Item from Feb 20, 1994, in China Daily: Sales clerks show off dogs to customers at the Yiya World Pet Market in Beijing.
China suspended all coal imports from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Sunday as part of moves to prevent Pyongyang further advancing its weapons program.
Through improvements in nutrition, a tenfold reduction in infant mortality, a 97 percent cut in the incidence of communicable diseases and fast increases in public health spending to improve sanitation, water quality and access to care, China has made rapid progress in improving the life expectancy and health of the population.
It took Choe Bu, a Korean living in the late 15th century, 135 days to make the trek from a tiny town on China's eastern coast to Beijing, capital of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and then back to his motherland.
A study published in the renowned British medical journal The Lancet, in October 2015, brought some very good news about improved health and life-expectancy throughout China.
In a bid to reform medical care with the support of big data and information technology, Shanghai is trying to develop a family doctor model and build a graded diagnosis system.
Before implementing a major reform throughout the country, China often tests policies in small regions. This gives central and regional governments experimental data and insight into the critically important details of policy. Sanming city, in East China's Fujian province, has been one of the pilot cities for healthcare reform.
In August, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council hosted the National Hygiene and Health Conference in Beijing. President and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping summed up the achievements and basic experiences of the hygiene and health cause since the founding of the country, and expounded on the guiding ideology, goals and tasks of promoting a healthy China. He stressed that well-off must embrace overall health, meaning that health should become a strategic priority.
President Xi Jinping called on Friday for all-out efforts to improve China's national security.
The first meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday ended with an upbeat tone, which observers said will help clarify the US policy toward China and boost collaboration between the two countries on major bilateral and international affairs.
Building a community of common destiny is "pretty significant" and "in the long run, it profits us all", said Philipp Charwath, chairman of the 55th session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development.
New Zealand sits atop a previously unknown continent - mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific - that should be recognized with the name Zealandia, scientists said on Friday.
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