Project Happiness Helps Mothers Living in Poverty

Project Happiness, since its launch in 1995, has been successfully implemented across China. So far, project sites have been established in 466 counties of 28 of the country抯 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions), with a combined investment of RMB160 million including donations, poverty-alleviation funds from the central government and matching funds from local governments. A total of 120,000 poor mothers have been helped out of poverty and more than 500,000 people have benef…     

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…     

China Launches Project to Cope with Aging

China is going to start a new project, named Starlight Project, to meet the increasing challenge ofpopulation aging, the Ministry of Civil Affairsannounced in June 2001. According to the project, civil affairs departments at both central and provincial levels will, during thenext three years, use 80% of the funds raised fromwelfare lottery to establish a community-based service net for the elderly population both in urbanand rural areas. Statistics from authoritative source indicate thatc…     

Beijing to Spend More on Pollution Control

The Chinese national capital will spend RMB92.7 billion (about US$11.17 billion) in preventing and treating environmental pollution between 2003 and 2007, the Beijing Morning News reported. The environment in Beijing, as well as its air quality, have been steadily improving over the past five years. Last year, residents enjoyed 203 fair days of good air quality, accounting for 55.6 percent of the whole year, said the newspaper. In the meantime, Beijing抯 urban infrastructure has been e…     

Family Planning Benefits Reproductive Health——Case Study of Shanghai

Reproductive health is a new concept put forward by the international community in recent years. In April 1994, WHO defined reproductive health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes. The concept gained international recognition at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September 1994. Based on the global repro…     

The Large Population in China: A Major Obstacle to Modernization?

"A large population" has long been the most prominent national condition of China. Whilepopulation research has been of 20 years in China, the relationship between population andmodernization attracts not much attention, and in the practical life, population issues are typically regarded as issues of population quantity which in turn are oversimplified as fertility issues. Hence, a misunderstanding is prevailing that "a large population" is the whole thing ofChina's population problems. This issue of "Population and Development Forum" attempts to open up views objectively toexamine the actual situation of "a large population in China", and to bring together the wisdom of different disciplines on population problems influencing the process of modermization.     

View Grandeur by Details and Fill Feelings in Scenery

正Chen Chenyi is one of my very valued painters.For many years,he has been assiduous in painting.Influenced by his family since childhood,he possesses profound artistic cultivation and solid basic painting skills.His pursuit in Chinese painting is refl ected in his constant exploration in the artistic conception of the painting’s general     

China／UNFPA Project Helps to Change

The survey was conducted in three townships in Kuerle during June 15-17. In-depth interviews were conducted on separate occasions withlocal women and with family planning cadres andworkers at the city and township levels. The surveyshowed that the local family planning commissionhas complied with the requirements of the UNFPA FP/RH project by promoting informed choice andabandoning the quota system. There is no evidenceshowing that government forced local people topractice family planning.…     

Beijing Plans to Build Megalopolis Research Institute to Address Problems of Traffic Jams and Difficult Schooling

In recent years,discussion on urban capacity has gradually been extended to the government and the masses when problems like traffic jams,housing prices,difficulty in getting schooling and medical treatment begin to appear in megalopolis like Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou.On September 2,2012,Beijing Municipal Government and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences signed an agreement to jointly build the Megalopolis Research Institute for Economic and     

Lighting the Pathway to Adulthood Experience of a teacher from a rural primary school

The Model Primary School is a rural school located in a region joining the town and country in Jiamusi City,Heilongjiang Province.Sex education is a new idea and has never been taught there before. Two years ago,I had my first experience teaching a sex education class.During the first class,I blushed with embarrassment and found it difficult to talk about     

Grinding Ink Life of Li Pingye

正Grinding ink was an important step of painting and writing for Chinese literati in ancient times.Painter Mr.Li Pingye has been grinding his ink for nearly 80 years.It is diffi cult to tell whether he has been grinding ink or the ink has been grinding him.This famous contemporary Chinese traditional painter has experienced innumerable frustrations and sufferings of life.     

Interpretation of Regulation on Prohibiting Illegal Fetal Sex Identification and Sex-Selective Abortion without Medial Grounds

Background for Drafting the Regulation Since the 1980s,sex ratio at birth in China has been at a high level for more than 30 years.After years of efforts,itsgrowing momentum has been initially contained,but in 2015,the ratio still reached 113.51.After institutional     

Pay Attention to Adolescent Pregnancy and Abortion --Interview with Prof. Zou Yan

Zau Yan. female, researcher, majoring in evidence-based medicine. graduated from West China School af Medicine. Sichuan University and gained a degree of Medical Doctor. She had been engaged in clinical work of obstetrics and gynecology far ten years. Currently. she works as Head af Women Clinical Laboratory in the Scientific Research Institute of National Health and Family Planning Commission. and a master instructor of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Peking Union Medical College.     

Shanxi：State-Designated Project Site for Birth Defect Intervention

In order to curb the growing birth defect rate in Shanxi, the State designated four of its counties (Pingyao, Heshun, Zhongyang and Pingding) as pilot sites for a national project on birth defect intervention. The province as a whole has also been urged to take actions accordingly. Compared to the national average of 99.62 per 10,000, Shanxi has a birth defect rate of 189.86 per 10,000 births. In fact, it has reached 200-400 per 10,000 in 39 counties or cities, and is even higher, at more t…     

Indoors Pollution Increases Risk of Leukemia

With the advent of the World Childrens Day on November 20, the China Association of Interior Decoration and the Center for Child Health Care and Disease Prevention jointly conducted a survey and research project on the relationship between child leukaemia and indoors pollution. Currently, China has about 3,500 children who are hospitalized for leukaemia and the number has been increasing in recent years. Experts have become aware of the impact of interior decoration on the health of chi…     

Calligraphy and Stippling Transform Shanshui Realm——Appreciation of Xie Yuanxin's Landscape Painting

正Chinese landscape paintings have been adored by many people since the ancient times.In the art world with a riot of colors,Shanshui(landscape painting)can carry painters’interests,personalities and ideals more suitably,subtly and distantly.I have known Yuanxin for many years so I have some knowledge about his paintings,his philosophy,and the effort     

Survey to Assess Implementation of Women＇s Law

The Law on the Protection of the Rights andInterests of Women of the People‘s Republicof China is the first of its kind in China to focus on women and protection of their legal right sand interests. As of the year 2002, the Law had been put into effect for ten years. In order to understand     

Travel Notes on Water——splashing Festival in Ruili

正The Water-splashing Festival may be the most well-known festival of the ethnic minorities by people in China.It became popular because Zhou Enlai the fi rst premier of New China participated in the festival,and is also remembered by generations of people because the story has been     

Chinese Spend More on Housing & transport

Chinese people will spend more on housing andtransport than on food and clothes in the first 15years of the 21~st century, experts with the State Bureauof Light industry predicted at a symposium in January.That will mark a significant change in the nation'sconsumption structure, with major objects ofconsumption shifting from smaller and basic needs tomore expensive and comfortable conveniences, bureaumembers said.The pursuits of consumers are also shifting frommaterial to cultural and recreat…     

坚持计划生育基本国策稳定适度低生育水平(英文)

For 30 years, the family planning workers have made great efforts to promote the cause of family planning by carrying out the principles proposed in the ＂Open Letter＂ by CPC Central Committee, thus making an important contribution to effectively alleviating the pressure of population on environment and improving prenatal and postnatal care. However, it must be noted that China＇s population problem has always been a major economic and social development issue,