China has taken major strides in terms of social security and protection. Policies have been built on a combination of social insurance, social assistance and welfare services. And of major importance is the nine-year free and compulsory education for all. Increasingly larger percentages of the population, including the most vulnerable groups, such as poor rural residents, the unemployed and - to a gradually larger extent - migrant workers, have been included in social policies. Minimum living standards schemes, as well as medical insurance and pension schemes have been introduced, although with a fragmented structure and variations in organization, scope of implementation, entitlements and benefit generosity based on people's hukou (household registration) status and other criteria. Therefore, benefits are for many very modest.
Since many outbound Chinese tourists are more interested in shopping than traveling, it is fair to call them shopaholics. They spend money on virtually everything, from high-end electronic appliances and luxury goods to daily necessities, such as skin cream and anti-cold medicine.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his colleagues spare no effort, miss no opportunity, to clarify and defend the country's stance regarding the South China Sea.
In the countdown to when newly elected Taiwan leader Tsai Ying-wen is due to take office in May, separatists on the island seem to be accelerating their activities aimed at "de-sinification".
THE DEPLOYMENT OF a US missile defense system in the Republic of Korea seems to have been delayed after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the United States last week.
MA CAIYUN, a Beijing judge, was killed along with her husband when two people shot them on Friday. The killers later committed suicide.
LAST YEAR, Wang Nana discovered that although she had been admitted by Zhoukou Vocation and Technology College in Henan province, Central China, in 2003, an imposter had taken her place.
The number of mainland tourists visiting Taiwan has declined sharply before and after the island's leadership election in January, which Democratic Progressive Party leader Tsai Ing-wen has won.
The adept presentation of publicity and news, of nuance and nationalism put forward by the best media practitioners in the West suggests that the Chinese media, too, can tell it like it is even while serving as the official voice of the State.
Appointing Ning Jizhe, a well-known government think-tank economist, to be the new head of National Bureau of Statistics is a welcome move.
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