BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday invited more talented foreigners to work in China, saying the country will improve services for them. Wen made the remarks at a meeting with more than 20 representatives of foreign experts, who have helped in China's social progress.Wen said China pays equal attention to attracting both investment and talented personnel, while utilizing science and technology to achieve sustainable development. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) shakes hands with a foreign expert at a meeting with more than 20 representatives of foreign experts, who have helped in China's social progress, in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 9, 2010This calls for an active flow of talented foreigners to China to help with the nation's modernization drive, the premier said.He urged related organs to improve policy and service level for all the foreign experts coming to work in China. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with more than 20 representatives of foreign experts, who have helped in China's social progress, in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 9, 2010Isabel Crook, a 95-year-old Canadian expert in English teaching, gave her views on the key role that can be played by strong, vibrant rural communities.She suggested the government reevaluate the current practice of closing primary schools in small villages and concentrating them in larger villages.Other representatives of talented foreigners working in China, including Daniel Jospeh Dudek, a U.S. expert in environmental protection area, and Jean Dorey, a French expert in the education sector, offered suggestions to the Chinese government for tackling environmental challenges and boosting cooperation in the education sector.Wen listened attentively to their remarks and exchanged views.Wen also extended festival greetings to all foreign experts and international friends working in China, as well as to their families. He expressed gratitude for their contributions to China's development.
ABU DHABI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 2010 World Expo, slated for May 1 to Oct. 31 in the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai, will provide an opportunity for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China to enhance their mutual understanding, officials said Wednesday.The UAE is the first country to complete the "base-build" of its own pavilion at the Expo, with the exception of China's national pavilion, the state news agency WAM reported.The UAE pavilion will carry the Gulf nation's message to the people of China and many other countries, Saqr Ghobash, chairman of the National Media Council that is coordinating the project, was quoted as saying."We are particularly focused on the theme of Expo 2010 -- ' Better City Better Life' -- because we recognize that this resonates very deeply with the UAE's own experience," he said.Ghobash added that the UAE government and people have made huge strides towards creating a modern society that respects its past whilst embracing the present."We have much to share with our friends and partners in other countries. Expo 2010 provides an opportunity to do this and we are pleased to invite companies and organizations with commercial or other interests in China to participate with us in the six month long Expo 2010 in Shanghai," he said.Salem Al Ameri, commissioner general of the UAE pavilion, said there are still many opportunities for UAE companies to take advantage of the exposition."Whilst this is not a commercial exhibition in the usual sense of the word, it does offer many excellent opportunities for companies in the UAE and China to get to know each other better and to explore partnership or other opportunities. The UAE Pavilion offers a dedicated area for such exchanges and presentations," he said.
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The government and enterprises should continue to step up efforts in pollution and emission control to ensure targets set previously are met, according to a meeting of the State Council.The government should "slack no efforts" to cut pollutants and emissions to meet the targets as the situation remains "grave", according to a statement issued Wednesday after the councils' executive meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.The government set the goal to cut emissions of major pollutants, sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD) by 10 percent from 2006 to 2010, the 11th Five-Year Plan period.According to the meeting, the central task at present is to ensure pollution treatment facilities run normally.Vigorous efforts should be made to cut pollution from sectors including thermal power, iron and steel, non-ferrous metal, cement, paper making making, chemical, brewing and printing and dyeing, it said.The statement said the toughest standards should be applied in the management of water resources to ensure safe drinking water for people.Emissions of sulfur dioxide in China dropped 10.4 percent last year compared with that of 2008, Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian said Monday.Zhou said the country's COD and emissions of sulfur dioxide fell for four consecutive years after the targets were set at the beginning of 2006.
