A school gymnasium roof collapsed and killed 11 people in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province on July 23, 2023. Four others were injured. Local media reported that the girls’ volleyball team was practising inside the building at the time of the accident. Construction
the latest of which was released in May 2023. In early 2022, RSF also published a report called “The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China,” an ironic reference to Mao’s Great Leap Forward that, in 1958–1962, eventually led to massive starvation and millions of deaths.
— Read on globalvoices.org/2023/07/24/the-great-leap-backwards-of-media-in-china/
China is predicted to have 400 million retirees in 2035 – the same year the state pension fund is expected to run out. In this episode, Jasmine Tse analyses the central government’s race to prepare the nation’s finances, infrastructure and health system. Global health policy expert Professor Winnie Yip unpacks the challenges ahead, explains why robots or immigrants won’t fix them, and reveals a shift in China’s culture of filial piety and caring for the elderly. 预计到 2035 年,中国将有 4 亿退休人员,同年国家养老基金预计将耗尽。 在本集中,谢茉莉分析了中央政府为国家财政、基础设施和卫生系统做好准备的竞赛。 全球卫生政策专家Winnie Yip教授揭示了未来的挑战,解释了为什么机器人或移民无法解决这些问题,并揭示了中国孝道和照顾老年人文化的转变。
China’s Aging Population Is a Major Threat to Its Future
An unusually public claim by a Chinese professor the country’s youth jobless rate might have hit close to 50% in March has stoked a debate about official data and a soft labour market, despite curbs on negative portrayals of the economy. 一位中国教授不同寻常地公开声称,该国的青年失业率在3月份可能已达到近50%,这引发了一场关于官方数据和疲软劳动力市场的辩论,尽管对经济的负面描绘有所限制。
The World Health Organisation has said China has not given a full account of how many of its 1.4 billion population succumbed to the disease after it abruptly abandoned strict COVID curbs in December last year.
China said around 80,000 people died from COVID in hospitals across the country in the first two months after curbs were lifted, a period where funeral parlours said they were inundated and long lines of hearses queued outside crematoriums.
Some epidemiologists at the time estimated as many as 2 million people may die from the virus in China.
The province’s data, which did not state the cause of death, has since been taken down. Data for the fourth quarter was also not available. China’s ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.
Both the Zhejiang provincial government and the ministry of civil affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
During the first three years since late 2019 when the pandemic broke out, China had kept the virus largely in check by adopting a strict “zero-COVID” policy of harsh lockdowns and mass testing.
But towards the end of 2022, the policy started failing as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread rampantly and local governments struggled to cough up money and manpower to enforce the curbs.
China abruptly changed tack in December 2022 after protests in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities against the curbs.
In January, a government scientist estimated that 80% of China’s 1.4 billion people had become infected.
There were 171,000 cremations registered in the eastern province of Zhejiang in the first quarter, well above the 99,000 in the same period in year before, Chinese financial media outlet Caixin reported, citing official data released by the province. The official statement was later removed from the internet, according to Caixin.
[…] However, that number was widely seen as an underestimate because the government narrowed the criteria for classifying deaths caused by Covid-19 late last year. An estimate in January by Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the department of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, put the number of deaths at about 900,000 in those five weeks.
[…] Although Zhejiang province deleted the first quarter data from its website, Caixin cited an unnamed local government official as saying that “some” of the deleted data was accurate and that cremations increased mainly because of the coronavirus. [Source]
If China just reported how many people died I'm quite sure they would look pretty good compared to most countries. The secrecy/patently absurd numbers are a real own goal, sowed so much distrust https://t.co/nPhxd8lonX
— @elifriedman.bsky.social (@EliDFriedman) July 18, 2023
Cremations in the Chinese province of Zhejiang rose more than 70% year-on-year in the first quarter, government data showed, an unexplained jump that occurred as a COVID outbreak swept the country.
About 171,000 cremations were registered in Zhejiang – home to around 5% of China’s population – in the first three months of 2023, up from 99,000 in the same period last year, according to data on the province’s civil affairs bureau website.
The World Health Organisation has said China has not given a full account of how many of its 1.4 billion population succumbed to the disease after it abruptly abandoned strict COVID curbs in December last year.
China said around 80,000 people died from COVID in hospitals across the country in the first two months after curbs were lifted, a period where funeral parlours said they were inundated and long lines of hearses queued outside crematoriums.
Some epidemiologists at the time estimated as many as 2 million people may die from the virus in China.
The province’s data, which did not state the cause of death, has since been taken down. Data for the fourth quarter was also not available. China’s ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.
这对只是将锡那罗亚卡特尔与中国公司和犯罪组织联系起来的链条中的两个环节,经过执法部门多年的调查,这些关系现在正越来越受到美国政府的关注。 The pair are just two links in a chain connecting the Sinaloa cartel to Chinese companies and criminal organizations, relationships that are now drawing increasing attention from the US government after years of investigation by law enforcement.
Seven years after the historic ruling, Manila comes out with a ‘central resource’ – containing submissions, transcripts, and mementos – documenting its win against China before the Permanent Court of Arbitration 在历史性裁决七年后,马尼拉拿出了一个“中心资源”——包含提交的材料、成绩单和纪念品——记录了其在常设仲裁法院对中国的胜利
— Read on www.rappler.com/nation/dfa-microsite-philippines-arbitral-tribunal-win-vs-china/
the former head of China’s Centers for Disease Control said he couldn’t dismiss the possibility that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak, BBC reported Tuesday. 据英国广播公司 (BBC) 周二报道,中国疾病预防控制中心前负责人表示,他不能排除 Covid-19 大流行是由实验室泄漏引起的可能性。
President Joe Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator, soon after Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his first official visit to Beijing. 在国务卿安东尼·布林肯结束对北京的首次正式访问后不久,乔·拜登总统称中国领导人习近平为独裁者。
The intelligence agency said many Dutch companies and institutions find it difficult to make a proper risk assessment of economic and scientific cooperation with China.
“The country often conceals that the Chinese government or the Chinese army may be involved in such cooperation in the background,” said the report. “The disadvantages of cooperation often only become apparent in the longer term.”
It also said that China targets Dutch high-tech companies and institutions through “corporate takeovers, academic cooperation, as well as illegitimate (digital) espionage, insiders, covert investments and illegal exports”.
Yes, It is True as Like the other Made in China Proeducts. Covered by China’s paiting but all major components comes from outside of country. Look, Chinese. They are falling in Love with their “China home made comercial Jet”
Yes. This is the stereotype of CCP’s propaganda to it’s brainwashed peoples.