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 A national health survey in 2003 revealed that about 73 percent of people in rural areas who should have sought medical treatment chose not to do so because of the fear of high costs.

 The plight of Chinese farmers has provoked national leaders to move to restore rural medical cooperatives and to establish a nationwide safety net of minimal medical insurance.

 Minister Chen said the program, after being in operation for more than four years, has helped ease the chronic difficulty faced by Chinese farmers in paying medical charges and significantly improved rural medical services.

 He said the country is working to establish a stable money-raising channel for the fund and efforts will be made to ensure that central and local government subsidies are allocated to the fund quickly and used efficiently.

 But experts believe there is a long way to go before the cooperative scheme can meet the needs of the rural people.

 Wu Ming, professor with the medical school of Peking University, told Xinhua in April, "With an average reimbursement rate for hospital fees only standing at a meagre 27.5 percent, the current subsidies are still utterly inadequate in dealing with grave and terminal diseases."

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<title>WEF to work out solutions to China's growth pressure</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:22:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[World elites will work together at the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions, or summer Davos meeting, to find solutions to ease China's pressure brought by high economic growth, said a senior official with the World Economic Forum  ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[World elites will work together at the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions, or summer Davos meeting, to find solutions to ease China's pressure brought by high economic growth, said a senior official with the World Economic Forum (WEF).

 China, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, has enjoyed an annual GDP growth of about ten percent for past decade. Along with economic boom, problems such as trade friction and pollution come into sight.

 By working together, the "new champions" can help find solutions to address these problems, said Jeremy Jurgens, chief representative of the WEF Beijing office in an exclusive interview with Xinhua ahead of the WEF summer meeting.

 "There is a huge opportunity for China to continue its successful growth path and become more and more important to do this in collaboration and in partnership with international companies and governments," he said.

 The conference, to be held in China's northeastern coastal city of Dalian from Sept. 6 to 8, is dubbed summer Davos meeting in comparison with the WEF's annual meeting at Swiss winter resort Davos.

 More than 1,700 officials and business leaders from 90 countries and regions are expected to take part in the event. The meeting will focus on the roles of the emerging transnational companies, or New Champions, are playing. 

Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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<title>Airline to provide in-flight e-mailing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:43:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Domestic airline passengers will be able to make phone calls and send e-mails from the sky from next year, a local carrier has said.

Shenzhen Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement with Geneva-based OnAir to provide passenger ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[Domestic airline passengers will be able to make phone calls and send e-mails from the sky from next year, a local carrier has said.

Shenzhen Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement with Geneva-based OnAir to provide passengers with in-flight communications services on all its planes by the end of 2009.

The service will be introduced on three aircraft ahead of the 2008 Olympics, on two routes - from Shenzhen to Beijing and Shenzhen to Shanghai, the airline said.

Passengers will be able to use their own electronic devices to send e-mails and short messages, make calls and surf the Internet, it said.

The service is expected to be of particular interest to business travelers.

According to a survey published in the Guangzhou-based Information Times, at the end of last year, China had 4.55 million mobile-phone subscribers. Ninety-three percent of those polled said they wished they could send and receive e-mails and messages while on a plane.

However, not everyone thinks it is a good idea.

Architect Ma Qin said: "Many people talk loudly on the phone. If people like that are allowed to make calls on planes and they keep talking for the whole flight, it will be disastrous."

An official with Shenzhen Airlines said yesterday the carrier had not yet worked out all the logistics, but will do so before the launch. Passengers might be arranged into different sections of the aircraft, for example, he said.

Despite the introduction of the new service, passengers will still be prohibited from using their cell phones and laptops when the plane is taking off and landing, or flying at less than 3,000 m above sea level, the official said.

The official said the new service would not lead to an increase in ticket prices, but users of Chinese mobile-phone services will be charged the international roaming rate for any calls made from the sky.

Shenzhen Airlines is the first Chinese carrier to provide such in-flight communications services. Its president, Li Kun, said installing the facilities will cost 4.5 million yuan ($596,000) per aircraft.

However, the project still needs to be approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, a source said.

OnAir has signed contracts with five European airlines and four Asian airlines to provide communication services, although none is yet up and running.

Shenzhen Airlines has 50 aircraft and flies more than 130 routes within China and to South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and Vietnam. The company carried more than 7 million passengers in 2006.

Source: China Daily 
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<title>Pentagon hacking charge denied</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:30:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[China yesterday described as "groundless" and a product of "Cold War mentality" reports claiming hackers, on the instructions of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), had broken into a Pentagon network.

The Financial Times, citing unidenti ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[China yesterday described as "groundless" and a product of "Cold War mentality" reports claiming hackers, on the instructions of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), had broken into a Pentagon network.

The Financial Times, citing unidentified former and serving US officials, said yesterday that PLA hackers had broken into a US Defense Department network in June to steal data, forcing the shutdown of a system serving department secretary Robert Gates.

"The Chinese government has consistently opposed and vigorously attacked all Internet crimes, including hacking," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular news briefing in Beijing yesterday.

China itself is a victim of online attacks, she said.

A Symantec Internet Security Threat Report released in March found that the US is the source of about 31 percent of all malicious computer activities, more than four times that of China (7 percent) and Germany (7 percent).

