Travel Notes on Water--splashinq Festival in Ruili

The Water-splashing Festival may be the most well-known festival of the ethnic minoritiesby people in China. It became popular because Zhou Enlai the first premier of New China participated in the festival, and is also remembered by generations of people because the story has been written in primary school textbooks. Like many other Chinese, the festival is quite a mystery and attraction to me. I always has the hope to experience it on my own.     

Spring Festival in China,2008:Struggle against Ice and Snow

Just before the spring festival of 2008,the eastern,middle,southern and southwest parts of China were hit by violent icy and snowy weather,which was the most serious winter storm disaster in recorded history·The daily lives of the people in the disaster areas were severely     

Income Disparity Widens

China has evolved from a country of egalitarianism to one of widening income gaps, according to Ding Hongmei, a researcher with Tsinghua University, one of the top institutes of higher learning in the nation. Prior to 1979, China was a command economy in which everybody was 揺ating from the same rice bowl? an egalitarian way of distribution of income. Reformers led by the late Deng Xiaoping believed that system led to great inefficiencies of the economy because it failed to motivate people …     

Reproductive Health Becomes a Promising Industry

In mid-July, China held its first family planning and reproductive health new technology and new product exposition in Beijing, on the occasion of the first World Population Day in the new millennium. Tens of thousands of visitors both industry people and ordinary citizens flocked to the exhibition hall, accompanied by a major media blitz proclaiming the coming of age of a new industry, reproductive health. China Transformed Just a few years ago, few people in China realized that sexual…     

HIV Carriers to Exceed 10 Million in 10 Years

Latest statistics released by the Ministry of Health shows that by the end of September 2001, there were 20,711 cases of HIV carriers reported in China. Of those, 741 were AIDS patients and 397 had already died. The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985 and so far it has been reported in all the provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions). AIDS is spreading fast in China, especially among people on dope, due to a weak awareness of the deadly disease among …     

China Publishes Suicide Data

Each year 287,000 people committed suicide in China, according to a study released in late November 2002. This is the first time China published such data. The study was conducted by the Huilongguan Hospital of Beijing, in conjunction with the China Disease Prevention & Control Center. This longitudinal study surveyed 23 samples across the nation, trying to identify the number of people who committed suicide and the causes for suicides. The study found that during 1995-1999, suicide was…     

Population Prizes Awarded

The fourth China Population Award, jointly sponsored by the Central Propaganda Department, the SFPC, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Personnel and the China Family Planning Association, was recently unveiled in Beijing. The top award in the population field in China, the China Population Award is given to people including officials, field workers, technical professionals and foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to China抯 population and fami…     

Chinese Academy of Sciences Released “China Sustainable Development Strategy Report 2012”

"China Sustainable Development Strategy Report 2012" by Chinese Academy of Sciences indicated that the developing population pressure in China is still large. There are still 26.88 million poor people according to the 2010     

The person with a little ugly in Guo Zuchang's painting

正The people in the painting of Guo Zuchang with a little ugly ordinarily, it seems have a bit difficulty to accept for many person who are used to see the people who is handsome or beauty, in their eyes, the artist of fine arts draw the people ugly in the paintings is unreasonable. There is no wonder they can't understand it, "rather ugly don't charm" is the inertia prevailing in the fine arts in China, some people are drew by the painter as a apparition come out of hell. Currently ugly is fashionable, the man in de street just has a little aesthetic knowledge and     

Family Planning Deposit Returned in Jimo,Shandong

China Population Today Jimo is a county-level city located in east China抯 Shandong Province with a population of 1.07 million. It抯 one of the pilots in China for implementing the QoC in family planning. In the past two years, local government made a move that was so welcomed by local people. That was: returned family planning deposit in full. Collection of family planning deposit in Jimo could be dated back to 1993, when administrative directives were needed in urging couples of …     

HIV/AIDS in China

Status QuoAn epidemiological survey jointly conducted by China and the WHO and UNAIDS indicates that China now has 840,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, 80,000 of whom are AIDS patients. Although this figure translates into a mere 0.6‰ of the country's total population, the total number comes the second place in Asia and the 14th in the world. The prevalence rate among adults is less than 0.1%, but the epidemic has been found in all the 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) of the country and the number of newly-infected people is increasing fast. Major methods of HIV transmission include drug-taking, blood donation (a major means of living for farmers in some impoverished regions) and sex.     

