Xi Jinping invited Professor Chen Lai to give a lecture, on December 30, 2015, to a Politburo study group.  Chen received the “2015 Confucius Culture Award,” and is a professor of philosophy at Tsinghua University. He serves as Dean of the Academy of Chinese Learning at the university. 

China faces a shortage of pediatricians. With the launch of the new two-child policy which is replacing the one-child policy, Chinese parents are wondering where they will find pediatricians for their children.

In 2012, there was only 0.43 pediatric specialists for each 1000 children in China, or only 96, 000 pediatricians for the 220 million Chinese children who were less than 14 years old. By comparison, in the United States, the ratio is 1.46 pediatricians for every 1000 children. Because of the shortage of pediatricians, many Chinese hospitals have had to shut down their pediatric departments. As China has just replaced its one-child policy with the two-child policy, the expected dramatic increase in births will make the pediatrician shortage even more severe.

Because they have longer working hours and a higher work load, pediatricians encounter more medical disputes with parents. In addition, pediatricians earn less income compared to doctors in other fields because children need smaller dosages of medication. (Editor’s note: The Chinese regime encourages doctors and hospitals to sell extra prescriptive drugs to patients. Whether the patients need so much medication or not, the doctors in China prescribe an abundance of expensive drugs for them. It is a secret rule in China, which is, nevertheless, fairly well known to “Use drugs to get income for doctors.”)

Source: Xinhua, January 16, 2016
http://www.sn.xinhuanet.com/society/2016-01/16/c_1117796882.htm

China faces a shortage of pediatricians. With the launch of the new two-child policy which is replacing the one-child policy, Chinese parents are wondering where they will find pediatricians for their children. 

In 2012, there were only 0.43 pediatric specialists for each 1,000 children in China, or only 96, 000 pediatricians for the 220 million Chinese children who were less than 14 years old. By comparison, in the United States, the ratio is 1.46 pediatricians for every 1,000 children. Because of the shortage of pediatricians, many Chinese hospitals have had to shut down their pediatric departments. As China has just replaced its one-child policy with the two-child policy, the expected dramatic increase in births will make the pediatrician shortage even more severe. 

Because they have longer working hours and have a higher work load, pediatricians encounter more medical disputes with parents. In addition, pediatricians earn less income compared to doctors in other fields because children need smaller doses of medication. [Editor’s note: The Chinese regime encourages doctors and hospitals to sell extra prescriptive drugs to patients. The doctors prescribe an abundance of expensive drugs whether their patients need them or not. It is a secret rule in China, which is, nevertheless, fairly well known to, “Use drugs to get income for doctors.”] 

Source: Xinhua, January 16, 2016
http://www.sn.xinhuanet.com/society/2016-01/16/c_1117796882.htm

Xiake_Island is an account that People’s Daily (Overseas Edition) uses for microblogging. It recently published an article commenting on the official report of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Central Commission on Disciplinary Inspection (CCDI). The commentary was titled, "Who Was the ‘Significant Potential Political Danger in the Party’ That the CCDI Eliminated?"

The article emphasized that the report made a statement that the CCDI had never used before, "The investigation of Zhou Yongkang and Ling Jihua ‘has eliminated a significant potential political danger in the Party.’ … It is very rare to link a ‘significant potential political danger’ to individuals. … The reason it made this statement is that Xi Jinping said that (this group) ‘had political ambitions; out of their personal interests or the interests of a small group, they initiated a political conspiracy and conducted actions that damaged and separated the Party.’"

The article also said that, compared to the reports from previous years and Xi Jinping’s early speeches, one could tell that Xi felt there had been a significant status change in the anti-corruption campaign. It changed from what had previously been described as "severe and complicated" to the current situation of "an overwhelming form of suppression (of corrupt officials) is taking shape." Still, the anti-corruption campaign is "long-term," "tough," and "always ongoing."

"What is the ‘overwhelming form of suppression’? In Xiake_island‘s view, the balance between the two forces that support and resist anti-corruption has changed. The resisting force has been or is being eliminated, or at least does not have much power to fight back anymore. The anti-corruption move is no longer reversible."

Source: People’s Daily (Overseas Edition) Online, January 15, 2016
http://opinion.haiwainet.cn/n/2016/0115/c456317-29553991.html