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China faces potential challenges in maintaining food security despite years of good harvest, a legislator said here Wednesday.In some areas, farmland is often used illegally for non-agricultural purposes or abandoned by farmers who move to work in cities, posing the most serious threat to grain production, said Liu Hui, who is also deputy director of the administration of grain in the eastern Anhui Province.Other challenges include natural disasters, low scienctific and technical level in grain production, backward infrastructure, and low grain prices that dampen the enthusiasm of both farmers and local governments.The deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), or the top legislature, made the remarks two days before the NPC annual session starts.Liu suggested that the government should clear the obstacles in the grain production and circulation and increase financial input in major grain producing areas to prevent possible decline in output.China's grain output reached 530.8 million tonnes in 2009, exceeding 500 million tonnes for the third consecutive year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics revealed.
BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers from across the country have gathered in Beijing for the upcoming Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC).NPC deputies from central China's Henan Province arrived in Beijing by train at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, becoming the last group to reach the country's capital city for the annual parliament session, which is scheduled to begin Friday.Aside from reviewing the government's work report for last year, voting on the central and local governments' draft budgets for 2010, discussing an amendment to the Electoral Law and mapping out this year's development blueprint, the lawmakers will also take part in three rounds of online dialogues with the public.The three online dialogues would be held on March 5, March 11, and March 12, respectively.The lawmakers would be joined by officials from the Ministry of Health, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate during the online dialogues.The NPC session's press center has begun soliciting questions for the three dialogues on the NPC's website, as well as from a dozen of popular news portals, including Xinhuanet, on Tuesday.
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Both output and sales values of China's machinery industry exceeded 10 trillion yuan (1.46 trillion U.S. dollars) last year, the China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) said here Wednesday.Output value reached 10.75 trillion yuan in 2009, up 16.07 percent from the year earlier. Sales value was 10.48 trillion yuan, up 16.11 percent,said Wang Ruixiang, the CMIF director.From January to November last year, the sector's profits reached 581.6 billion yuan, up 22.8 percent year on year.The auto sector was the "engine" that drove the overall growth of the industry last year, said Wang, adding nearly 30 percent of output value of the machinery industry was generated by automakers.Wang predicted the machinery sector would reach a 15 percent growth in output and sales values this year, with profits likely to grow 10 percent.
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BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- China has chosen 16 cities to pilot reform of government-run hospitals in an effort to ease public complaint of rising medical bills, according to an official circular released on Tuesday.The cities are required to establish a reasonable, effective and optimized medical service system, and to fully motivate all medical workers to provide the public with safe, effective, convenient and affordable medical services, according to the document.Public hospitals must retain its goal of serving the public interests and their top priority should be protecting people's health, said the document, jointly issued by five ministries including the Ministry of Health.The cities, including six in central China, six in the east and four in the west, were asked to start the reform from this year.China in April 2009 unveiled a blueprint for health-care over the next decade, kicking off a much-anticipated reform to fix its ailing medical system. The core principle of the reform is to provide basic health care as a "public service" to the people.Health Minister Chen Zhu said serving the public interests should be underscored in the health care reform and the public hospitals should play a leading role in it.MOH statistics show that China had about 14,000 public hospitals nationwide by November 2009.Li Ling, prof. with the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University, said the reform meant public hospitals would return to its nature of serving the public rather than making money."This is key to solving the complaints of costly medical service," Li said.Public hospitals in China enjoyed full government funding before 1985. Since then the situation changed as public hospitals embarked on a market-oriented reform as economic reform and opening up policy adopted in late 1978 deepened in the country."Public hospitals were allowed to make profits to invigorate themselves since then," said Xie Pengyan, professor of Peking University First Hospital. "Our hospital grew fast and my income increased remarkably since that year."Analysts said the market-oriented reform had greatly improved medical service to some extent. But the fact that hospitals operated using profits from medical services and drug prescriptions also resulted in soaring medical costs.According to the circular, public hospitals will not be allowed to make profit from drug prescriptions. They should operate on government funding and charges from medical services.The document also said that efforts should be made to strengthen hospitals in rural areas. Public hospitals are required to train medical workers for grassroot medical institutions.
