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China Reports Progress in Natural Disasters Monitoring, Relief Technologies Chinese researchers had made significant progress in developing key technologies for natural disaster early warning systems and emergency relief,     

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Premier Visits Blizzard-hit Xinjiang, Promising Relief Measures Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Altay and Tacheng, two regions in northwest China's Xinjiang     

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China releases Plan to Create 45 mln Jobs China’s State Council,or Cabinet,on Feb.8,2012 issued a plan to boost employment during the 2011-15 period,which aims to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.     

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<正>BBC Reporter Talks about Human Rights Censoriously and Chinese Premier Easily Cope The afternoon of June 17,London.It was sunny after the cool weather for several days.In a classical building of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and British Prime Minister attended the signing ceremony of a series of the cooperation documents between the two countries.     

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<正>China to Push Urbanization Reform China will enhance reforms in the management of population data land,funding guarantees,housing and environmental protection to boost the urbanization process,according to a senior oi cial from the country’s top economic planner.     

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Workers' Congress Coming to China's State-owned Companies A draft measure, aiming to clarify the rights and operation of workers' congresses in key state-owned enterprises (SOEs), underwent a tenth reading on Feb. 2 ,2007.     

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China Allocates 1.1 Bln USD to Boost Rural Health-Care China’s Ministry of Finance said on Aug. 4, 2011 that it would earmark 7.15 billion yuan (1.1 billion U.S. dollars) for boosting the quality of rural health care.     

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Chinese President, Premier Urge All,Out Efforts to Save Passengers Injured in Plane Crash     

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Old Age Allowances to Be Unified Across China
Residents older than 80 would get a unified old age allowance across China, a move indicating the government aims to end different allowance policies toward the elderly in different regions, the China Economic Weekly reported on April 13, 2010.     

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China to Balance Administrative Efficiency and Protection of Citizen's Rights The Seventh China-Germany Symposium on Law, jointly launched by the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council and the German Ministry of Justice, was held with the theme of "administrative enforcement and protection of citizen's rights" May 22, 2006 in XI'AN. Cao Kangtai, director of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council said China has built a prelim-     

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<正>China Outlines Measures to Ensure Food Safety Chinese authorities on Dec.192013 unveiled a package of measureto ensure food safety in 2014,as themore affluent public shows greatecare in what they eat.The measures drawn up by theexecutive office of the food safetycommission under the State CouncilChina’s Cabinet,range from legislation amendments to measures againsviolations of food safety.The office called for more rigorous checks,in particular duringholidays like new Year and SpringFestival,to prevent major food safetyincidents in 2014.     

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<正>Chinese Leaders Commemorate Deng Xiaoping’s Birth Anniversary Chinese President Xi Jinping a d d r e s s e d a s y m p o s i u m o n Wednesday morning to mark the upcoming 110th anniversary of the birth of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping,which falls on Friday.Senior leaders Li Keqiang,Zhang Dejiang,Yu Zhengsheng,     

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China Issues White Paper on Judicial Reform The Chinese government issued a white paper on judicial reform on Oct.9,2012,highlighting the progress that has been made in safe guarding justice and protecting human rights.Apart from reviewing China’s judicial system and reform process,the white paper focuses maintaining social fairness,justice and human rights     

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China Releases Plan to Create 45 Mln Jobs China’s State Council,or Cabinet,on Feb.8,2012 issued a plan to boost employment during the 2011-15 period,which aims to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.     

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CPC Departments Establish Spokesman System A list of spokesmen for seven departments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and their phone numbers was announced on Dec. 28, 2006. "Substantial progress has been made in the establishment of the information release and spokesman systems at departments of the CPC Central Committee," said Cai Wu, Minister of the Information Office of the State Council, at a press conference.     

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China Issues Judicial Rules to Boost Government Transparency China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued a judicial explanation to regulate and standardize trial procedures for the country’s increasing number of government information disclosure cases in a bid to promote governmental transparency. The explanation, which was issued on aug. 12, 2011 and published in next day’s edition of the People’s Court Daily, a newspaper run by the SPC,     

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Disabled Chinese to Get Driver's Licenses asNew Regulations Take Effect More disabled people would be able to drive in China, including those paralyzed from the waist down,     

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China to Ensure EqualPay via Legislation China’s top legislature on Dec.28,2012 adopted an amendment to the Labor Contract Lawto ensure that workers hired through labor contracting agents receive the same treatment as direct recruits.The amendment,set to take effect on July1,2013,was adopted at the conclusion of a five-day     

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China Outlines Measures to Improve Service on Childbearing for Migrant Workers Local governments should not force married female migrant workers at child-bearing age to return to their hometowns for pregnancy tests, according to a draft regulation drafted by the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council.     

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Experts Discuss ScientificDevelopment, Human RightsChinese scholars and experts ofhuman rights met in Beijing on Dec.9, 2005, at a human rights sympo-sium to discuss how to improve theall-around development of Chinesehuman rights under the guidance ofscie…