The Department of Health in Jiangxi Province confirmed that a 73 year old woman died of H10N8 avian flu on December 6, 2013.
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Media Survey Showed Most People Used “Exhausted” to Describe Their Feelings during 2013
Guangming Daily reported that, in November 2013, Insight China magazine and the Media Survey Lab of Tsinghua University conducted a survey in which 2013 Chinese people participated. The survey results showed that most people had mixed feelings about their lives in 2013. The description that was used most to describe their feelings durig 2013 was that they were exhausted both physically and mentally.
The article quoted Fu Chunsheng, the Principal of Beijing Boai Psychological Medical Research Institute on why Chinese people felt exhausted. According to Fu, feeling exhausted is a reflection of people’s lack of a personal value system in their lives. Therefore, they tend to lack a goal in life; they do not know who they are or why they are busy with life. Another reason is that people often felt insecure due to the uncertainties in their lives: they were unable to afford a car or housing and were therefore unable to get married. In addition to feeling exhausted, people also used “uninterested,” “good,” “busy,” and “irritated” to describe their feelings.
Source: Guangming Daily, December 6, 2013
http://life.gmw.cn/2013-12/06/content_9724288_2.htm
Over 1/5 of the Working Population in China Stopped Paying into Social Security for Their Retirement
On December 2, 2013, China Review News published an article on China’s social security problem. Based on data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China, 23 percent of the working people in China no longer pay anything into social security for their future retirement. According to China’s official data, 38 million of about 300 million Chinese who have participated in China’s basic pension insurance for urban employees stopped paying their fees in 2013. The article gave a number of possible reasons behind this trend of leaving the government’s social security system.
Source: China Review News Agency, December 2, 2013
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Xinhua Comments on Explosions in Taiyuan
On November 7, Xinhua published a commentary on the multiple explosions that took place in front of the Provincial Communist Party building in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province.
Series of Fabricated Bomb Threats to Mainland Airliners Made the Authorities Very Nervous
China Gate republished an article originally from the Central News Agency, the state news agency of the Republic of China (http://www.cna.com.tw/) about a recent series of fabricated bomb threats that targeted mainland airlines.
On October 31, 2013, at least four different airlines had flights, either to or from Changsha City in Hunan Province, that received bomb threats. The threats disrupted China’s flights and caused chaos at the airports. According to the article, as China’s ruling Communist Party will hold the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee soon (on Nov. 9-12 in Beijing), these ardent bomb threats to the airlines have made the Chinese authorities very nervous.
Source: Central News Agency, November 1, 2013
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2013/11/01/2759992.html
Beijing to Include Counter Terrorism and Anti-Violence in Public Stability Work
Following the October 28 incident in Beijing in which a car crashed into a crowd in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square causing five deaths and dozens of injuries, Guo Jinlong, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, issued a directive that counter terrorism and anti-violence measures are to be included in the city’s public stability work. According to Guo, the effort will focus on the development of public safety measures in strategic key locations and improve the early warning ability of the city’s management system, especially in its data collection on the mobile population living in leased apartments and hotels.
Source: Xinhua, November 3, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-11/03/c_117979881.htm