Transforming a hotel into a nursing home is a welcome move for the benefit of senior citizens, elderly care centers and society as a whole. More such decisions need to be taken for the healthy development of the elderly care sector, says an article in Guangzhou Daily. Excerpts:
When former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area in 1986, two years after it was founded, he wrote an inscription saying that the area was "a promising land".
Thirty years after it was established, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area is a large community in an attractive living environment with comprehensive community services.
I visited China for the first time in 1975. Since then, great changes have taken place in China's governance and diplomacy.
Attending a China-US Internet industry forum in Washington early this week, Lu Wei, the head of China's State Internet Information Office, told a Chinese tale that dates back to 239 BC.
THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE UK PARLIAMENT Foreign Affairs Committee's (FAC) ongoing review on the implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is dubious at best. This is especially true when considering its timing - at a time when Hong Kong society is torn apart by the illegal "Occupy Central" campaign being staged by political dissidents.
China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, and what happens in Hong Kong since then is China's domestic affairs. It is incredible that UK members of parliament are attempting to "investigate" the situation in Hong Kong, because that violates China's sovereignty as well as agreements reached between two countries. The UK members of parliament must know their requests are illegal.
Amid euphoria and fanfare, water from the $40-billion middle-route of the gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project is set to reach Beijing in a matter of days. For the parched Chinese capital, which is in the same league as Saudi Arabia in terms of per capita water availability, this event is worth more than celebration.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission has said it would continue to collect social maintenance fees, or fines paid by couples for having more children than the State allows, and there is no timetable for implementing the two-child policy. The commission's remark was in response to public concerns over the draft regulation on the issue which it has submitted to the State Council, the cabinet, for approval.
In the last couple of decades, as global trade has evolved, mid-sized corporations have also come to play a much more important role in supply chains. Whereas in the past, they would have focused on domestic markets, these days many such companies are fully active in overseas trade as suppliers and distributors.
World AIDS Day, observed on Dec 1, is a global public health campaign launched by the World Health Organization in 1987.
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