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June 2 The Ministry of Civil Affairs urged local civil affairs departments at all levels to carry out the requirement of General Office of the State Council strictly to ensure a steady supply of pork and other subsidiary foodstuff, keep an orderly market, and maintain the living of urban poor families with the Minimum Living Guarantee Allowance.
June 4 China’s National Program Dealing with Climate Changes was issued officially in Beijing. It formulated policies and measures to address climate changes for the period up to 2010. This was the first policy paper of China to address climate changes, and also the first national program of developing countries.
June 4 Plan Guideline of Educational Development in the 11th Five-year Plan (5YP) was released officially today in the press conference of the Ministry of Education, which said : “China’s educational undertakings will develop continuously and the educational system will be further improved in the 11th Five-year Plan.”
June 5 Mr. Wen Jiabao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC and Premier of the State Council, inspected the earthquake-stricken Pu’er City in Yunnan Province and expressed concern for the quake-hit residents on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.
June 6 To prevent the high meal fee of students caused by price rising of food materials like pork and eggs, Shanghai Commission of Education urged universities in Shanghai to pay the subsidy of subsidiary foodstuff for students on time and in full and make allowances to the refectories of universities.
June 7 According to Statistical Communique of the 2006 National Development of Educational Undertakings, national educational undertakings had made new progresses, scales of education at all levels and enrollment opportunities had increased continuously, deployment of educational resources had come to a higher level, and development of non-compulsory non-governmental education had been especially fast.
June 7 "The Bible Ministry Exhibition of the Protestant Church in China :A Lamp to My Feet , Light to My Path" was held in Cologne, Germany. It exhibited the Bible history in China, especially the publishing and circulation of Bible after Chinese reforms and opening, as well as the Bible ministry of minorities and church lives.
June 9 Tibet Original Ecology Folk Culture and Arts Exhibition was held in Dzonggyab Lukhang Park. A gathering of original ecology folk culutre in such a large scale is the first in Tibet.
June 11 The project of establishing Minnan Cultural Ecology Protrction Trial Area, the main ancestral home of compatriots from Taiwan and the cradle and reserve of Minnan culture and the first national cultural ecology protection area, is formally approved. The area will include Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Xiamen in Fujian Province.
June 11 The Ministry of Health introduced the progresses of urban community health services and new rural cooperative medical system on a routine press conference this morning. The spokesman Mao Qunan said that community health services had made positive progresses and showed favorable trend under the efforts of relevant authorities of the State Council and local governments at all levels.
June 12 The Ministry of Health released that there were 409 public health emergencies, 13039 patients and 25 deaths reported in 30 provinces (excluding Hongkong, Taiwan and Macao) across the country, according to the public health emergency management information system. There was no public health emergency reported in Tibet.
June 13 The first seminar on “Safeguarding the Legal Rights and Interests of Informers, Building a Harmonious Society” was held in Beijing. It was sponsored by the Impeaching Center of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China and co-sponsored by the Impeaching and Appealing Center of Beijing People’s Procuratorate and People’s Procuratorate of Haidian District, Beijing.
June 14 Red Cross Society of China officially launched the “Series of Activities in Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Promulgation of the Blood Donation Law” and declared the establishment of “Red Cross Help Fund” as the special fund for the study and living of children orphaned by AIDS.
June 16 The Ministry of Civil Affairs, jointly with the Ministry of Finance, disbursed 101 million central natural calamity living fund for flood-hit residents in seven provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou.
June 16- June 19 The delegation of China Society for Human Rights Studies visited NewYork, and held talks with relevant NGOs, academic institutions and media like the American Foreign Relations Committee, Asia Association, Columbia University Human Rights research Center, the Wall Street Journal, etc.
June 17 Sun Baoshu, Vice Minister of Labor and Social Security, reported the primary situation of investigation and management of illegal use of laborers by Shanxi “black brick kilns”.
June 20 The Ministry of Finance announced that central finance had allocated the first sum of 9.396 billion yuan new rural cooperative medical care subsidy of the year 2007 and 1.033 billion yuan of 2007 urban community public health subsidy respectively to local authorities.
June 20 Premier Wen Jiabao presided the routine meeting of the State Council to listen to the report of primary situation of investigation and management of illegal use of laborers by Shanxi “black brick kilns” and study relevant work of returning agricultural land to forest land.
June 21 Beijing Municipal Labor & Social Security Bureau revealed the detailed implementation rules of medical insurance system for “people aged 60 or above, students and other non-student children aged 16 or below.”
June 26 Working conference concerning investigations on the real situation of occupational diseases was held today in Beijing. The cities of Beijing, Shenyang and Wuhan and provinces of Guizhou, Shanxi, Sichuan and Jiangsu will be chosen as main areas to carry out sample surveys for the investigations.
June 27 The Ministry of Civil Affairs, jointly with the Ministry of Finance, had disbursed 66 million central natural calamity living allowance for flood-hit residents in Hubei, Guangxi, Chongqing and Sichuan.
June 27 The Ministry of Labor and Social Security held a videophone conference on the expansion of the special campaign of crackdown on illegal using of laborers and other violations of law and commissions of crime. Minister Tian Chengpin emphasized that departments of labor and social security at all levels should understand fully the significance of this campaign and implement properly the right measures.
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