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Living in China: 100 Million People with Mental Illness
Huang Yueqin, the director of the China's National Center for Mental Health, has said that 100 million people, or 7% of the population, suffer from some degree of mental illness, yet only 5% of those afflicted are aware they have a problem [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: looks to its own consumers
China is rebalancing its economy to focus more on domestic consumption than exports in order to achieve its growth target, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said. Addressing an Asian regional forum in southern China, he announced a $10bn (over 1.5 billion US dollars) fund for infrastructure projects in south-east Asia [...]
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Intellectual Property: “China to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights”, says Wen Jiabao
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said recently that the Chinese government would increase efforts to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). Wen was speaking in a meeting with Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) [...]
Living in China: Essential differences between Chinese, Western political systems
Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo elaborated on the essential differences between the system of China's people's congresses and Western capitalist countries' system of political power at the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) recently. The essential differences are listed as following [...]
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Living in China: “Thank you for Smoking”!
One out of every three cigarettes is lit in China, and respiratory disease is on the rise. Some are asking what the future of smoking will look like in China. US-China Today clears the haze [...]
Video: Anti-spitting campaign from the 1950s in China
Think the Chinese government only became interested in stopping spitting after SARS? Think again! They’ve been promoting an anti-spitting stance since before the Cultural Revolution. Unfortunately, if our frequent walks around the city are any indication, 50 years of no spitting propaganda has had very little effect on the behavior.
Gaming in China: Chinese government says no to “Wrath of the Lich King”
JLM Pacific Epoch reports the Chinese government “has rejected two applications by the second expansion for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King since China’s Spring Festival (January 25 – February 1).”
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-15
[China, Internet] Quotable quotes: online questions for Chinese Premier Wen (Wen Jiabao chat with Internet users.) http://tinyurl.com/asmapb # China admits corruption still a serious problem in some areas (Corruption still a problem in “some” localities) http://tinyurl.com/adgobw # [China, Shanghai] “Expats like living China… but not the spitting!” http://tinyurl.com/ceajbx # [China, Women] Reading “The Plight of China’s Xiaojies” (China [...]
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China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: More cash, less gas emissions?