China has proposed to increase people's life expectancy by one year by 2020 - from 76.34 in 2015, though women, on average, live longer than men.
Over the past 16 years cross-Straits ties have experienced both bad and good times.
A US strike group comprising the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, destroyers and cruisers recently arrived in the South China Sea to begin a seven-month-long demonstration of military force.
ON WEDNESDAY, the 15-nation UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to impose harsh sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in response to its recent nuclear test and satellite launch.
LI DAOKUI, a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an economics professor at Tsinghua University, has cautioned that policies aimed at clearing the glut of unsold housing, such as zero down payments, may result in a real estate bubble.
PHOTOS OF A 16-YEAR-OLD boy and girl being "married" in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, triggered heated discussion on Chinese social media last month, as the legal age for marriage in China is 22 for males and 20 for females.
The Government Work Report, delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday to the top legislature, confirmed that economic growth remains the government's key objective.
The number of 30-plus bachelors, or "leftover men", in China's rural areas is astonishing.
I have been traveling to Asia and writing about it in various newspapers and journals for two decades, and I have visited China many times to know it closely.
With his second three-year term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party expiring in Sept 2018, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set himself the goal of revising the country's Constitution in the next two and a half years.
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