China ramps up public health literacy with three-year campaign

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China further expands basic medical insurance portfolio

BEIJING -- China has opted for a further expansion of its basic medical insurance portfolio through enriching its medical insurance drug catalog, increasing centralized medicine procurement, and including more medical services in the scheme, a Saturday conference on medical insurance work revealed. According to details released at this industry work conference, 91 new drugs have been added to the latest …

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Science literacy definition has evolved, experts say

China Daily

Global experts shared their ideas and experiences on STEM education and science literacy assessment methods during the 2024 World Conference on Science Literacy, which was held in Beijing last week. Liu Xiufeng, chair professor at the Faculty of Education and director of the Educational Testing and Assessment Research Center at the University of Macau, said that the definition of science …

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Science literacy definition has evolved, experts say

China Daily

Global experts shared their ideas and experiences on STEM education and science literacy assessment methods during the 2024 World Conference on Science Literacy, which was held in Beijing last week. Liu Xiufeng, chair professor at the Faculty of Education and director of the Educational Testing and Assessment Research Center at the University of Macau, said that the definition of science …

Science Literacy Stem Science Literacy

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Top 10 Chinese buzzwords of 2024 unveiled

China Daily

BEIJING -- "China Travel", "Paris Olympics" and "New Quality Productive Forces" are among the "top 10 Chinese buzzwords" of 2024, the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center announced Saturday. The list, as part of the yearly event "Chinese language review 2024", also included "Artificial Intelligence", "Fostering Virtue and Educating People", "Global South", "Trade-in", "Low-altitude Economy", "Future Industries" and "New …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Top 10 Chinese buzzwords of 2024 unveiled

China Daily

BEIJING -- "China Travel", "Paris Olympics" and "New Quality Productive Forces" are among the "top 10 Chinese buzzwords" of 2024, the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center announced Saturday. The list, as part of the yearly event "Chinese language review 2024", also included "Artificial Intelligence", "Fostering Virtue and Educating People", "Global South", "Trade-in", "Low-altitude Economy", "Future Industries" and "New …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Haleon increasing investment in its China JV for supply chain edge

China Daily

Brian McNamara, CEO of Haleon. The move aims to further reinforce its supply chain operations and innovation capabilities in China, enhancing the company's ability to meet the growing demand for consumer healthcare products in the country, said Brian McNamara, CEO of Haleon. In addition to launching a gum health brand named Paradontax in China earlier this year, McNamara said the …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Over 1 million resident doctors trained in past decade via standardized system

China Daily

BEIJING -- China has trained a total of 1.07 million resident doctors over the past decade, with more than 30 percent specializing in high-demand fields such as general practice, pediatrics, psychiatry and critical care medicine, according to a Chinese health official. Zeng Yixin, vice-minister of the National Health Commission, shared the details at a recent medical education forum, noting that …

Resident Doctors

3 weeks ago

Xi says China committed to making traditional medicine better benefit world

China Daily

BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping on Tuesday reaffirmed China's commitment to enhancing traditional medicine to better benefit people around the world. China is willing to work with the international community to foster mutual learning in traditional medicines, integrate them more deeply into the global health system, and promote the innovative transformation and development of traditional medicine culture, Xi added. On …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Youth HIV Prevention Campaign 2024: art exhibition challenges HIV stigma

China Daily

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-12-02 17:41 On the occasion of the 37th World AIDS Day, the Chinese Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control and China Youth Daily, with support from Gilead Sciences, co-organized the Youth HIV Prevention Campaign 2024. On the occasion of the 37th World AIDS Day, the Chinese Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control and …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

China Cancer Foundation raised $4.6b since inception

China Daily

The Cancer Foundation of China said recently that it has raised medication, funds and supplies with a total worth of 33.6 billion yuan and brought benefits to over 5 million people in the past four decades by the end of last year. The foundation, established in 1984 and administered by the National Health Commission, is committed to assisting cancer patients …

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1 month ago

China mandates parental oversight to enhance food safety on campus

China Daily

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-11-22 21:08 BEIJING -- China has urged schools to involve parents in overseeing the food served on campuses, reaffirming the country's commitment to safeguarding the health of its younger generation. Parent oversight commissions should be established to ensure parents' rights to supervise the bidding and procurement of food materials, principals dining on the same food with students, …

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1 month ago

Trump fills out his key public health roles

CNN

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article was first published on November 22. Trump, for his part, said on the campaign trail that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.” US surgeon general Also known as “the nation’s doctor,” the surgeon general is a medical doctor who focuses on educating and advising Americans on how to improve their …

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1 month ago

Cancer survival rates in China on the rise

China Daily

The overall five-year survival rate of cancer in China has been increasing year by year, rising from 30.9 percent at the beginning of this century to 43.7 percent by 2022, according to the latest data from the National Cancer Center. He added that the urban early diagnosis and treatment project for cancer promoted by the National Cancer Center has now …

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1 month ago

Cancer survival rates in China on the rise

China Daily

The overall five-year survival rate of cancer in China has been increasing year by year, rising from 30.9 percent at the beginning of this century to 43.7 percent by 2022, according to the latest data from the National Cancer Center. He added that the urban early diagnosis and treatment project for cancer promoted by the National Cancer Center has now …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society

China Daily

China is intensifying its efforts to build a more childbirth-friendly society through a multipronged approach. The government has unveiled a range of stimulus measures to support families with children, including expanding child care systems, cultivating a birth-friendly social atmosphere, and strengthening education, housing and employment support.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society

China Daily

China is intensifying its efforts to build a more childbirth-friendly society through a multipronged approach. The government has unveiled a range of stimulus measures to support families with children, including expanding child care systems, cultivating a birth-friendly social atmosphere, and strengthening education, housing and employment support.

