government support.

Introducing more market competition to the new energy sector can stimulate new research and new developments. It is time for the government to recalibrate the focus of its new energy policies, which does not mean China changes its stand on clean energy, but instead that it increases the energy usage rate and stops wasting electricity.

A VIDEO CLIP showing a woman beating a child a dozen times within a minute in an elevator after the doors closed has gone viral. The incident was confirmed to have happened in a residential community in Zhengzhou, Central China’s Henan province, and the local police said they have detained the suspect, who was the child’s nanny. Hebnews.cn comments:

What happened in Zhengzhou is just the latest in a recent series of incidents involving nannies.

One thing that has proved effective in developed countries is building an entrance threshold for the profession of home care helpers. In simple words, a “wall” must be built so that nannies and home care helpers with bad records will be kept outside, and the children and senior citizens who need care can stay safe inside.

The past few years have seen the mushrooming of home care service providers. The industry has developed so fast that many companies fail to check job applicants’ past records or make an evaluation of their performance. As a result, many people who are not suitable have been employed as carers.

It is necessary to revise the law and give home care companies the responsibility of checking the records of nursing job applicants, so as to prevent those unfit for the job from entering the profession. Those with criminal records, unstable characters, as well as mental health problems should all be forbidden from becoming carers.

And in case such violence happens in the future, the home care companies that recruit nannies and home care helpers and introduce them to employers should be punished for failing in their responsibility of record checking. Only with the wall being solidly built could we prevent violence against children and senior citizens from happening again.