China and the EU Cooperate in a Community-based AIDS Prevention Project

A European Union-supported project was officially launched recently in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province to help the Chinese government effectively control the spread of STDs and AIDS. The purpose of this project is to provide basic medical services through the community health service network to high-risk groups so that they can receive affordable and timely treatment at the grassroots level. This practice has proven to be very successful in Tanzania and some other countries and has helped t…     

Guangzhou: Fifth Largest City in China

By the end of 2001, Guangzhou had a permanent population of 10.15 million, ranking the fifth largest city in China, only next to Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, according to a recently published White Paper on Socioeconomic Development in Guangzhou. The white paper pointed out that last year the number of newborns reached 63,767, with a birth rate of 9.1 per thousand and a natural increase rate of 3.94 per thousand. By the end of this year, the total permanent population of the …     

One-Tenth of Worlds Population Are Aging

Statistics recently released by the United Nations show that aged population in the world has totaled 629 million, which means there is one person out of every ten who is aged 60 or over. By 2050, the number of people aged 60 and over will reach two billion, accounting for 21% of the total and outnumbering those aged 15 and below. The number of centennials will increase from about 210,000 in 2002 to 3.2 million in 2050. Currently, Italy has the highest proportion of aged population (25%). S…     

Main Findings from Survey on Knowledge of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Puberty of High School Students in Rural China

The purpose of the PO2 project is to improve the special health education on reproductive health and HIV/ AIDS prevention knowledge in classroom education in the rural junior high schools of China. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education(MOE)of China,the Center for Population and Development Studies of Renmin University of China carried out a baseline KAP survey on the subject     

Gender Perspective Enters University Education in Shanghai

The Shanghai Municipal Education Committee has recently decided to include gender education into the university curriculum, according to sources familiar with this matter. The first four courses introduced are study of gender; female psychology and career development; emotion, love and marriage; and marriage, family and economy. Starting February 2002, these courses will be first introduced in seven universities in the form of lectures and officially included in the credit system of most uni…     

A Survey of Sick and DisabledChildren in Liaoning

Reducing the morbidity of children is vital toimprovement of the quality of the wholepopulation. In order to effectively help reducethe birth of sick and disabled children, a retrospectivesurvey was conducted in northeast China's LiaoningProvince between 1990-1992 to study the main causesleading to disabilities and explore ways to preventthem.The survey covered both urban and rural areas of thewhole province, involving a total of 8,508 first-birthchildren with sickness or disability, 6,092 se…     

Combining RH/FP Services with HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control:The Model in Henan Province

In an effort to take advantage of the extensive network of the provincial family planning authorities,mobilize public participation and improve interagency coordination in fighting HIV/AIDS,the provincial government of Henan,in central China,lays out five…     

Education of Migrant Children Worrisome

The plight of migrant workers in China, estimated to number in the hundreds of millions, has drawn grave concerns from top leaders and common people alike. Part of their plight is the schooling of their children that they cannot go to school on equal terms as local children. Nearly half of school-age migrant children in China cannot go to school as scheduled, and 9.3% of them dropped out of school or never attended school, according to a latest survey of migrant populations in nine Chinese …     

Invisible Reality——A large scenery in the mind of contemporary humanity

Zhuang Zhong is a painter who shows his artistic character in his early stage among oil painters born in 1970’s. Dated back to 1 994 before he graduated from university,his The First Snow since the Winter Solstice was awarded as an Outstanding Work in the Eight National Fine Art Exhibition. It not only made him an outstanding person among painters of the nearly same age,but also made him stand out in the field of oil painting in Jiangsu. The reason The First Snowfall since the Winter Solstice attracts people’s notice lies in that the picture plane turn ordinary mountains and champaign     

Scaling up the Quality of Care Approach

Like the pilot project, the scaling up of the quality of care approach is also new in China and requires continued research and exploration. In July 2003, the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) drew on the experience of scaling up the quality of care project and decided to launch a campaign to select and commend model counties (cities/districts) in implementing the project in order to set an example for different regions with different economies and ensure the quali…     

