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• China's NGOs praised for role in fighting HIV/AIDS
• China's anti-AIDS efforts "impressive": UNICEF official
• Shanghai to improve water quality at schools
• Major drug trial underway in Nanjing
• Steel-tools maker opens factory in Dalian
• Health testing must be boosted at grassroots level
• Forbidden City's Hall of Rectitude restored to former glory
• Police close markets, restaurants in anti-poaching sweep
• Chinese premier to attend prime ministers' meetings: FM spokesman
• China responds to outgoing Japanese envoy's words
• Factbox: China's commitments to fight climate change
• Billionaire quits political post after citizenship change
• At least 34 killed in Damascus' quaternary blasts
• China, Italy pledge to strengthen bilateral ties
• HIV/AIDS cases in Yunnan exceeds 100,000
• Zhengzhou gov't too slow with weibo updates
• 16 missing after fishing boat sinks off NE China coast
• Think tank suggests property tax for homes with 40 square m per person
• Senior CPC official to visit DPRK, Laos, Vietnam
• China calls for dialogue to settle Kosovo issue

China's NGOs praised for role in fighting HIV/AIDS Posted: 28 Nov 2012 11:15 AM PST The Chinese government has pledged to spend more in combating HIV/AIDS, while promising to give greater support to non-government organizations (NGOs) in this field.

China's anti-AIDS efforts "impressive": UNICEF official Posted: 28 Nov 2012 11:14 AM PST A United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official has praised China's work over the last two decades in raising awareness of HIV/AIDS prevention and care among AIDS-affected families and their children.

Shanghai to improve water quality at schools Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST Shanghai will improve water quality and standardize the water supply mode in local middle and primary schools, local education authorities said. About two-thirds of students failed to meet the recommended standard, which means they drink less than 1200 ml water a day, according a report on young people's drinking habits by the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety under China Center for Disease Control and Prevention released earlier this year. Officials said the insufficient water intake among students was related to the current water supply mode and quality in schools, where water must be boiled and filtered before drinking. The city has started a project to improve the water quality and supply for middle and primary schools, according to Shanghai Education Commission. Under this project, a drinking fountain with clean water supply will be installed into each school. More than 400 schools in the city have already been equipped with the water fountains. Under the plan, the rest of the 1,200 schools will be receive water facilities by 2015.

Major drug trial underway in Nanjing Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST A major drug trafficking trial involving 11 suspects began before the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court, on Tuesday. According to the court, the main suspect, surnamed Liu, transported 2.95 kilograms of ice from Shenzhen to Nanjing from sometime in 2011, until April 2012, when he was arrested by local police. On a chair in Liu's apartment Nanjing police found 910,000 yuan ($146,000) that Liu initially said was used to buy drugs, however, he now claims the money was from a construction project he was involved in. Liu denies being a drug trafficker, and claims that he did not know that his lover and brother, who are also on trial, were involved in the drug trade. The court has not yet reached a verdict.

Steel-tools maker opens factory in Dalian Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST Steel-tools maker Top-Eastern Drills Co Ltd opened on Wednesday a new plant in Dalian, Liaoning province. With a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan ($562.1 million), the newly built Dalian Top-Eastern Industrial Park covers an area of 670,000 square meters in the Dalian Free Trade Zone. The first phase of the project, which started operations on Wednesday, will produce 28,000 precise high-speed steel tools and 10,000 tons of high-speed rolled products for export per year. "The annual sales volume is expected to exceed 2.2 billion yuan after the first phase reaches its designed capacity," said Qi Shumin, president of the company. Established in 1994, Dalian-based TDC has grown into a group with 3,500 employees and 12 subsidiaries around the world. It has set up manufacturing bases and sales centers in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. According to Qi, the sales of TDC's main product, high-speed steel drills, account for 37 percent of the global market, ranking first in the world. In recent years, TDC has acquired some overseas companies, including world-famous Werko GmbH of Germany and Greenfield Industries of the US. The acquisitions helped the company to quickly become the top global maker of high-speed steel drills.

Health testing must be boosted at grassroots level Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST Experts called for strengthening the testing capabilities of grassroots health institutions to improve the country's response to epidemics. Although China has established a wide network to report epidemics, its functions and roles are restricted by limited abilities to detect and test at the grassroots levels, according to speakers at the Health Emergency Response Forum in Beijing on Nov 28. After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China established an Internet-based network of epidemics report in January 2004, covering almost all of its public hospitals in both urban and rural areas. All the hospitals in this network must report to the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention the 39 epidemics singled out by the Law on Epidemic Prevention and Treatment. "The network covers all public hospitals at the county level and above, and covers almost 95 percent of the township-level healthcare centers. It allows a healthcare institution to report epidemic cases directly to the China CDC," said Wang Liping, an official of the Center of Public Health Information Inspection and Service under the China CDC. But Yang Weizhong, deputy director of China CDC, said that the network needs to strengthen its function at the grassroots level of early detection. "The success in early detection depends very much on whether doctors at grassroots levels can diagnose the disease correctly as an epidemic case that needs to be reported immediately." But Yang said only those large hospitals in cities are well-equipped to determine the pathogen of the epidemic by examining the sample. "Only a very small proportion of the epidemics reported annually have gone through laboratory detection," he said. "For others, doctors rely on clinical diagnosis to determine the disease." Wang said the practice could delay the report of epidemic outbreaks. For example, "we receive many cases of infectious diarrhea from grassroots hospitals, but the cause of the disease is not specified", Wang said. "In case the diarrhea is caused by cholera, it could end up with delaying the report of the epidemic." The lack of laboratories at grassroots levels poses a challenge to detect and respond to severe epidemics in a timely manner.

