Contingency plans
China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-16 08:03
The latest figures from the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) should prompt us to be better prepared for emergencies and natural disasters.
According to the RCSC, more than 8 million people die of non-natural causes every year, and 80 percent of these deaths could be prevented.
But as the RCSC also pointed out, China had only 10 million people qualified to give first-aid as of 2010, accounting for less than 1 percent of the country's population. In other words, many of the people that died, died of ignorance.
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