Scientific Growth

As one of the world’s largest grain consumers,food security has always been a major concern for the Chinese nation.China must confront the challenge of feeding a fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the planet’s arable land. In 2011,China’s grain output recorded growth for the eighth successive year,and total production reached an all-time high of 571 million tons. In terms of food security,China’s goal is to maintain a self-sufficiency rate of above 95 percent.However,an annual net population growth of 7.39 million and the effective decline of the area of farmland     

Society

正China’s Energy Consumption Growth Slows Down The 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy shows that in 2013 China led the world in energy consumption.China used 22.4 percent of the world total,growing by4.7 percent,well below the 8.6percent average of the past decade.Meanwhile,China is also the world’s largest energy producer,providing 18.9 percent of global supply.Its No.1energy source is coal,which accounts for 47.4 percent of the global output.In line with the dip in consumption growth,growth in China’s energy production also fell to2.3 percent last year,far below the 7.4 percent average over the past 10 years.     

SHOULDERING RESPONSIBILITY

<正>China emerges as a major contributor to global economy and governance From the macro perspective of economic size and growth speed,China is the world’s second largest economy,with its GDP growing 6.7 percent and reaching $11 tril ion last year.It contributed more than 34 percent to the world’s gross value added in     

Reforms Prop up Growth

<正>China’s economy grew 6.9 percent in the first half of 2017.This figure somewhat reduces the worry that China’s economic slowdown will cast a shadow over the world economy.In the past two years,the rhetoric about the collapse of China’s economy has continued to resurge from time to time.However,the economic growth of the past one and a half years shows a steady and upbeat momentum.     

Focus

Most Depressives Untreated The Chinese Psychiatrist Association under the Chinese Medical Doctor Association says less than 10 percent of China’s 30 million clinically depressed have access to professional help. Statistics show that China has a total of 17,000 registered psychiatrists–about one for every 100,000 patients. The ratio in developed countries, however, is 1:10,000. China needs to train and register another 113,000 psychiatrists in order to achieve the developed mean ratio.     

Culture Refines a City’s Style

In the past decade,the proportion of China’s urban population has increased 3.2 percent annually,giving it the fastest urbanization rate in the world. Of the global cities whose population exceeds 500,000,236 of them,or one quarter of the world’s stock,are in China. Construction projects in cities are reducing the architectural remnants of their traditional culture. The impulses that drive urbanization and modernization seem to contradict the values associated with cultural preservation. What is China’s approach to this dilemma? With this question China Today interviewed Lü Pintian,a researcher with the Chinese National Academy of Arts and a member of the National Experts Committee for Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage. As a veteran scholar on Chinese culture and arts,Lü Pintian champions mastery of all forms of cultural expression,believing the arts to be the touchstone of social culture and ecological balance. He advocates "reinvigorating handicrafts and activating folklore" as basic tactics for protecting China’s intangible cultural heritage. His academic works have won much acclaim.     

A Magnet for Fortune

Southwest China’s Chengdu,capital of Sichuan Province,is famous for being the hometown of the panda.But it’s rarely known that one out of every two computer chips in the world is made in the city,and over 70 percent of iPads are assembled there.     

China and Africa Cooperate in Petroleum Industry

正AFRICA is rich in oil resources.In 2014,Africa’s proven reserves were estimated at 132.1billion barrels,more than North America and the Asia-Pacific combined.The three most oil-abundant countries on the continent are Libya(46.4 billion barrels,3.4 percent of world total),Nigeria(37.2 billion barrels,2.7 percent of world total)and Angola(13.5 billion barrels,one percent of world total).Africa’s oil output is rising due to new technology and exploration.It is estimated that proven oil reserves will grow by 15 billion barrels in the next     

Prosperity And Peace

<正>Wisdom pooled to integrate China’s initiative for development with a pan-Asia security mechanism For all intents and purposes,the 21st century should be a golden age for Asia.Home to 67 percent of the world’s population,Asia presently accounts for one third of the global economy.However,the present security situation in Asia is unstable,compared     

Community Care for Seniors

COUNTED as a separate country, China’s 200 million elderly (over 60), at one seventh of its total population, would be the fifth largest in the world. China has seen the world’s fastest growing population of over 60s since 1980, with an annual increase of 3 percent. The number of octogenarians and above has been growing even faster, registering yearly growth of 5.4 percent. But herein lies a problem.     