Government Law Family Social Jiangxi

3 months ago

US consumer health company Kenvue eyes innovation to tap China's growing market

China Daily

Gift Samabhandhu, president of Kenvue China, speaks at a sub-forum during the 2024 China International Fair for Investment & Trade in Xiamen, Fujian province, in early September. Kenvue Inc, a United States-based consumer health company, will allocate more resources to innovate over-the-counter drugs and health supplements to keep pace with the rapidly evolving market trends in China, said a senior …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China to enhance TCM's role in providing healthcare services: official

China Daily

BEIJING -- China will strengthen the role of traditional Chinese medicine in advancing its Healthy China Initiative, said a senior official at the National Health Commission. China now boasts 41,700 TCM clinics and over 99 percent of community- and township-level medical institutions are capable of providing TCM services. In 2023, China's 93,000 TCM specialized medical institutions recorded 1.54 billion medical …

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4 months, 1 week ago

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves

China Daily

BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have decided to launch a campaign for 2024-2027, aiming to improve necessary medical and health services for the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves. A circular has been issued requiring eligible medical and health institutions, principally grassroots institutions, as well as nurseries and …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Support boosted for depressed adolescents

China Daily

Students play games in groups to learn about mental health at a primary school in Beijing. DU LIANYI/CHINA DAILY Age old problem The number of depression cases increases as children progress through school, according to research on the annual evolution of adolescent mental health status from 2009 to 2020 contained in the 2020 Blue Book of Mental Health in China. …

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5 months ago

Progress in fighting Alzheimer's disease highlighted at conference

China Daily

Chen Xiaochun, a professor from the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and Chen Shanwen, chairman of Hangzhou CellGer Biotechnology Co Ltd, introduce the implementation of a demonstration center for brain health screening to Chen Zhu, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. CHINA DAILY During the 2024 China Brain Health Conference held in Beijing on Saturday and Sunday, Hangzhou CellGer …

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5 months ago

China to deepen medical, healthcare reform in 2024

China Daily

China has released a list of healthcare reform tasks for 2024, including measures related to public healthcare services, the development of public hospitals and reform in relation to medicine. At a national conference on China's health development and deepening healthcare reform that ended in late June, policymakers and practitioners discussed topics including public hospital reforms, medicine supply and medical insurance. …

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7 months, 1 week ago

AI, biotech seen transforming healthcare

China Daily

An artificial intelligence-aided diagnostic system is displayed during the 2024 China International Medical Equipment Fair in Shanghai in April. New quality productive forces, represented by artificial intelligence and other digital technologies, are shaping China's healthcare sector, likely cultivating the next paradigm shift, industry experts said. Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia, said that with the empowerment of digital …

Healthcare China Medical Development Digital Ai Technologies

7 months, 1 week ago

AI, biotech seen transforming healthcare

China Daily

An artificial intelligence-aided diagnostic system is displayed during the 2024 China International Medical Equipment Fair in Shanghai in April. New quality productive forces, represented by artificial intelligence and other digital technologies, are shaping China's healthcare sector, likely cultivating the next paradigm shift, industry experts said. Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia, said that with the empowerment of digital …

Healthcare China Medical Development Digital Ai Technologies

7 months, 1 week ago

China aims to promote student mental health via educational campaign

China Daily

BEIJING -- China has launched a nationwide campaign to promote awareness and education concerning the mental health of students. The circular requires local education authorities to organize tailored mental health education and guidance initiatives for children and students at different stages of education. Special attention should be paid to the mental health of left-behind children in rural areas whose parents …

Education Mental Health China

7 months, 1 week ago

China establishes expert working group to boost public psychological services

China Daily

BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission has set up a specialized expert working group to support the country's efforts to improve its system of public psychological services. The experts are tasked with evaluating the quality of China's public psychological services and distilling successful experiences from different regions. Additionally, the group will work on developing additional plans, management systems, and evaluation …

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7 months, 1 week ago

China sees increase in registered nurses, totaling 5.63 million

China Daily

China had about 5.63 million registered nurses by the end of 2023, compared with 5.2 million in 2022, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. There were about four nurses per 1,000 people and more than 80 percent of them held junior college degrees or higher, said Xing Ruoqi, deputy director of the commission's department of medical administration, during a …

Nursing Nurses

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ministry picks May as national Mental Health Education Month

