Every three minutes, a person suffering from depression commits suicide in China and a further 11 people attempt to take their own lives.
Twirling a pencil in the fingers of her right hand, Wu Liumei, 13, stopped for a second as she contemplated the equations the math teacher had written on the blackboard, and then continued to take notes.
In 2012, Yunnan province invested 67 billion yuan ($11 billion) to improve its education system. The figure was a 39 percent increase from 2011 and the highest amount invested in the past decade, according to the provincial department of education. The investment accounted for about 6.5 percent of Yunnan's GDP in 2012, higher than the 4 percent required by the Ministry of Education.
While the upgrading project has brought great improvements to border schools, principals said teacher numbers are insufficient and the schools require additional funds to meet the demands caused by the rising number of students from Myanmar.
Despite its benefits as a painkiller, drug finds few backers among doctors, reports Zhao Xu in Beijing.
Standing behind the continent's infrastructure boom, Beijing seeks closer ties to support the Africa's renaissance, Li Lianxing reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
'Smog" and "haze" have become buzzwords this winter after severe air pollution choked China for several weeks. Equally severe are the country's polluted surface water, ground water and farmland soil. In the face of the worsening levels of pollution, experts have blamed the problem on the disorderly discharge of all kinds of fumes and waterborne waste. They come from factory processes and emissions as well as auto exhausts, during China's 20-plus years of rapid industrial development.
Wang Shoubing, an environmental impact assessment engineer at Fudan University, told China Daily how the qualification is gained.
Despite a number of reports suggesting that legitimate Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been exporting counterfeit anti-malaria medicines to Africa, the country continues to provide aid in the fight against the mosquito-borne disease.
Ordos, on the vast plateau of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has probably been China's most rapidly developing prefecture-level city during the past decade, as a result of the exploitation of its rich mineral resources.
Official statistics show that China's urbanization rate, indicated by the ratio of urban residents to the total population, had risen to 52.57 percent by the end of 2012 from 51 percent in 2011. However, that is still much lower than the average of 80 percent in fully developed economies.
The word "relocation" has gained a negative connotation during recent years in the wake of reports detailing disputes and even bloody violence in the course of land reallocation and city rebuilding.
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