This Day, That Year

Item from Oct 19, 1984, in China Daily: A research center has been set up to revive ancient techniques to enable old people to be fit. ...

Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising last year to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a study released this month.

These extra years came in large measure thanks to a sharp drop in deaths from communicable diseases, especially over the past decade, said the Global Burden of Disease Report, published by the British medical journal The Lancet.