PRESS DIGEST - China - Feb 26
SHANGHAI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Thursday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL
- China Petroleum & Chemical Corp spokesman Lv Dapeng said on Wednesday that he could not confirm a report that Chinese economic planners are considering merging state oil firms to create a giant company.
SHANGHAI SECURITIES NEWS
- The likelihood of the government rolling out massive stimulus measures to boost the property market in 2015 is small, the paper reported citing sources with direct knowledge of the issue.
CHINA DAILY
- The numerous steps China's leadership has taken over the past two years, from a crackdown on corruption to promotion of the rule of law, have helped boost public confidence in the government's reform policies, it said in an editorial.
PEOPLE'S DAILY
- Chinese people should mind their manners in public when travelling during the Chinese New Year holiday, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party of China said in an editorial, singling out gambling, spitting and smoking as bad behaviors.
For Hong Kong and South China newspapers see..... (Reporting by the Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Sunil Nair)
