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Police officers present flowers and birthday gifts to 109-year-old Luo Wushi on Tuesday. Luo lives in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, and receives a monthly subsidy from the government. (Source: China Daily)

In an attempt to improve the welfare of China\’s rapidly aging population, the government is now paying monthly subsidies to 8 million of the nation\’s 19 million people above the age of 80, Li Liguo, the minister of civil affairs, announced on Monday.

The subsidies are in place in 14 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions – up from the six participating when the subsidies were introduced last year, said Li during a conference in Hohhot, the capital of North China\’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

He said the ministry plans to continue to roll out the program during the coming five years.

The country has an aging population and about 13.6 percent of its population – 178 million people – are older than 60.

In Beijing, subsidies are only handed out to people who are older than 90. Those aged between 90 and 99 receive 100 yuan ($15.50) a month, while those over 100 get 200 yuan. The subsidies are paid into people\’s bank accounts.

\”The subsidies are actually quite small when you consider that the cost of living is so high in cities like Beijing,\” said Zhai Zhijia, a social worker from the community service center in Beijing\’s Yulinxili community. \”But the government\’s move makes the old people feel they are being cared for.\”

There are five people who are older than 90 in Zhai\’s community and she visits each of them every three months to check on their health and living conditions.

Fang Jiake, deputy head of the Tianjin-based Hetong Senior Citizens Welfare Association, said he would like to see the government provide financial support to elderly people based on their health and income, instead of their age.

\”It\’s more important to offer subsidies to those who have lost the ability to live independently and who are struggling in poverty,\” Fang said.

China has also tried to build a more inclusive welfare system for minors and especial its orphans.

An inclusive welfare system for children without parents was introduced in 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions at the end of June.

Under that system, each institutionalized orphan receives a monthly allowance of 1,000 yuan while those living outside orphanages will get 600 yuan.

A national database containing information about orphans who are younger than 18 was established in March.

The nation is thought to be home to about 712,000 orphaned children.

The database will help facilitate the distribution of monthly government subsidies and monitor welfare services for the vulnerable group.

By the end of June, information about 240,000 orphans had been recorded, including their age, gender, photos and their guardians\’ information, Li said at the conference.

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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Judging from what we have heard from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) may be correct in claiming that the scope and impacts of the spill at Penglai 19-3 oilfield in the Bohai Sea are incomparable with the notorious Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster, yet they appear much bigger than it claimed.

A spill of 2,000 square meters, which is the size the CNOOC previously said, is in stark contrast with media reports of one that is \”3 kilometers long and 20 to 30 meters wide\”, or the SOA\’s official account of 840 sq km of seriously polluted sea water.

We would like to believe the SOA assurance that the spill is now under \”effective control\”. However, its concurrent confession of \”minor leakage\” at drilling platforms B and C sets us wondering to what extent the control is effective.

Perhaps we should demonstrate more patience and allow more time for a thorough and reliable conclusion about the cause and effect of the accident. But the approach of the CNOOC, who owns and operates the structures with an American partner, to a matter of serious public concern is inappropriate. Perhaps from CNOOC\’s perspective, telling the public what happened, as well as what has been, is being, and will be done to stop the leaks might be too technical for a lay audience, and is thus of little help. But that is no excuse to brush aside the concerns that have been aired.

For one thing, as a listed company, the CNOOC has an obligation to share information. At the very least, shareholders should not be kept in the dark. The CNOOC as a State firm has a special duty and obligation to protect national and public interests, in addition to its normal corporate responsibilities.

The oil spill in the Bohai waters constitutes a clear and present environmental hazard with unfathomable consequences. As an internal sea, the already seriously contaminated Bohai Sea\’s self-cleaning capabilities are very weak.

If there has been any exaggeration of the impacts, it is primarily an outcome of the CNOOC\’s reluctance to share, if not withholding, information. There was a two-week time lag between media exposure of the spill and the CNOOC\’s confirmation. The obvious contradiction between its initial denial and media disclosures guaranteed that people would speculate.

The SOA said all three provinces and one municipality along the Bohai Bay were informed of the accident in a timely manner. But previous media reports quoted at least one local government as saying they had received no notice.

Besides clearing the current spill and public relations debris, the ambitious maritime oil driller must reflect on its safety guarantee mechanisms and take proper precautions to make sure something like this does not happen again.

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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Part of a bridge in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, remains while another section has been washed out by mudslides triggered by torrential rain. Many people were trapped on the bridge on Monday. (Xinhua Photo)

Rescuers have been battling to help people affected by mudslides brought about by intense rain in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, but officials and locals said on Tuesday that the situation on the ground still depends on the weather and whether they get more rain.

The affected area surrounds one of the towns that was hardest hit by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in 2008.

Statistics show Yingxiu has received 384.2 millimeters of rain since June 30, with much of it having fallen since Sunday.

Mudslides into the Yuzixi River, which flows through Yingxiu, raised the riverbed by between 3 and 5 meters and continuing rain has brought down more and more slides of mud and rock.

So far, no casualties have been reported. However, locals are worried that the river will become blocked and flood the town, according to Wenchuan county\’s meteorological bureau.