China Has Already Included 97.12 Million Senior Residents Aged over 65 into Health Management

On October 11,2012,Ministry of Public Health held a routine press conference.Kong Lingzhi,Deputy Director General of Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention of Ministry of Public Health introduced relevant work in elderly healthcare. Kong said the number of the aging population aged over 60 in China had reached 178 million by the end of 2010, accounting for 13.26%of the total population;and those aged over 65 had reached 119 million,accounting for 8.9%of the total population.China is the only nation in the world with more than 100 million old people. Characteristics of population aging in China are large population size,fast population growth and advanced age.Incidence and     

Elderly-Oriented Service Industry: Strategy for Tackling Population Aging

Since the 1980s, China has entered the population aging process along with progress made in the implementation of the family planning policy. By 2000, the aged population (60 and over) made up 10.2 percent of the total population, signaling that China had marched into an aging society. In the new millennium, the aging process in the country will continue. It is predicted that by 2030 the number of elderly people over 60 will rise to 310 million (20% of the total population) from the current …     

Challenges to China''''s Old-Age Support System

Many agree that China will become an agedsociety at the turn of the century. By the endof 1998, China had a population of 1.248billion, and a net 11 million is added annually,according to the State Statistical Bureau. At this rate,Xiao Zhenyu, a researcher from the China Old-AgeResearch Center, estimated that China's totalpopulation already hit1 .259 billion by theend of 1999 and 1.27in 2000. Specifically,the aged population(people aged 60 andover) numbered 127million in 1999 and approxim…     

Advanced-Age People the Fastest Growing Group

During the decade from 1990 to 2000, the number of Chinese people aged 80 and over increased from 7.68 million to 11.99 million, with an annual increase of 4.56%, much higher than the rates for all elderlypeople or for the total population. It is so far thefastest-growing group in China. Estimates show that by 2050, China will have more than 100 million people aged 80 and over, accountingfor 25% of the elderly, compared to todays 9%. By that time, there will be one advanced-age person for e…     

The Urban Poor: A New Problem in China

China has made great progress in reducing its impoverished population in rural areas from 250 million in 1978 to 30 million today, although regional disparities are widening. Since the mid-1980s, however, China has faced a new problem: the urban poor. Government statistics indicate that the urban poor population consists of the following four groups of people: people on the dole who have no source of income, no working ability or no legal supporter; people who receive unemployment reli…     

China Population and Development——National Population and Family Planning Commission of China September 2004

An International Forum on Population and Development was held during, September 7-9 in Wuhan, capital city of central China‘s Hubei Province, to mark the lOth anniversary of both the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Partners in Population and Development (PPD). Jointly organized by PPD, the National Population and Family Planning, Commission of China and the Population, Resources and Environment Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People‘s Political Consultative Conference, the forum was attended by about 400 participants front member countries of the Partners, international organizations, NGOs and donor institutions. Following is a full text of the cottntry report submitted by China to the conference.     

The Process of Familization of Migration in China

China is a transitional and developing country with the largest population and number of farmers in the world, and shows a striking feature of urban-rural dual structure. The major content in China＇s rising modernization is the process of urbanization transformation, urbanization of small and middle-sized city in China should become the basic path selection. Which involves three important issues： concept, people, and institution. Only based on the modernization of concept, people and institution, there will automatically generate the modernization of industry, agriculture, technology and national defense, and thus consistently developing prosperous of both the country and the citizens.     

Mudanjiang,Heilongjiang:Reform and Innovation

A Revolutionary Change Reform by nature is a complicated undertaking;the most important thing is to develop a modern spirit and vision first.After more than 30 years of arduous efforts,China achieved a stable,low fertility rate in the late-1990s,an impressive feat.However,the country s population and family planning sector still retained many remnants of the planned-economy era, which is increasingly incompatible with socioeconomic reform.It has become imperative that the family planning sector catch up with the pace of overall reform in China. Reform against such a backdrop has therefore assumed a special importance and urgency.It is not a piecemeal fix of the original system, but rather a revolutionary change. The basic starting point is putting people first and letting people be the greatest beneficiary of reform.     

Calculation on energy-related CO2 emissions in China（2010～2050）

On the basis of MARKAL-MACRO model of"Energy-Economy-Environment"system and Keyfitz model of demography,energy demand in China in the future was calculated.Three scenarios were put forward taking into account of energy efficiency, energy structure and restriction of climate change.CO2 Emissions in China will reach peak value 11.85 Gt in 2042 in reference scenario;10.75 Gt in 2036 in optimized scenario;and 9.47 Gt in 2031 in restriction scenario of climate change. Compare with reference scenario, carbon emissions in restriction scenario of climate change will decline by 2.38 Gt,and peak time will be llyears earlier.With the development of urbanization and industrialization,carbon emissions from electric power, cement,steel will rise gradually then go down;but emissions from traffic will go up continuously because of the increase of vehicle fleet.