“Local governments nationwide should pay more attention to the street stall economy, which makes significant contributions to employment. Local governments should prioritize employment over a city’s appearance and provide local stall owners with proper sp

Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the National Economic Research Institute, on the Wechat account of the China Association of Employment Promotion in late March

“The key to revitalizing the Chinese economy is to reposition the industrial system as a major driver of growth. China needs to implement a major expansionary macro-policy, no matter whether people label it as ‘monetary easing ’or ‘stimulus.’ we have to enable the industrial system, which has long been suppressed by liquidity constraints and capacity reduction campaigns. Once the industrial system returns to a path of growth, technological progress and innovation will accelerate, and emerging industries will rise.”

Lu Feng, a professor at Peking University, in a March 18 article on news portal guancha.cn

“The US’S generalizing of the concept of national security, arbitrarily changing rules and tightening export controls have not only set more barriers to normal economic and trade cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises, but also greatly increased uncertainties in the global semiconductor industry. This has severely impacted the win-win cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises and also impaired their legal rights and interests.”

An unnamed spokesperson from China’s Ministry of Commerce in response to the US’S further upgrading of export controls on semiconductors on March 31

“The importance of theses written based on international research collaboration lies in the fact that they will be read more globally. Some universities, despite their significant research output, remain low in global reputation and influence because of a relatively low proportion of international research collaboration.”

Liu Hong, an associate researcher at the Fudan Development Institute, and Zhang Duanhong, director of the Education Policy Research Center at Tongji University, calling for Chinese universities to increase international technological cooperation in their article for China Science Daily in late March