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Saving water

A water saving educational program begun two months ago by the non-governmental environmental protection organization Roots & Shoots and daily healthcare products maker Kimberly-Clark showed its successes at an recent event in Beijing.

Students from more than 40 primary, middle schools and universities presented work at the show, including green-themed paintings, their own dramas on environmental protection and scientific reports.

Help to college grads

Chinese electronics retailer Suning recently signed an agreement with three universities in Beijing as an entrepreneurial base for university students to improve their experience and employment chances.

Suning will provide 600 internship positions and 30 entrepreneurial opportunities to students from Beijing Forestry University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Beijing Normal University in the next two years.

Medical report

Focus Reports, an international economic intelligence provider, will sponsor the publication of "The China Report", a special report on China's pharmaceutical industry.

The move is to help Chinese pharmaceutical companies, especially traditional Chinese medicine firms, enhance their profile in the international market, promote Chinese brands and help foreigners better understand the current situation in China's medicine industry.

Vision for eye care

Project Vision, a charity program providing free surgery to cataract patients, has begun in Hainan province.

Jointly organized by Project Vision Charitable Foundation, Hong Kong Yan'ai Foundation, and Hainan province, the program plans to offer free surgery to 40,000 cataract patients in Hainan in one year.

Three surgery sites on the island - in Danzhou, Haikou, and Sanya - offered screening to more than 14,000 cataract patients and carried out over 5,000 surgical procedures.

(China Daily 06/15/2009 page8)