And 51 percent of the servers used for buying or selling stolen personal information were in the US, the report said.

Experts have said that hackers in other countries could use insecure computers and networks in China to disguise their locations and launch attacks.

Source: China Daily
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<title>Red carpet welcome for President Hu in Canberra</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:30:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CANBERRA: Australia's Governor-General Michael Jeffery rolled out the red carpet, complete with the traditional presidential greeting and 21-gun salute, to welcome President Hu Jintao last night.

During their meeting, Hu commended the ra ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[CANBERRA: Australia's Governor-General Michael Jeffery rolled out the red carpet, complete with the traditional presidential greeting and 21-gun salute, to welcome President Hu Jintao last night.

During their meeting, Hu commended the rapid growth of bilateral ties, saying China and Australia are becoming models of friendly co-existence and mutually beneficial cooperation for countries with different social systems.

Hu said he is confident China's comprehensive cooperative relationship with Australia will develop at a fast pace.

Jeffery corroborated Hu, and said frequent high-level exchanges between the two countries have helped strengthen bilateral cooperation and coordination in the fields of trade, energy, education and international affairs.

He urged the two sides to step up efforts in joint research for clean energy and cultivation in arid regions.

Before flying to Australia's capital Canberra, Hu visited Western Australia, focusing his 18-hour stay largely on observing the development of new processing technologies.

The president visited CSIRO's Australian Resources Research Centre yesterday morning, where he saw a petroleum drilling system designed for hard rock or deep earth drilling. He was shown a BHP Billiton minerals processing laboratory, too.

He then visited Rio Tinto's pioneering pig iron plant, HIsmelt, at Kwinana, south of Perth, capital of Western Australia. The plant, co-sponsored by Australia, the US, Japan and China, was built in 2002. It is well known for having a low operating cost and emitting less greenhouse gas than traditional iron-making plants.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh said Hu showed "a lot of interest" in Australian research and development and in Rio's HIsmelt technology, for which Rio has issued two licenses in China.

China is Western Australia's largest export market and its second largest trading partner. In recent years, China and Australia's resource-rich state have carried out a series of large cooperation projects in the fields of energy and natural resources.

Source: China Daily]]></full-text>
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<title>New building rules designed for safety</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:38:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[GUANGZHOU: Building officials are hoping newly implemented survey and design regulations will improve construction in the province.

"The provincial construction department has been promoting the regulations since they became effective ea ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[GUANGZHOU: Building officials are hoping newly implemented survey and design regulations will improve construction in the province.

"The provincial construction department has been promoting the regulations since they became effective early in June," Chen Yingsong, deputy director of the Guangdong provincial construction department, said.

"[The regulations] are expected to play a role in improving survey and design quality, boosting resource-saving design and improving management of the building sector in the province."

The regulations involve making architects legally responsible for their designs, and giving citizens more of a say in landmark projects. Energy-saving design is also promoted in the new rules.

Additionally, companies will be prohibited if they allow unqualified designers to work on jobs.

"The recent collapse of the Jiujiang Bridge in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong, has made people aware of the design issues of massive construction projects," said Ding Li, an expert with the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences.

A section of the 1,600-m-long bridge collapsed after a barge laden with sand crashed into it in June, killing nine people.

Source: China Daily 
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<title>Migrant kids snub hometowns, roots</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:36:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The children of migrant workers in Shanghai are turning against their hometowns and becoming arrogant, it has been claimed.

Kids brought up in Shanghai have a feeling of superiority when they return to their birthplaces, Zhang Yichao, th ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[The children of migrant workers in Shanghai are turning against their hometowns and becoming arrogant, it has been claimed.

Kids brought up in Shanghai have a feeling of superiority when they return to their birthplaces, Zhang Yichao, the founder of a chorus group who has been organizing trips for the young migrants to the countryside, said.

The 35 chorus group members are aged from 11 to 16, born in rural areas and are growing up in Shanghai. They were making 12-day trips to their hometowns of Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces last month.

Zhang set up the chorus in February last year with an American. It is the first troupe in Shanghai comprising the children of migrant workers.

Following an 18-month training course by voluntary teachers they put on performances at venues such as the Shanghai Oriental Art Center and Jinmao Tower, China's second-highest building.

On their visits to the countryside the kids held chorus and solo shows, with electric instruments, for the farmers. They also played games with local children and collated information to write reports.

"Few of these children maintain their affection for their hometowns and they don't like the countryside. I hope these trips will help them remember their early childhood and the rural areas where they were born," Zhang said.

For the first few days, he said, the kids kept their distance from farmers, complained about dirty toilets, muddy sidewalks and shabby housing. They even hid the fact they were from rural areas themselves.

"It's obvious these children liked the feeling of superiority in front of their country fellows," Zhang said.

"What we can do, however, is help them face up to the fact they were born in rural areas and perhaps then they will be more fond of these places.

"They are still young and innocent and I believe they will build up a positive life philosophy and make their own contributions to society," chorus volunteer Liu Jing said.

"Children of migrant workers need more education in all aspects of life. This trip to the countryside is just a small part and we are organizing other activities," Zhang said.

Source: China Daily 
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<title>Juveniles, foreigners swell triad numbers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:31:17 +0800</pubDate>