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China to create emergency disaster relief teams
China aims to create emergency teams for flood control and drought relief in the coming five years to provide timely help when needed, a government official said Thursday. Chen Lei, minister of water resources, said at a conference that the country's ability to fight floods and droughts cannot meet the requirements of a rapidly developing society, as people living in rural areas have swarmed ...
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China pledges to improve infrastructures to boost grain production
China will step up efforts to construct water-conservation facilities and continue to increase funding for the projects to boost agricultural development, authorities said on Wednesday. A document publicized Wednesday by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, China's cabinet, said the country will quicken the pace of building water projects, treat rivers and lakes ...
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China to cut major pollutant emissions by over 30% by 2015
China has set a goal of reducing its major pollutant emissions by more than 30 to 40 percent by 2015 in its latest 12th five-year plan (2010-2015) for environment protection, according to a Wednesday report in the People's Daily newspaper. Compared with the 11th five-year plan, more indicators, greater pressure, stricter requirements and much higher investment needs are featured ...
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China to clear up, integrate food standards
China will overhaul its current food standards, integrating new specifications and weeding out others in a move largely aimed at avoiding overlap and contradiction, the Ministry of Heath announced. Before the end of 2015, the ministry will basically complete the work on the mandatory contents of China's current 1,900 national food standards, 1,200 local standards and 3,000 food industrial standards ...
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China city bans palm-reading assessment on campus
Education authorities in a north China city on Tuesday banned schools and kindergartens from carrying out palm-reading tests that could allegedly tell a child's intelligence and professional aptitude. "We have issued a circular to criticize the three kindergartens that offered palm-reading tests for 1,200 yuan (190 U.S. dollars) per person," said Ma Zhaoxing, education bureau chief in Taiyuan, capital ...
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China sends squad to help rescue workers in Sudan
China has sent a Foreign Ministry-led working group to Sudan to assist the rescue of 29 Chinese workers abducted by local rebel forces, who claim to be holding them for their own safety since clashes with government forces over the weekend. Members of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council are also part of the group that left Beijing on Monday night ...
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China issues 175 bln yuan in loans to support low-income housing in 2011
China's central bank said Monday that banks lent 175.1 billion yuan (27.77 billion U.S. dollars) to support the construction of low-income housing in 2011. The lending accounted for 50.1 percent of the year's new loans in the property sector, up 31.7 percentage points from the beginning of last year, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said in an annual financial report on its website.
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China invests heavily in water conservation
China invested 345.2 billion yuan (54.75 billion U.S. dollars) in water conservation projects last year, a senior official said Monday. The central government invested 114.1 billion yuan in water conservation projects, up 71.2 percent from a year earlier, while local governments provided a record high of 231.1 billion yuan, according to Minister of ...
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Political bias concerning China human rights "deeply rooted": Paper
Prejudice resulting from differences between political systems has become deeply rooted in interpretations of China's human rights situation, according to an editorial in the Sunday edition of the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The editorial, written in response to a Human Rights Watch report that described a "worsening human rights situation" ...
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China to eliminate endemic diseases in key areas in next five years
China will establish a long-term working system to prevent and cure endemic diseases in key areas, according to a plan jointly issued by the Ministry of Health, National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance. The plan said that China will continue to work on eliminating iodine deficiency in 90 percent of China's cities, districts and counties in Hainan, Tibet, Qinghai and ...
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