Invisible Influencers--Language experts' role in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19

When Ji Jin flew into Italy in March,it was the height of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)epidemic there and her work meant direct exposure to high risk.She was an interpreter for the Chinese medical team that had been sent to work with Italian doctors on COVID-19 prevention and control.     

Invisible Influencers

正Language experts’ role in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19 When Ji Jin flew into Italy in March, it was the height of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic there and her work meant direct exposure to high risk.She was an interpreter for the Chinese medical team that had been sent to work with Italian doctors on COVID-19 prevention and control.     

Great Care for Life——New-type of Beijing's rural medical care system

Shi Lianzhen, a 79-year-old villager from rural Beijing, has been suffering from coronary heart disease and myocardial irffarction. On October 15, 2003, she unexpectedly received 10,064 yuan (US$1,215) in subsidies for her diseases from the local government department in charge of rural co-operative medical care. This old female farmer, without any income source, was so excited that she couldn't put her feeling into words. For the first time in their life, Chinese farmers can enjoy medical care insurance like those wage workers in dries, when their health fails them and their lives are in the menace of death.     

A RECORD SIXTEEN DAYS

When Raz Gal Or was waiting at the Beijing Capital International Airport to board a flight to Tel Aviv ahead of the Spring Festival,both the 26-year-old entrepreneur and his friend Brian O'Shea were struck by the number of people wearing masks in the airport.Having been preoccupied with their businesses,they were not aware that an epidemic was spreading in Wuhan,Hubei Province in central China.Several days later,they collected 229 boxes of medical supplies in Israel in a day.     

China Spares No Effort to Combat SARS

INCE spring of thi s year,SARS(severeacute respiratory syndrome),the new anddeadly epidemic disease,has become a majorthreat to life.The Chinese government is tak—ing all possible measures to contain,prevent andtreat SARS.Top Concern of the Chinese Government This epidemic has put huge pressure on theChinese government.Since the founding of the PRC in1 949,diseases such as smallpox and polio have diedout,and remarkable achievements have been made indisease prevention and contr01.AS S…     

Lines of Life

My first experience of standing in a line for public medical care was when I was a baby in my mother's arm. So it was actually she who stood in the line so that I could get the free vaccination for measles and some other diseases. I remember it even after decades because it was painful. The medical worker made two incisions on the arm and a lot of the kids started bawling in shocked protest.     

Look Beyond Medical Pricing

Since a critical report on China's medical system reform was issued in mid-2005, it has become a major bone of contention. In April 2007, the State Council, China's cabinet, decided that from this year,economically developed provinces should single out one or two cities to experiment with the urban basic medical insurance system that focuses on serious diseases. Meanwhile,the Ministry of Health invited seven research institutions to independently work out medical reform schemes. Ministry sources said that the finalized scheme would come into effect later this year.But will these efforts help to ease the problem of high medical expenses in China? And is it true that current problems of China's medical system lie in the "over marketization" as some experts have pointed out? Professor Cai Jiangnan, from the School of Economics, Fudan University,and Professor Zhou Qiren,from the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University,put forward their different views on this issue, based on their long-term research of China 's medical system reform.     

Resource Shortages The Key

Since a critical report on China's medical system reform was issued in mid-2005, it has become a major bone of contention. In April 2007, the State Council, China's cabinet, decided that from this year,economically developed provinces should single out one or two cities to experiment with the urban basic medical insurance system that focuses on serious diseases. Meanwhile,the Ministry of Health invited seven research institutions to independently work out medical reform schemes. Ministry sources said that the finalized scheme would come into effect later this year.But will these efforts help to ease the problem of high medical expenses in China? And is it true that current problems of China's medical system lie in the "over marketization" as some experts have pointed out? Professor Cai Jiangnan, from the School of Economics, Fudan University,and Professor Zhou Qiren,from the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University,put forward their different views on this issue, based on their long-term research of China 's medical system reform.     

Insidious SARS

As the war in Iraq ends, SARS dominates the media. This makes China, where the disease first broke out, the focus of world concern. What is SARS? How did it start? What measures are China and the Chinese people taking to fight the epidemic? And will China need to go into isolation? SARS has thrown the people of China and the rest of the world into a state of rising panic.     

