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The main cause is the widespread use of low-quality coal in rural regions and in areas with a lack of environmental supervision."

Xie Shaodong, an environmental professor at Peking University, joining the debate on the reasons Chinese cities are frequently experiencing severe pollution.

"It's of great significance for both the government and Chinese individuals, and aims to help detect the most effective treatments for individual patients and reduce the overall medical costs for the country."

Cao Xuetao, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who says China has been working closely on its national precision medicine initiative featuring a gene bank covering at least several million Chinese.

"Malaria is a pandemic that can easily get out of control, especially in low-income regions such as Africa. All parties should, under the framework of the (World Health Organization), try their best to delay the process of artemisinin resistance."

Tu Youyou, the Nobel laureate, calling on Dec 6 for joint efforts worldwide to combat malaria and develop more potential uses for traditional Chinese medicine.

(China Daily European Weekly 12/11/2015 page3)