Government Provides Free Contraceptives

Each year, the Chinese government spends RMB400 million in procuring contraceptives for free distribution, according to Wang Guoqiang, Vice Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission. He made the remarks at a news conference for the Second China Reproductive Health/Family Planning New Technologies and Products Exposition. Due to financial constraints, contraceptives currently available for free distribution only contain commonly used methods such as oral pills…     

Chinese Government Earmarks Fund for MCH

The biggest MCH project ever undertaken since thefounding of the People's Republic of China in1949, which will benefit pregnant women and theirbabies in 378 poverty-stricken counties in 12 ofChina's 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomousregions, was officially launched on January 13 thisyear.The project was initiated in conmenmoration of the10th anniversary of the United Nations' passing of theConvention oil Children's Rights. The meeting wasco-sponsored by the Working Committee on …     

Japanese Government Helps China''''s Underdeveloped Regions

The China Export and Import Bank(Eximbank)signed agreements in Beijing in July with six Chineseprovincial government departments to use RMB5.59billion(US＄698.75 million)of Japanesegovernmental loans.     

Report on the Work of the Government

Following are main excerpts of the Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress on March 5, 2004. --Editor I. Review of the Past Year's Work Last year was a significant and unusual year in the course of China's development. We braved difficulties and hardships in an indomitable and innovative spirit and made important advances in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. -- …     

Government Helps Migrant Workers Recover Unpaid Salary

As the traditional Chinese New Year draws near, local governments in China have launched a special inspection of the country's building, services, catering and manufacturing industries and are taking complaints from the tens of thousands of migrant workers who remain unpaid.     

Government Takes Steps to Increase Farmers＇ Incomes

Though 2004 saw a sharp rise in farmers‘ incomes,the income gap between rural and urban residents continued to widen. Chinese officials consider this a major obstacle to what they call the “building of aharmonious society.”     

Japanese Government Helps China＇s Underdeveloped Regions

The China Export and Import Bank (Eximbank) signed agreements in Beijing in July with six Chinese provinGial government departments to use RMB5.59 billion (US$698.75 million) of Japanese governmental loans.     

Population and Family Planning Fund Included in Government Budget

China will further the reform of the population andfamily planning financial investment system byincluding the population and family planning fund in the government budget, said Zhang Weiqing,Minister of the National Population and FamilyPlanning Commission, at a July teleconference onRewarding Outstanding Organizations andIndividuals in the Anti-SARS War. As one of its ten objectives for the year 2003, theNPFPC is working closely with the financialdepartment to draft a concrete pla…     

Report on the Work of the Government （Excerpt）

The following is an excerpt from the REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT delivered at the First Session of the Eleventh National People＇s Congress on March 5^th ,2008, by Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council.     

Education of Children of Migrant Population: A Challenge for Government

AsthefreedomofmovementbecomesmoreaccessibletoordinaryChinese,China'sbigcitiesfaceanincreasinglyseriousproblem:migrantpopulation.Shanghai,China'slargestcity,forexample,hasamigrantpopulationof2.37million(1/6ofitspermanentpopulation),accordingtoa1997samplingsurvey.Whilecontributingtotheirhostcity'sdevelopment,themigrantpopulationfacesaseriesofchallengesintheirdailylife.Oneofthoseistheeducationoftheirchildren.ProblemsAccordingtothesamesurveymentionedabove,ofthe2.37millionmigrantpeoplelivinginSha…     

The Control of Population Growth Is the Function of the Central Government

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China's Below‐Replacement Fertility: Government Policy or Socioeconomic Development?

The article challenges the notion that below-replacement fertility and its local variation in China are primarily attributable to the government's birth planning policy. Data from the 2000 census and provincial statistical yearbooks are used to compare fertility in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, two of the most developed provinces in China, to examine the relationship between socioeconomic development and low fertility. The article demonstrates that although low fertility in China was achieved under the government's restrictive one-child policy, structural changes brought about by socioeconomic development and ideational shifts accompanying the new wave of globalization played a key role in China's fertility reduction.     

Does Internet Use Affect Netizens’ Trust in Government? Empirical Evidence from China

Social Indicators Research - Although the Internet has had a profound influence on China’s economy and society, the empirical research pertaining to political consequences of the Internet is...     

Addictive Substances,Users’ Health,and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility: French People’s Perspective

This paper uses a semiparametric latent variable transformation model for multiple outcomes to examine the effect of education and maternal education on female multidimensional well-being and proposes a procedure to build a well-being index that is less susceptible to functional form misspecification. We model multidimensional well-being as an unobserved common factor underlying the observed well-being outcomes. The semiparametric methodology allows us to alleviate misspecification bias by combining multiple indicators into a latent construct in an unspecified, data-driven way. Using data from female participants of the 1974–2010 waves of the US General Social Survey, we find that education, intelligence, and maternal education contribute positively to multidimensional well-being. However, the effects of education and maternal education on female multidimensional well-being declined steadily between the mid-1970s and the 1990s, and have not rebounded since.