China Daily 30 Anniversary Edition

China Daily 30 Anniversary Edition

Overseas investors get more aggressive

[2011-06-01 10:09]

The period between 2001 and 2010, amid China's continuously expanding economy with the GDP compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) reaching 15.4 percent, has attracted rising foreign direct investment (FDI). Over the past 10 years, China's FDI CAGR averaged 9.5 percent.

Keeping the dream alive in my 'little white house'

[2011-06-01 10:09]

For many young college graduates before the 1990s, tongzilou was an important word in their vocabulary. It referred to the low-rise apartment buildings with long central corridors, communal toilets and cooking facilities at one end.

Timeline

[2011-06-01 10:09]

1985: Businesses and government departments in Beijing are given permission to sell subsidized flats to their workers.

Finding the right cure

[2011-06-01 10:09]

During the last 30 years, the health service system in China has made several significant strides and improved the overall health condition of urban and rural Chinese citizens. Though much of the focus in those days was on public health and preventive treatment, it also had some shortcomings. An inherent flaw of the post-1980s period was that healthcare became more of a fee-for-service available mainly to those who could afford it. There was also a constant churn of medical personnel from the rural to the urban areas, contrary to what was envisaged by policymakers.

Partners in healthcare

[2011-06-01 10:09]

China already has a robust healthcare system, so the World Health Organization (WHO) is targeting its work to build technical capacity and share international best practices in specific areas where there may be gaps.

Food for thought

[2011-06-01 10:09]

An old Chinese saying dating back to over 2,000 years says food is all-important to the people. But 20 centuries later, Chinese citizens are still grappling with several food safety concerns.

Policy still necessary but can be tweaked

[2011-06-01 10:11]

When the "cultural revolution" broke out in 1966, major national newspapers called on the 600 million Chinese to join the "great movement of smashing the feudal, the bourgeois and the revisionist ideas".

Loneliness of the single child

[2011-06-01 10:11]

Shao Pei and his wife Zhou Min, both only children, are considering moving to another neighborhood in Beijing with a higher population of children. That's because their only daughter, nicknamed Xiaoxiao, is turning 2 years old soon and will need to make friends. The couple, in their early 30s, live in a high-end apartment building in the capital's expensive Central Business District, densely populated with young elite white-collar workers but few children.

Jade-colored pots

[2011-02-27 07:59]

The sky was gray and overcast. A cold front from Mongolia had descended, blanketing the Korean Peninsula in a misty veil. As we crossed the Hangang River that divides Seoul in two, the metal-colored waterway faded in and out of the thin fog. About an hour later, the expressways are behind us, and as we entered the country roads, we started seeing fields of rice, their heads heavy with fat golden grains. Persimmon trees marked the remaining kilometers, their fruits nodding on bare branches like little orange lanterns.