Archive for the 'health' Category

• 07.08.08 Living in China: Study finds obesity may be a growing problem among kids in Shanghai
  
  "Researchers are concerned that obesity may become a bigger problem among children in Shanghai after completing a study that found kids here have almost the same average height and weight as those in the United States, Shanghai News Times reported. The research team, under the leadership of Jiang Yifang, dean of children nutrition at the Children Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, found that boys aged 10 to 15 were slightly taller and heavier on average than those in the US..."  read on
  
  posted in health, united states, living, shanghai, china, trends
• 05.06.08 Living in China: Shanghai heads list of expats’ favorite cities
  
  "Shanghai maintains the highest quality of life on Chinese mainland for Asian expats, but environmental pollution problem is still a concern, according to the latest survey. The Location Ranking Survey, conducted by one of the world's largest human resources organizations, ECA International, ranked Shanghai in 11th place in Asia and 78th in the world in terms of expat living conditions. The city retained its top spot among the 13 cities in Chinese mainland that included Beijing, Nanjing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Xiamen..."  read on
  
  posted in health, real estate, macao, living, hong kong, china, shanghai, beijing, environment
• 03.09.08 Living in China: Average lifespan in Shanghai has passed 81
  
  "The average lifespan for Shanghai people reached 81.08 last year - the first time it has passed 81. Infant mortality was three in 1,000 and the pre and post-natal mortality rate for women was 6.68 in 100,000, according to statistics for 2007 just issued by the Shanghai Health Bureau. That's way above the national average: although Chinese people's average lifespan has almost doubled since 1949 -- shoting up by 36 years and people now live to 71 -- other cities in China, like Beijing, will only reach 80 by 2010..."  read on
  
  posted in health, population, living, beijing, china, shanghai, trends
• 02.15.08 107 dead, $15.4 billion lost due to snow in China
  
  "The blizzards that struck southern China in the past month have killed at least 107 people and left eight missing, as of February 12/2007, reported a senior Chinese official recently. The disaster has also caused direct economic losses of about 111 billion yuan ($15.4 billion), Civil Affairs Minister Li Xueju said: 21 provincial-level areas had been affected, with Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region the worst hit..."  read on
  
  posted in hunan, disaster, transportation, health, china, living, environment
• 01.07.08 Beijing’s Migrant Population Swelling
  
  "Nearly one out of three people in Beijing belongs to the mobile population, according to the capital's population and family planning commission. The municipality's mobile population reached 5.4 million in October, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the total, according to a recent report by the commission's deputy director, Li Yunli..."  read on
  
  posted in research, population, health, beijing, china, trends
• 01.07.08 Shanghai’s Population 18.45 million and still growing
  
  "Shanghai's permanent population is expected to hit 18.45 million by the end of the year, the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission said in a briefing to consulates in the city recently. The figure is 300,000 more than last year and 670,000 more than 2005..."  read on
  
  posted in health, population, living, shanghai, china, trends
• 01.02.08 2007 Retrospective: Top 10 Economy Events in China
  
  "The following is the 2007 Top 10 Economic Stories Selection from Economic Information Daily and Perfect China Co Ltd. The chief editors of 16 Beijing-based news organizations, including Zhu Ling, editor-in-chief of China Daily, as well as renowned local economists, put together this selection of the year's top stories. 1. Property The National People's Congress, China's top legislature, passed the Property Law of the People's Republic of China on March 16. The law granted equal protection to public and private properties for the first time..."  read on
  
  posted in energy, trade, living, industry, market, health, beijing, shanghai, economics, media, wealth, trends, china, environment
• 11.05.06 China: Technology, Innovation and the Environment
  
  "Since the beginning of its economical opening -- when the first 5-year plans were devised in 1979 -- China has being growing at an incredible speed, with its GNP numbers jumping from 44 billion dollars to 1.6 trillion dollars in just 20 years. Such growth has pushed the Chinese manufacturing industry into devouring huge amounts of natural resources in a alarming way: in 2004, China -- the 8th largest economy in GNP scale -- consumed 8% of all the oil, 31% of all the coal, 10% of all the electricity, 30% of all ore, 30% of all steel, 19% of all aluminum, 20% of all the copper and 40% of all cement produced in the world."  read on
  
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