Downstream, 30 meters of riverbank has been washed away.

A team of more than 300 people arrived on Monday with at least 60 pieces of heavy equipment and began to remove debris from the river and repair broken riverbanks with huge rocks wrapped in steel nets. They said on Tuesday the reconstruction of the riverbanks was almost complete.

Zhang Tongrong, the county chief of Wenchuan, told China Daily many of the problems were under control on Tuesday and said the situation was improving.

However, lingering heavy rain has hampered the work.

Wang Qiang, program manager at Qitian Construction Company, said heavy rain on Monday added more debris to the riverbed and increased the water volume, making it impossible for some machines to work.

He said the situation improved on Tuesday and predicted work could be over in three days if the weather holds out.

People living close to the river have been packed and ready for a possible evacuation to an emergency shelter.

Yun Yuming, 39, said it will hurt him and his family if they lose their house again after it was destroyed in the 2008 earthquake.

Wang Lei, manager of Yingxiu-Wenchuan Highway Administration Company, said the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in 2008 was likely responsible for the recent mudslides.

\”The earthquake in 2008 destroyed the integrity of the surface, making it much easier for the rain to flush away earth and rocks,\” Wang said.

His view was repeated by Ma Dongtao, an expert on earthquake aftermath prevention at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Ma predicted that the mudslides and landslides in Wenchuan are just the beginning of a phase that could last for 100 years.

\”Landslide prevention work will be the most important issue in dealing with the aftermath,\” the Shanghai Morning Post quoted Ma as saying.

It was not the first time that Wenchuan has been hit by mudslides and floods. In August last year, the town suffered 16 mudslides, which forced the Minjiang River to divert and flooded Yingxiu, leaving 41 people missing and 30,000 others affected.

Highway cut off

Meanwhile, National Highway 213 between Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, and Wenchuan was severed for a second time in three days because of mudslides. At least four sections of the highway have been obstructed by the slides.

The Minjiang River changed its course on Sunday and cut through the highway and several hundred meters of road was washed away.

The problems trapped more than 7,000 vehicles and 30,000 people and led to more than 6,000 vehicles retracing their routes and getting out of the area.

Restoration work on the road could take 10 days, according to the local traffic authority.

Falling mud and rocks from the mountains severed the link between Wenchuan and the outside world on July 1 and construction workers rushed to reopen the highway the next day.

National Highway 213, which links Sichuan with the provinces of Gansu to the north and Yunnan to the south, was referred to as a \”lifeline\” by rescue workers after the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

[i] Li Yu and Huang Zhiling contributed to this story.[/i]

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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Fudan University has handed a dossier of dirty tricks by a rival Shanghai university to \”educational authorities,\” a spokesman announced on Shanghai Television on Monday.

\”Fudan will leave it to the authorities to decide,\” Fudan spokesman Fang Ming said on Tuesday.

The spat between the rival universities kicked off on Friday with an announcement on the official Fudan microblog on sina.com warning excellent out-of-town candidates against being duped by \”some Shanghai university\” into giving up applying to Fudan.

Forwarded online several thousand times, the message was deleted as of on Tuesday.

In the announcement, Fudan alleged admissions staff working for an unnamed university in southwest Shanghai had been giving false information to undergraduate candidates that their preadmission agreements with Fudan had been cancelled, advising them to apply elsewhere. The message was \”fraudulent\” and hurt the interests of students.

Internet users immediately surmised the fraudsters as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, who in return wrote four messages a day on Sina Weibo refuting the accusation as \”unfounded.\”

\”No one in our university\’s admission office has ever impersonated another university\’s staff to tell students that their admission agreements with that university were cancelled,\” Jiao Tong announced on its official website and official microblog on Saturday.

The accusation was \”a vicious defamation\” of Jiao Tong and such behavior was unacceptable, it stated. The four messages were also deleted by the university as of on Tuesday.

Fudan had deleted its Weibo messages itself, spokesman Fang told the Global Times.

\”The announcement was just a warning to that university as well as to our candidates that such behavior would seriously affect our enrolled student quality,\” he told the Global Times in a previous interview.

The university had been alerted to the scam by candidates, he explained.

\”Such cases occurred last year, but it was very rare,\” he said. \”However, the number of cases has soared this year.\”

The phenomenon has existed for years, Xiong Bingqi, a Jiao Tong University researcher into China\’s higher education system, told the Global Times.

\”It won\’t stop happening in the future if no measures are taken to tackle the existing problem in the university recruitment system,\” Xiong said.

\”It appears that the fighting between the two top universities has stopped. But it was achieved through administrative means. The problem still exists.\”

[i]Source: Global Times[/i]

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The woman whose efforts cushioned the fall of a two-year-old girl who plummeted 10 floors from an apartment has been hailed the \”most beautiful mother\” by China\’s netizens.

The toddler, nicknamed Niu Niu, fell around midday Saturday after being left unattended at home in east China\’s Zhejiang Province.

Thirty-one year old Wu Juping, herself the mother of a seven-month-old child, reached the falling child in time to break the toddler\’s fall, preventing the girl from hitting the ground at full force.

