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Teamwork improves medical care in Tibet

Dozens of top-rated hospitals across China have offered pairing-up assistance to county-level hospitals in the Tibet autonomous region over the past few years, helping the plateau region improve medical services. Following a plan unveiled by the central government in June 2019, 40 traditional Chinese medicine hospitals from all over the country paired up with 36 county-level hospitals of traditional Tibetan medicine, the regional health commission said in a statement issued on Wednesday. The TCM hospitals have sent 132 management and medical staff members to Tibet, treated more than 100,000 patients and offered over 6 million yuan ($938,000) in assistance funds, the commission said.

Controls on tutoring adverts stepped up

Chinese authorities have issued a notice on regulating the advertising of off-campus tutoring, the State Administration of Market Regulation, one of the nine agencies that jointly issued the notice, said on Tuesday. Local governments should immediately launch special campaigns to eliminate all off-campus tutoring advertisements and follow the requirements of related policy documents, the notice said. Mainstream media outlets and their affiliated new media, as well as internet platform companies and outdoor advertising operators, should immediately conduct self-checks and rectify their behavior on the issue, it added.

Xinhua