April 1, 2017

 

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting Friday, calling for greater effort on poverty alleviation.

 

April 1, 2017

 

China saw 104,538 new registered organ donors last year, almost 100 times more than in 2010.

 

Nearly 170,000 organ donors had registered as of the end of 2016, over 60 percent young or middle-aged, according to the China Organ Donation Administrative Center.

 

Almost 11,300 vital organs were donated nationwide last year, an increase of 45 percent from 2015. By the end of 2016, China had recorded 9,996 cases of after-death organ donation, resulting in the donation of 27,613 vital organs.

 

April 5,2017

 

China's Ministry of Education has issued a document encouraging schools and kindergartens to install surveillance cameras in kitchens and pantries to monitor the entire process of food production and to improve food safety.

 

April 5, 2017

 

China can fulfill its goal of eradicating poverty by 2020 so long as governments make efforts based on reality and with a down-to-earth attitude, according to a meeting on Friday chaired by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

 

April 6, 2017

 

China's State Council on Wednesday mapped out key tasks for economic system reform this year, stressing continued reform efforts to aid people's livelihood and prepare for the tough fight in ensuring employment.

 

April 7, 2017

 

China aims to increase secondary education coverage nationwide to 90 percent or more by 2020 from 87.5 percent in 2016, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday.

 

April 10,2017

 

Patients in Beijing will spend less on drugs but pay more to see doctors, with the total expense expected to be about the same after the city government on Saturday stopped public hospitals from profiting from medicine sales.

 

April 10,2017

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that he is ready to work with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, to push forward China-U.S. relations from a new starting point.

 

April 11,2017

 

The United Nations Working Party Conference was held in Geneva from April 3th to 7th, 2017. 

 

The conference focused on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the rights to development, drafted the international standards for the rights to development, and made preparations for the upcoming UN high-level political forum in July. 

 

April 12,2017

 

The Comprehensively Advancing Rule of Law and China’s Human Rights New Development Seminar was held in Chongqing Tuesday. It is hosted by China Society for Human Rights Studies(CSHRS) and undertaken by Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL).

 

April 14, 2017 

 

Chinese central authorities released a detailed 10-year youth development plan Thursday, vowing better education, employment and healthcare for the nation's youth.

 

April 17, 2017

 

China recorded 14 million blood donations in 2016, up 6.1 percent from the previous year, according to the country's health watchdog.

 

April 17, 2017

 

China's top-level universities will recruit more students from rural and poor regions in 2017, according to a circular by the Ministry of Education Friday.

 

April 17, 2017

 

China will toughen supervision over food safety this year to ensure food quality "from the production line to the dining table."

 

The government will take the strictest standards, toughest supervision, harshest punishment and the most serious accountability system to improve public food safety, according to a statement released by the State Council on Friday.

 

April 17, 2017

 

China has continued to synchronize enterprises and institutions to raise the basic pension for over 100 million retirees in 2017, but at a milder pace amid pressure from economic slowdown and aging population.

 

The central government has approved the average monthly payments for both enterprise and institution retirees to be increased by about 5.5 percent from the 2016 level.

 

April 21, 2017

 

Markups on drug prices have been abolished in the capital's hospitals as part of a series of measures to provide better, targeted treatment at lower prices. Wang Xiaodong reports.

 

April 24, 2017 

 

Over 2 million impoverished patients were treated in China in 2016, said Wang Pei'an, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) on Friday.

 

April 25, 2017

 

The country is to extend the current nine-year compulsory education to encompass high school students nationwide by 2020, according to a guideline recently released by the Ministry of Education and other three ministries.

 

April 25, 2017

 

Nuclear facility operators must take full responsibility for safety, according to a draft law submitted to China's top legislature for a second reading on Monday.

 

April 25, 2017

 

China and African countries held a ministerial conference here on Monday with the aim of stepping up China-Africa cooperation in health.

 

April 28, 2017

 

Chinese political advisors on Thursday put their heads together to offer suggestions on the revision of the country's Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.

 

April 28, 2017

 

China is willing to deepen pragmatic cooperation with South Africa on women's affairs, said visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong here on Wednesday.