Wu is now recovering from a broken arm in a hospital that specializes in treating fractures in Fuyang, a city near the provincial capital of Hangzhou.

Wu\’s heroic action has been detailed on popular micro-blogging websites. Thousands of Internet users expressed their appreciation of Wu.

\”In dynamic terms it would be impossible to catch the child, but in a world with love, everything is possible,\” said a micro-blog user with the screen name of \”pamphlet.\”

Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba Group, the company where Wu works, also called Wu a \”heroine\” in his micro-blog, and the company declared that it would give Wu 200,000 yuan (30,940 U. S. dollars) as an award for her good deed.

Jin Dengfeng, doctor in charge of Wu\’s treatment said, since Wu\’s left arm is suffering from a severe fracture, her forearm could at worst be paralyzed for life.

With a smile on her face, Wu said, \”A child is of great importance for the happiness of a whole family. For me, any price is worth paying as long as the child could be saved.\”

However, Niu Niu is still in critical condition after two days of treatment in Zhejaing Children\’s Hospital.

The girl who suffered from internal bleeding after hitting the ground, is in a deep coma.

\”Almost all her internal organs are injured, and she is suffering severe concussion,\” said Zhang Chenmei, Niu Niu\’s doctor.

Zhang is not optimistic. \”Whether Niu Niu can finally survive is still unknown,\” she said.

The story has been forwarded by more than 100,000 Chinese micro-blog users as of Monday afternoon. Many people posted online prays for Wu and the child to recover soon.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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Police in east China\’s Nanjing city are pursuing two runaway suspects who allegedly robbed a woman of a huge amount of money, local police said Wednesday.

The robbery happened at about 9 a.m. outside a branch of China Merchants Bank in Gulou district in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province.

The female citizen, whose identity was not disclosed, was tailed and robbed by the two suspects after she withdrew 500,000 yuan (77,000 U.S. dollars) in cash from the bank, according to the police.

The two suspects threw away the bag with the money and fled after the female and other citizens staged an immediate chasing.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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Chinese Minister of Civil Affairs Li Liguo said Monday the country\’s old-age subsidies system has expanded to 14 provincial-level regions, benefitting 8 million citizens aged above 80.

Last year only six provincial-level regions introduced the system, said Li, while addressing a civil affairs work meeting held in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Li said the ministry will continue to push other provincial-level regions to establish such system, so as to better support aged residents to meet their daily needs.

According to officials, China currently has a total of 18.99 million residents aged above 80 years old.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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China has 7.34 million hectares of \”reserve land\” that can be developed into arable land, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a research report published Monday.

The reserve land mainly lies in dry areas in the northern and western parts of the country, according to the report.

But Yan Zhiyao, head of the arable land protection department of the ministry, said it would be a mistake for China to rely on large-scale development of the reserve land.

China should improve the quality of arable land rather than increase the quantity, he said.

To ensure grain security, China has set a \”red line\” to guarantee its arable land never falls below 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares). China is edging close to the \”red line,\” with just 1.826 billion mu available, government data showed in February.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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Charitable non-government organizations (NGOs) will have an easier time registering with Chinese municipal governments with the arrival of new regulations, an official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Wednesday.

Charity and social welfare NGOs in Beijing, east China\’s Anhui Province and the southern city of Shenzhen will be able to directly register with civil affairs bureaus in those areas, the official said.

Current regulations concerning NGO registration stipulate that social groups, foundations and non-profit organizations must receive permission from relevant government departments or public institutions before applying for registration at civil affairs bureaus.

However, the official said it is sometimes difficult for charity NGOs to find appropriate supervisors, as some of their operations run across multiple sectors, the official said.

Minister of Civil Affairs Li Liguo said in March that the government should \”carefully cultivate\” outstanding philanthropic organizations in order to alleviate poverty and other social ills.

Chinese NGOs have developed rapidly in recent years, especially after the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. However, the difficulty of registering these organizations has long been an area of complaint.

The One Foundation, which was founded by Hong Kong movie star Jet Li, ended its cooperation with the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) and announced the establishment of an independent public fundraising foundation in Shenzhen in January.

This was the first case in which a non-governmental foundation affiliated with a government-run organization has been successfully been transformed into a public fundraising organization. Shenzhen city authorities directly approved the One Foundation\’s relocation without having to get a permit from its supervisor.

The One Foundation was originally supervised by the RCSC, which also supervises another 40 similar organizations. Jet Li has previously complained that the One Foundation has had little say in deciding how the money it has raised ends up being used.

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A coal mine fire that occurred Wednesday night left at least 36 people trapped underground in east China\’s Shandong Province, according to State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) early Thursday.

An air compression device at a parking lot 225 meters underground caught fire around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, trapping 36 miners working in the area, according to initial investigation.

The mine belongs to Zaozhuang Fangbei Coal Mine Co. Ltd. in Shangdong Province.

An experts team headed by SAWS director Luo Lin rushed to the scene immediately. Rescue operation is going on.

The licensed coal mine is a low gas mine. It had completed technical revamp in June 2010 to expand production capacity to 150,000 tonnes a year. The work passed check of approval in October the same year.

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