Forbidden City's Hall of Rectitude restored to former glory Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST The Palace Museum and the Hong Kong-based China Heritage Fund, co-hosted a ceremony on Nov 27 to announce the completion of the restoration of the Hall of Rectitude complex. Situated in the northwest part of the Forbidden City, south of the Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness, the Hall of Rectitude complex is composed of 10 Tibetan Buddhist Buildings, and is the only complex consisting exclusively of Buddhist architecture. It once served as a place to conduct rituals of Tibetan Buddhist worship, and was first open in 1697. In 1923 a fire that started in the Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness spread to the complex and destroyed all but the Pavilion of the Rain of Flowers, a section of the Hall of Precious Prosperity and two other smaller structures. In 2006 after the Palace Museum and China Heritage Fund successfully rebuilt the Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness, the two continued to cooperate to starting rebuilding the Hall of Rectitude complex based on historic documents, file photos and paintings. The restored complex will be used as the Palace Museum's Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Heritage Research Center as well as the exhibiting space for Tibetan Buddhist statues, thangkas and musical instruments. An ongoing exhibition featuring more than 100 Tibetan cultural relics will be located within the complex. "The restoration brought an exquisite imperial pleasure ground back to life. A blemish from the devastation of the previous century was smoothed out, allowing the Palace Museum a great stride forward in making the Forbidden City whole again," said Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum. "The destruction of a nation's cultural heritage reflects the country's decline and turmoil, yet its restoration is a sure sign of the country's rise and prosperity," said Ronnie C. Chan, founding chairman of China Heritage Fund.

Police close markets, restaurants in anti-poaching sweep Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST Police in Southeast China closed several markets and restaurants that offered wild animals for sale on Nov 27, as efforts continue to tackle illegal poaching, the China News website reported. The closures came after CCTV reporters discovered that some restaurants in Zixi county, Jiangxi province, had State-protected animals on their menus, including macaques, badger pigs, rhizomys and wild geese. Agents from the public security bureau, plus forest rangers and officials from the forestry, industry and commerce, and food and drug regulatory departments of the county government conducted the investigation and shut down three markets that were trading wild animals and confiscated the animals. Police seized 47 wild boars, 22 muntjaks, two rhizomys, two hares and four snakes, according to the report. At the same time, they closed two restaurants, interrogated the owners and detained four suspected poachers. In addition, police carried out a special action to seize illegal hunting devices, leading to the confiscation of two soil pistols and more than 100 iron traps. Two hotlines have been opened for people to report the hunting and trading of wild animals, with 500 yuan ($80) to 2,000 yuan offered for information. The State Forestry Bureau has sent a team to Zixi for inspection and supervision, China News reported.

Chinese premier to attend prime ministers' meetings: FM spokesman Posted: 28 Nov 2012 05:07 AM PST Premier Wen Jiabaowill attend two prime ministers' meetings in Kyrgyzstan and Russiafrom Dec. 4 to 6, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced Wednesday.

China responds to outgoing Japanese envoy's words Posted: 28 Nov 2012 03:06 AM PST A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday responded to outgoing Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa's recent comments on bilateral ties and called on Japan to correct its wrongdoing.

Factbox: China's commitments to fight climate change Posted: 28 Nov 2012 01:25 AM PST Consistent efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy conservation have been made by China in an effort to fight global climate change.

Billionaire quits political post after citizenship change Posted: 28 Nov 2012 03:07 AM PST A businesswoman who renounced her Chinese nationality has applied to relinquish her membership of the political advisory body of a Beijing district.

At least 34 killed in Damascus' quaternary blasts Posted: 28 Nov 2012 01:34 AM PST At least 34 people were killed and 83 other injured after four blasts rocked the Jaramana suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier on Wednesday, the state- TV quoted an interior ministry source as saying.

China, Italy pledge to strengthen bilateral ties Posted: 28 Nov 2012 12:11 AM PST Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano have vowed to boost bilateral relations between the two countries.

HIV/AIDS cases in Yunnan exceeds 100,000 Posted: 27 Nov 2012 06:20 PM PST Southwest China's Yunnan Province has logged more than 100,000 cases of HIV/AIDS since it began taking records of the condition, the chief of local AIDS watchdog told Xinhua on Tuesday.

Zhengzhou gov't too slow with weibo updates Posted: 27 Nov 2012 11:51 PM PST Officials in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, have issued only one Weibo posting since registering an account on China's most popular microblog service more than six months ago, Henan's largest news website Dahe.cn reports.

16 missing after fishing boat sinks off NE China coast Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:26 PM PST One person was rescued and 16 others went missing Wednesday after their fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local maritime officials reported.

Think tank suggests property tax for homes with 40 square m per person Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:18 PM PST A leading Chinese think tank has suggested that China should levy property tax on homes featuring more than 40 square meters per person.

Senior CPC official to visit DPRK, Laos, Vietnam Posted: 27 Nov 2012 09:05 PM PST Liu Qibao, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will pay official visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Laos and Vietnam from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.

China calls for dialogue to settle Kosovo issue Posted: 27 Nov 2012 04:07 PM PST China on Tuesday urged all relevant parties to come to a settlement of the Kosovo issue through peaceful dialogue.

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