This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2017-06-09 07:28
Item from June 9, 1981, in China Daily: A plentiful supply of eggs at a Beijing store helps improve residents' nutrition, and makes shopping convenient.
Better nutrition has raised the average lifespan of Chinese people from 36 years in 1949 to 68 last year, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
China is aiming to increase its citizens' average life expectancy to 79 years by 2030, according to the Healthy China 2030 blueprint released by the State Council, China's Cabinet, last year.
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