China Daily

The Ministry of Education has designated the month of May as the national Mental Health Education Month to help raise awareness about the issue, it announced on Wednesday. Various educational activities will be held during the month, including a lecture that will focus on major mental health problems that students deal with, the ministry said. Wang Jiayi, vice-minister of education, …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

China makes headway in enhancing grassroots medical services

China Daily

BEIJING -- China has worked to bolster its public health care services at various levels, aiming to improve its people's well-being, a senior National Health Commission official said on Tuesday. At a press conference held in Beijing, NHC official Zhu Hongbiao highlighted China's efforts to channel medical resources, including personnel, technology, services and management, into community-level health care institutions, ensuring …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

Medical

7 months, 3 weeks ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

Medical

7 months, 4 weeks ago

China digital reading market flourishes in 2023

China Daily

During the Third National Conference on Reading, the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association unveiled the 2023 China Digital Reading Report, revealing a robust expansion in the nation's digital reading landscape. The report highlighted that the overall revenue of China's digital reading market in 2023 surged to 56.7 billion yuan, marking a substantial 22.33 percent increase year-on-year. The report also …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Stephen Garrett, a 27-year-old graduate student, always thought he would study in China, but the country’s restrictive COVID-19 policies made it nearly impossible and now he sees interest among fellow scholars wane even after China reopened. Without these U.S. students, “in the next decade, we won’t be able to exercise savvy, knowledgeable diplomacy in China,” warned David Moser, …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

China provides medical assistance to 250m people in 2023

China Daily

A medical worker tends a patient at a community clinic in Baiyanglin sub-district in Bijie city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, July 13, 2023. BEIJING - China's healthcare security system provided medical assistance to 250 million patients in 2023, according to the country's National Healthcare Security Administration. The medical assistance program, a key part of China's healthcare security system that …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

New quality productive forces call for meaningful input from political advisers: China Daily editorial

China Daily

This photo taken on Feb 2, 2024 shows a battery production facility in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin province. A resolution on a work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, a resolution on a report on how the proposals from political advisers have been handled since the previous annual session, a report on the examination …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

Medical

11 months, 1 week ago

Education continues strong progress

China Daily

China continued to build a strong education system in 2023, a measure considered a pillar for advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Ministry of Education convened strategic consultation meetings on building a nation with a strong education system across the country, signing strategic cooperation agreements to promote the high-quality development of education. The World Chinese Language Conference …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Chongqing to increase mental health facilities

China Daily

All universities and 95 percent of middle and primary schools in Chongqing will have mental health service centers by 2025 as the southwestern municipality of over 32 million people steps up efforts to improve public mental wellness, according to a recent government plan. The three-year plan says that Chongqing will launch construction of a comprehensive mental health service system to …

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1 year ago

China's respiratory illness surge not as high as pre-pandemic, says WHO official

Firstpost

According to Maria Van Kerkhove, acting director of the WHO’s department of epidemic and pandemic preparation and prevention, the increase seems to be caused by an increase in the number of children catching diseases that they have avoided for the past two years due to COVID limitations A World Health Organisation official has said that although there has been an …

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1 year, 1 month ago

No ‘unusual’ virus behind rising Pneumonia cases China has clarified, reveals WHO

Firstpost

Since mid-October 2023, the World Health Organization has been monitoring data from Chinese surveillance systems showing an increase in respiratory illness in children in northern China China has reiterated that no unusual or new pathogens have been detected in the upsurge in child respiratory illnesses in the north, the WHO said on Thursday after putting pressure on Beijing for detailed …

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1 year, 1 month ago

China's pneumonia scare: Transparency please

Live Mint

China, where covid broke out in November 2019, is in the spotlight again. The World Health Organization has asked the country for details on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children. In a recent statement, the WHO noted an increase in influenza-like ailments compared to the same autumn of the past three years in China’s …

China

1 year, 1 month ago

Spike in illnesses isn’t a new pathogen, China reassures WHO

Salon

An outbreak of respiratory illnesses in China has sparked alarm, but the sudden rise in sickness is not related to a new virus, according to Chinese health authorities. So far, the data suggests that there’s nothing out of the ordinary, but both the WHO and China have been criticized in the past for not being entirely transparent about the COVID-19 …

China Covid

1 year, 1 month ago

WHO asks China to provide information on increase in respiratory illnesses, pneumonia

Op India

The WHO has made an official request to China for detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children in the country. Chinese authorities from the National Health Commission at a press conference on November 13, reported an increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases in China. Chinese authorities attributed this increase to the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

On China pneumonia outbreak, scientists caution to not press ‘pandemic panic button’

Hindustan Times

Leading scientists urged caution over fears of another pandemic on Thursday after the World Health Organization requested more information from China on a rise of respiratory illnesses and pneumonia clusters among children. The standard wording of the alert echoed the first-ever notice about what would become COVID-19, sent on Dec. 30 2019: "Undiagnosed pneumonia - China." "I am not going …

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China ramps up public health literacy with three-year campaign

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