YINCHUAN, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for more efforts to promote social, economic development in the underdeveloped western areas of the country.Hu made the call during his three-day visit to northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from Sunday to Tuesday.This year marks the tenth anniversary of China's campaign to develop the west.Hu said the past decade witnessed a good beginning of and laid a solid foundation for the "West Development" drive and the next decade would be a crucial period for pushing forward the campaign. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) visits Shizuishan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Hu Jintao called for more efforts to promote social, economic development in the underdeveloped western areas of the country during his three-day visit to northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from March 21 to 23To develop the west would remain one of the priorities in the 12th five-year plan starting 2011, during which the central government would provide more favorable policies and greater funds to western areas, Hu said.He called for transforming the economic growth pattern, and improving people's livelihood, as he visited local factories, farms, renovated shanty-towns and new villages housing farmers that had migrated to from virtually uninhabitable areas.In his visit to a successful company which manufactures rare metal products, Hu said the central government attached strategic importance to developing the new material industry. He called on companies to innovate technology, produce new products and implement new management practices.
BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's National Marine Forecasting Station on Tuesday issued an alarm on sea ice as it was developing fast off the country's eastern coast. In the following week, the floating chunks of ice could extend up to 90 nautical miles off the coast of Baohai Sea and 25 nautical miles in the northern Yellow Sea. The ice thickness could measure up to 40 cm, the station said. The station warned of threats to port infrastructure, transportation and maritime operations. Fishing boats are seen trapped by sea ice in Laizhou Bay, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 12, 2010. The most severe icing situation in the past 30 years in the coast off Shandong Province continued to worsen amid cold snaps. Sea ice appeared last week along the coastline of the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow Sea as cold fronts pushed the temperature down to minus 10 degrees Celsius The worst sea ice in the past 30 years appeared from early Jan. along the coastline of the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow Sea as cold fronts pushed the temperature down to minus 10 degrees Celsius and below. Sea ice in the Liaodong Bay nearly doubled to 71 nautical miles Tuesday from 38 nautical miles on December 31. With another cold front expected this week, the sea ice along the coastline would further develop, the station said.
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders joined lawmakers Wednesday in discussions on the work report of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.In the deliberation with lawmakers from central China's Henan Province,Hu said he totally agrees with the report delivered by Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, at the annual session of the NPC, China's supreme legislature.In addition, Hu urged the province, a leading grain grower in China, to make efforts to improve its agricultural production capacities, ensure supplies of farm produce and sharpen its agricultural competitiveness in the world. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R, front) joins a panel discussion with deputies to the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress from central China's Henan Province in Beijing, China, March 10, 2010Hu also said emphasis should be put on improving people's livelihood, especially in education, employment, social security, health care and housing.He also stressed promoting the progress of non-profit cultural programs and cultural industry to meet people's demands.Addressing deputies from Shanxi Province, top legislator Wu Bangguo pledged the NPC Standing Committee would be open to the supervision of the deputies and the people.Wu said the top priority of the legislative work this year is to shape a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.Wu vowed to speed up legislation efforts for the formation of such a system.In the deliberation with NPC deputies from Hebei Province, Premier Wen Jiabao said he entirely endorses the legislative report, while calling on the province to intensify its efforts in transforming the economic growth pattern and readjusting industrial structures.The province should push ahead the structural readjustment of traditional industries, cultivate new pillar industries and vigorously develop service industries such as finance, insurance and logistics, Wen said.Vice President Xi Jinping discussed the report with lawmakers from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He urged to further promote harmony and stability in regions inhabited by ethnic minorities.He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, joined deputies from Inner Mongolia.In the discussion, He, also chief of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, called for intensified efforts in combating corruption.Concrete efforts should be made to establish gradually an effective anti-corruption system, He said.Zhou Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, joined lawmakers from Sichuan Province.Practice has repeatedly proved the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics is a good system, said Zhou, citing the achievements in reconstruction of quake-devastated Sichuan Province and China's comparatively fast recovery from the global financial crisis.