Beijing Review – August 15, 2019

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THIS WEEK

“The country should continuously

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and promote opening up, and hold a

steady stance while responding to

the constant changes in the U.S.”

Wang Yiming, Vice President of the State

Council’s Development Research Center, saying

China needs to make full preparations to deal with

an uneasy relationship with the U.S. in the long

term on August 7

“The integration with other industries

will create significant space for growth

for the digital culture sector. The market

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($11.43 trillion).”

Cheng Wu, Vice President of Tencent, expecting

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development of cultural products and services

on August 5

Providing for Seniors

Beijing Youth Daily

August 5

The Healthy China Initiative Promotion Committee held a press conference recently where

it pointed out that the average life expectancy of Chinese people in 2018 was 77. However,

the healthy life expectancy was only 68.7, which means that people live with illness for up to

8.3 years.

By the end of 2018, the number of people aged over 60 in China had reached 249 million,

with more than 40 million disabled or semi-disabled, accounting for 18.3 percent of the total.

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and integration of human and ecological society, as well as an important criterion to measure

the level of a society’s civilization.

China’s basic pension system is established and has achieved full coverage. Still, in order

to improve its quality, it is essential to meet seniors’ needs for medical treatment and recuper-

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the nursing care provided by society has become an indispensable way of solving this severe

problem.

However, although there are now 4 million registered nurses in China, there are not

enough with experience and professional titles to take care of the elderly in their spare time. It

the State Council and the Communist is necessary to train a large number of nurses according to the needs of society.

Party of China Central Committee. In

2018, President Xi Jinping visited the

northeast and made arrangements for its

all-around revitalization. Since then, the

region has deepened reform and opening

up and achieved recovery through tena-

cious efforts.

However, revitalization can’t be

accomplished in one stroke. It’s still neces-

sary for the region to promote the reform

of state-owned enterprises, strengthen

supervision of state-owned resources,

make up the deficiency in development,

prevent secondary risks, optimize the mar-

ket environment and a service-oriented

government and emancipate the mind

continuously to make gains with a high

sense of responsibility and initiative.

Zheng Saisai, a Chinese tennis player, claimed her first Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)

singles title at the San Jose Open on August 4. She shocked world ranked No.10 and No.2 seed

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Zheng, who was ranked 55th in the world, is China’s third-ranked tennis player. Her

winning propelled her to No.38. She also was the second Chinese win-

ner of a top WTA singles title after Li Na in 2011.

Zheng, who was born in 1994 in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi

Province, started playing tennis when she was 8.

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eryone is different, and rankings can’t tell you how strong a player can be

because everyone can win if they play well,” the Chinese rising star said.

Previously, she teamed up with former No.1 player Victoria

Azarenka of Belarus and won the WTA Mexico Open women’s dou-

bles title in March.

A RISING WTA STAR