Exchanges

7.8Percent Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China’s GDP grew by 7.8 percent in 2012. Although the growth rate is lower than that of 2011, it is still the highest among leading world economies and China’s contribution to the world’s economic development is increasing. According to the latest forecast by the IMF, the global     

Cities Enter New Stage

正Urban centers shift gears to be more people-and eco-friendly Never before has any other country in the world experienced such a large-scale and rapid urbanization drive as the one that is ongoing in China.Fueled by rapid economic growth,the country’s urbanization rate soared from under 20 percent more than a decade ago     

China’s Industrial Future

China’s economic statistics released in recent months imply that its economic slowdown may deepen. Three figures in particular are of concern to economists;those showing drops in growth of industrial value-added output, in the money supply,and in power generation. The growth of industrial value-added output is at a three-year low, having increased only 9.3 percent over a year. The narrow measure of money supply’s (M1) 3.1 percent year-on-year growth marks a record low, while the miniscule 0.7 percent growth of total power generation signals a scaling back of the country’s industrial activities.In a meeting at the end of May, Chinese     

China Can Maintain Its Economic Growth

正EARLIER this year sections of the Western media tried to spin a story that the world economy was experiencing"severe slowdown in China"and"strong recovery in the U.S."In other words,China’s economy was allegedly in trouble and the U.S.was doing well.Now that the factual data is in for the fi rst half of the year it shows the opposite was true.China’s economic growth was 7.5 percent to the second quarter of 2014;that of the U.S.was 2.4 percent.China’s economy thus grew more than three times as fast as the U.S.’s.Still more signifi cantly for the U.S.,its own statistical agencies and the IMF have offi cially revised their projections for long-term U.S.growth.Both now estimate it at     

Migratory Manufacturers： Foreign Enterprises Relocate to Southeast Asia

DURING its momentous economic expansion, China quickly became one of the largest manufacturing countries in the world and was often referred to as the world’s factory. It attracted a huge amount of foreign investment and the "Made in China" tag became ubiquitous. In recent years China’s position in the world economy has changed further, and the country     

China and Africa ;ooperate in Petroleum Industry

AFRICA is rich in oil resources. In 2014, Africa＇s proven reserves were estimated at 132.1 billion barrels, more than North America and the Asia-Pacific combined. The three most oil-abundant countries on the continent are Libya （46.4 billion barrels, 3.4 percent of world total）, Nigeria （37.2 billion barrels, 2.7 percent of world total） and Angola （13.5 billion barrels, one percent of world total）. Africa＇s oil output is rising due to new technology and exploration. It is estimated that proven oil reserves will grow by 15 billion barrels in the next five years, eventually accounting for one quarter of all oil outside the Gulf area.     

Maintaining Confidence in China’s Economy

正China’s economy has undergone a profound restructuring since 2011,and its double-digit growth speed has gradually slowed down to 7percent or so.Such a shift in gears has stoked rumors that the country is headed toward a hard landing or even that the world’s largest developing economy is about to collapse. In fact,misunderstandings,doubts and even curses against China’s economy have been unceasing ever since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949,especially in tough     

Hot on the Tracks

Breast cancer has become the top killer for Chinese women. According to health experts, in China＇s developed coastal areas one out of every 1,000 women has the illness, the incidence is rising by three to four percent a year, and the fatality rate increasing by 6.9 percent a year.     

A SINGULAR SALES SPECTACLE

正Singles’Day poses a shift in e-commerce development in China Pocketbooks exploded once again on November 11,China’s Singles’Day.Despite the fact that the festival celebrates single people,it has now become one of the world’s largest online shopping extravaganzas.Shi Yang,a manager at a private firm in Beijing,spent more than 6,000 yuan($873)—equivalent to his wife’s monthly salary—on that day.     

Walking the Talk

正The Belt and Road is a practical platform to build a community with a shared future for mankind After 40 years of reforming and opening up,China draws closer to realizingits dream of national rejuvenation and bringing its people to prosperous life.As a responsible member of the international community and the largest developing country in the world,China shares people in the developing world’s aspiration for development.That’s one of the