Low maternal death target within reach

China is on target to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal 5, to reduce maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015, according to the World Health Organization's director-general Margaret Chan.

The country has already met MDG 4, cutting child mortality by two-thirds from 1990 ahead of schedule.

MDGs are eight international targets that were established following the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. All 189 states that were UN members then, as well as 23 international organizations, committed themselves to help achieve the targets by the end of 2015.