MIL-OSI China: Falling marriage rate reflects changing times
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Editor’s Note: Over the past six years, the marriage rate, the ratio of registered marriages to the total population in a year, has been dropping. For example, only 72 couples out of every 10,000 people in China got married last year, the lowest marriage rate since 2013. Simultaneously, the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Greenbelts along Qiantang River show off Hangzhou’s urban plan
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 With the completion of a 1,000-kilometer urban greenbelt along the iconic Qiantang River, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is advancing toward its goal of becoming a green city. In January, the city government issued a blueprint of its urban development strategy, which features the protection and development of the river, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: China bans fishing in river flowing into Arctic
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Chinese fishery authority said that fishing will be completely banned in the Ertix River, the only river in China that flows into the Arctic Ocean. The fishery management center in the Altay prefecture, in the northern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said fishing will be banned year-round […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Beijing to promote foreign-related legal services
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 More efforts are expected to be made to promote foreign-related legal service development in Beijing, according to the Beijing Lawyers Association. The association said it would help set up training systems aimed to introduce more talent to foreign-related legal services, in response to a recent survey report that […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: 59 discharged after deadly chemical plant blast in E China
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 A total of 59 people have been discharged from hospitals after a blast hit a chemical plant in east China’s Jiangsu Province Thursday, according to the rescue headquarters. As of 12 p.m. Sunday, 604 patients, including 117 severely injured ones, remain in 16 hospitals in Yancheng, Li Shaodong, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Beijing tackles child obesity, short-sightedness
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Beijing health authorities have rolled out policies to tackle child obesity, myopia and psychosocial problems. Beijing will create a database for children’s eye health, a move that will help schools and doctors to detect problems and give suggestions to parents, said Xi Shuyan, director of the division of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Chinese study helps trace evolution of fish scales
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Fish fossils, dating back about 425 million years ago, are providing insights into the evolution of scales on bony fishes. Diversified scales are one of the most obvious exterior characteristics of fish and they can be distributed in different areas of a fish in different shapes, which is […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Media registration system for Beijing horticultural expo to open March 25
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 The media registration system for the upcoming International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 Beijing China will open on March 25, the media center of the Beijing horticultural expo said Sunday. Journalists who apply to interview the exhibition can log into the official website (http://exhibitionreg.news.cn) and the deadline for the registration […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Opening up ‘a distinctive symbol’ of China today: vice premier
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng said Sunday that opening up has become “a distinctive symbol of contemporary China,” and the country will unswervingly open still wider to the outside world. “China has pursued development with its door open and succeeded in transforming a closed and semi-closed economy into […]
Read More →MIL-OSI China: Chinese physicist wins OSA’s 2019 R.W. Wood Prize
Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Pan Jianwei, a renowned Chinese physicist and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) won the 2019 R. W. Wood Prize presented by the Optical Society of America (OSA), the university said Friday. It is the first time that a Chinese scientist has won […]
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