If you're reading this, it means you survived Blue Monday.
British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was a master of the cute quote and Chinese President Xi Jinping must have won many hearts and minds at Davos when he quoted Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
The latest Central Economic Work Conference of China has put boosting the real economy high on the agenda for 2017. A real economy that provides products and services is the key to a country's economic success and the finance industry should serve its development.
China has transformed from a capital importing country to a capital exporting one. This is an important characteristic of the new normal of the Chinese economy.
Azerbaijan, a modern south Caucasus country on the Caspian Sea - rich in oil and natural resources - is a key link in the Silk Road Economic Belt, the Chinese vision for a route connecting Asia, Europe and the rest of the world.
Delivering his keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping reiterated China's commitment to opening-up and its firm opposition to trade protectionism.
If you're reading this, it means you survived Blue Monday.
Insisting on dialogue instead of confrontation
While both global trade and China's economy enter 2017 with decent growth momentum, we expect GDP growth to ease to 6.3 percent this year due to a harsher climate for China's exports in the United States, slower real estate investment and, importantly, a change in tone of policymakers toward somewhat less emphasis on growth.
Some hawkish members of the Donald Trump team have repeatedly adopted war-like rhetoric about the incoming administration's trade relations with China and other developing countries. They seem to want to send the message that other countries need the United States more than the other way round.
After months of havering, Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced that the United Kingdom plans to make a clean break from the European Union and not opt for "anything that leaves us half-in, half-out".
THE LEAKING OF A DOCUMENT by a provincial meteorological bureau, instructing its affiliated agencies to suspend issuing smog alerts, aroused fierce discussions online because people worry who could protect their health without the alert system. The China Meteorological Administration responded that they suspended the alerts because they have different standards to the environmental protection departments, and the two are now discussing the issue. Beijing News comments:
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