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China called on the European Union to prudently handle the ongoing trade dispute over the nation's exports of solar products, warning that an unfavorable ruling may incur countermeasures from China, a senior commerce official said on Monday.

What are the limits to China’s industrial revolution? How much more can the economy grow before it reaches its absolute maximum, when arguably its exponential growth will halt from inertia? And, if that happens, will the next step be downward? If we assume that growth such as China’s must inevitably reach a pinnacle, how much longer will it be before its industrial expansion reaches its utmost limit?

One of the great successes of the Chinese government's social security policies in the past decade has been its expansion into the hitherto untouched area of the nation's countryside.

The introduction of nationwide rural pension scheme in 2009 was a landmark move. By the end of 2011, it had covered 326.43 million people, a number larger than that of the entire US social security system. The pension recognizes that farmers never strictly retire from work and instead become increasingly unable to maintain their income as they start getting old and weaker.

Editor's note: China Tibet Online, a multi-language media website dedicated to providing news stories on Tibetans living in China, has recently published a bylined opinion article on the "Self-immolation Guide" produced by the Dalai Lama clique. Following is the full text of the article published by Xinhua News Agency:

Before the turn of this century, Liu Mingwen was a driver, a machinist and an official of a State-owned farm in China's most northeast province, Heilongjiang. Now he is a hostel owner in China's Snow Town.

"We can't rely on excessive logging any longer and need to take full advantage of snow resources," said Liu, a former employee of the Dahailin Bureau of Forestry and the first hostel owner in the snow town.

The growth of Chinese outward foreign direct investment has garnered worldwide attention. Many businesspeople, officials, and scholars are aware that a substantial proportion of this investment has gone into the energy and resources sector. Quite a few, however, do not realize that Chinese companies have invested significantly in non-resource sectors such as automobiles and auto parts, aviation, banking, biotechnology, entertainment, and even tourism.

A fresh rise in domestic housing prices is testing the tolerance of the government and public, and highlights the need to expedite a new round of fiercer regulations to rein in the intractable housing market.

According to the data from the China Index Academy, the average price of new homes in China's 100 major cities rose to 9,812 yuan ($1,577) per square meter in January, an increase of 1 percent from December and the eighth consecutive increase month-on-month. It is also 1.2 percent higher than a year earlier.

In its World Report 2013 published on Friday, Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization on human rights research and advocacy headquartered in New York, continues lashing out at China, saying "its human rights record remained poor in 2012, with minimal significant progress on political, civil, socio-economic or cultural rights".

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reiterated Tokyo's hard-line position on the Diaoyu Islands, during a tour of Okinawa, amid continuing tension over the East China Sea islands.

Observers said a speech by Abe on Saturday represented a setback.

Abe was commenting on patrols by Chinese government vessels in the waters off the islands, while praising officers of Japan's regional coast guard office on the southern island of Okinawa.

This year will be critical for the Korean Peninsula. All the countries engaged in the six-party talks have seen leadership transitions and therefore, may change their policies on the Korean Peninsula issue in accordance with the changing international situation.

Myanmar pledged to maintain peace and security on its border with China when President U Thein Sein met visiting Chinese officials in Yangon on Saturday.

The promise to China came shortly after the Myanmar government announced a cease-fire following a recent escalation of clashes in the country's north.

Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying, special envoy of the Chinese government, visited Myanmar on Saturday. During her meeting with U Thein Sein, Fu raised China's concerns about Myanmar and U Thein Sein briefed Fu the latest conflict.

If you look at recent figures on China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) you will find two opposite trends. Outward FDI rose almost twelvefold — from $5.5 billion a year to more than $65 billion a year — from 2004 to 2011, and is expected to reach $150 billion by 2015. On the other hand, inward FDI fell 0.2 percent in October from a year earlier to $8.3 billion, the 11th fall in 12 months.