Men Involvement and Reproductive Health

1. Definition Male participation in reproductive health refers to promotion of male contraceptive methods as well as sharing responsibility with women in childbearing, sex health and child-rearing. In 1994, the Program of Action of ICPD explicitly pointed out that efforts should be made to promote male participation in responsible fertility, sex and reproductive behaviors and shared responsibility with women. In 1999, the ICPD plus 5 further urged that efforts be made to make men underst…     

How Wide Is the Income Gap in China?

Thanks to the introduction of the reform and opening up policy, China has achieved rapid economic development and recorded a significant rise in the income level of its urban and rural residents as a whole. However, the level of income varies from industry to industry, from rural to urban areas, and from region to region, and the gap is widening. Estimates show that the Gini coefficient (an economic indicator measuring disparities in personal income) in China was 0.424 in 1996, 0.456 in 1998,…     

Housing Distribution Monetarized in 32 Cities

China'S housing reform is progressing on a national scale. So far, 32 out of the 35 large and medium-sized cities in the country have mapped out plans to monetarize housing allocation, according to the Ministry of Construction. Traditionally, government employees and employees at state-owned enterprises get their housing from their employer at a nominal cost. Under the new system, the state will no longer 揳llocate?housing to employees free but will pay housing allowance to them, based …     

Family Planning Law and China''''s Birth Control Situation

[China's Population and Family Planning Law took effect on September 1, 2002. To help people gain a better understanding of the law, China.org.cn, a government-run website to promote international communication, recently interviewed Zhao Bingli, vice minister of the State Family Planning Commission. Zhao explained in detail the background to the promulgation of the law and China's current situation of population and family planning. China Population Today reprints the interview Editor.]…     

Expert Proposes Five Strategies to Check Spread of Disease

China needs to take a systematic approach and make out a series of effective measures to effectively prevent AIDS from spreading on a massive scale, according to Zeng Yi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the China Research Institute of Preventive Science. Experts estimate that the actual number of HIV/AIDS carriers in China had exceeded 600,000 by the end of 2000. Zeng, a celebrated virologist in China, proposed the following strategies …     

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.     

Reform of the Evaluation Indicator System and Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services

Evaluation indicators, used for assessing work in a specific time period, play a guiding role in every area and are vital for making work plans. GDP, an important economic indicator, is often used to measure the strength of a country. It is also an indicator used in China to evaluate the performance of local governments. This practice has proven to be effective in stimulating economic growth within a certain time period. However, the consequences of focusing only on economic indicators are b…     

Social Security and Protection For the Disadvantaged

More than twenty years of reform and opening-up has brought remarkable changes to China in both socioeconomic development and the income and living standards of its people. However, with the introduction of the contract responsibility system in rural areas and the reform of the employment and income distribution systems in urban areas, the concepts of an 搃ron bowl?and 揺ating from the same big pot?under the old system have been abandoned. Chinese society has left behind an era of universal p…     

Implement ICPD Programme of Action and Promote the Realization of Millennium Development Goals——Summary of International Symposium on Population and Development

To facilitate the building of a new pattern of open economy in the landlocked Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region,and further implement the Western Development Strategy,the first China-Arab National Economic and Trade Forum 2010(CANETF) was held on September 26 to 30,2010 in Yinchuan,capital city ofNingxia Hui Autonomous Region in China.     

State Council Issued Opinions on Further Promoting Reform of Household Registration System

正In order to fulfill the requirement of further promoting the reform of household registration system,accelerate orderly citizenization of permanent residents and give impetus to full coverage of urban basic public services for permanent residents,the State Council has issued the following opinions recently.Overall Requirements Guiding Ideology To meet the needs for advancing new urbanization,further promote the reform of household registration system and carry out the policies