Why China’s Success Matters to Us All

AS heads of the G20 assembled in Los Cabos,Mexico,for their annual summit,it was clear that,four years into the international financial crisis,the policies adopted to deal with it by Europe and the U.S.are failing to do so.This is a statement of the obvious     

A Typical Example of a Chinese Classical Private Garden:Fisherman''''s Garden

The Fisherman's Garden was constructed during the Sung Dynasty and was rebuilt at the time of the Qing Dynasty in 1766. This garden's name came from a story which happened in the Chu Kingdom when China was split into several smaller kingdoms during the Warring States period (475-221 BC).Being a senior consultant to the King of Chu, the famous poet, writer and esthete, Qu Yuan (340-277 BC) was finally sent into exile. Before he committed suicide in a river, he met with an old fisherman who asked about the reason why he was sent into exile from the capital city for life. Qu Yuan replied:     

Bringing Up The Rear

As hospitals at the forefront of the fight against the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)were on high alert for infection risks and the treatment of patients,another source of infection was also getting special attention:medical waste.Like medical workers,waste handlers were also armed to the teeth with protective suits,goggles,face masks and gloves.Mostly volunteers from other parts of China,they worked around the clock and managed to dispose of medical waste amounting to five times the regular medical waste processing capacity of the city.     

Beijing Specialists Give Free Medical Treatment in Yunnan Province

To help improve the physical conditions of the people in the Hui ethnic minority areas of Yunnan Province, from December 6 to 11,2005, a 10-member medical team of specialists from the Capital went to the Weishan Yi and Hui Ethnic Minority Autonomous County of Dali Prefecture and Xundian Hui and Yi Ethnic Minority Autonomous County of Kunming City to give free medical treatment for 6 days. This activity was     

For People''''s Right to Safety Of Lives and Health——On development of health-related human rights in China

Medical and health work constitutes the prerequisite to protection of the people's right to safety of lives and health. Over the past decades, the Chinese Government has spared no effort in this regard and, as a result, the Chinese people's health has significantly improved. In the nationwide fight against the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic in the first half of 2003, the Government placed the health of the Chinese people and the safety of their lives above everything else. With a huge input of human, financial and material resources, the country won a decisive victory over the epidemic. Following is the full text of an interview by Human Rights with Gao Qiang, executive vice-minister of the Ministry of Health, on China's medical and health work and how it is related to protection of human rights.     

Helen,You Are Still Strong!

Helen Foster Snow is ill and her condition israther serious. This time-tested and sincere friend of the Chi-nese people had to leave her house where shehad lived for several decades and was reluctant topart with and moved into a nursing home. The lit-tle wood-structured house, located in Madison,Connecticut, is a treasure to her because it standson the three acres of land she and her husband     

Peacock Dance

CHINESE folk dance is a microcosm of the country’s rich culture.The Peacock dance of the Dai ethnic group is one of the most traditional folk dances in China.The presence of the Dai was first recorded in Han books in the f irst century.This ethnic group is mainly found in Yunnan in southwest China,the province known as the "land of eternal spring." It has its own language,calendar and medical science.Though being in a border area,the Dai people have always maintained contact with the heartland economy and culture.     

Just a Small Cog——Reflections on My 30-Year Experience as a Foreign Affairs Worker in Shanghai

On an autumn day in 1964, I stepped into the Foreign AffairsOffice of Shanghai, a short-haired former school teacher,dressed in white blouse and black skirt, apparently with all the verveof a youngster and the nervousness of a student on first enteringcollege. One of the leading officials in the room said to his colleagues:"She is now the youngest among us." This was the scene how I joinedthe staff there.     

DECADES OF DEVOTION

Chinese medical staff put aside their own discomfort to secure the well-being of the Mauritanian people The dispatch of medical corps to Mauritania by the Chinese Government was initiated in April 1968, with Heilongjiang Province in northeast China assigned the task. Over the past 38 years, more than 1,000 medical workers from Heilongjiang treated nearly 1 million patients in Mauritania. This means that two out of every five people in the country have received treatment from Chinese doctors. The most recent squad is the 27th of its kind.     

CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin Leads Working Group to U. S.

When beautiful spring came to Beijing in 2003, and the CPAFFC was getting ready to greet another spring of people-to-people friendly exchanges with a new posture, a sudden outbreak of the SARS epidemic hit some Chinese provinces and municipalities, which resulted in the postponement or cancellation of all the planned exchange programmes. Those between China and the United     

China's 5G Solutions

Since commercial 5G services were launched in China in 2019,the technology has become extensively used,going far beyond mobile phones into sectors as diverse as e-commerce and healthcare.Its versatility was particularly apparent last year when it was deployed in a specialty hospital in Wuhan in central China for epidemic prevention and control,and also used to measure the height of Mt.Qomolangma,the highest peak in the world.Wang Zhiqin,Vice President of China Academy of Information and Communications Tech no logy,talked about its development to Guangming Daily.