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· 1. Food safety control
· 2. Medicine prices
· 3. Migrant workers join social security system
· 4. Rural home appliance
· 5. Jobs for graduates

Key Words

· 1. Food safety control
· 2. Medicine prices
· 3. Migrant workers join social security system
· 4. Rural home appliance
· 5. Jobs for graduates
China adopts law to strengthen food safety control

The law, which goes into effect on June 1, 2009, will enhance monitoring and supervision, toughen safety standards, recall substandard products and severely punish offenders.
China creates list of essential medicines

The government will make a list of essential medicines that can satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. The cost and distribution of these medicines will be regulated by the government. Essential medicines will be widely used in all public health-care institutions at the grassroots level, and will be sold to patients on a non-profit basis. They will also become the medicines of first choice in other health care institutions.
China cuts basic medicine prices

According to the National Development and Reform Commission, the price on 45 percent of the essential medicines will go down by 12 percent on average. Prices for about 49 percent will remain unchanged. Prices for about 6 percent now in shortage will be raised moderately to encourage production.
China launches massive vaccination against A/H1N1 influenza

China stored enough A/H1N1 vaccines to inoculate 13 million people. The state ordered an additional 15 million doses.
40 migrant workers get Shanghai residence status

Forty outstanding migrant workers in Shanghai comprise the first group of beneficiaries in a new residence policy scheme. They have successfully registered to Shanghai household status from their previous Shanghai permanent residence status.
Migrant workers join social security system

By the end of the third quarter of the year, some 25 million migrant workers were registered as part of the pension insurance scheme. That´s up half a million from the start of the year. Meanwhile, the number of such workers covered by unemployment insurance now stands at 16 million, with those covered by health care insurance numbering 43 million.
New reforms offer better education to children of migrant workers

New reforms in schools are now offering better education to children of migrant workers in Shanghai´s Pudong new and Jinshan districts.
In these private-run schools, students get the same treatment as that meted out to registered permanent resident students.
Subsidy boosts rural home appliance sales

Figures show that during the first 10 months of this year, sales of home appliances under the scheme reached over 27 million units. The total revenue was 50 billion yuan.
China to set up health archives for all rural residents

China is set up health archives for its 900 million-strong rural population with the aim of improving services for them.
A ministry´s working plan says the initiative will first be carried out in pilot cities and counties nationwide this year to iron out any problems and decide on viable frameworks.
Creating more jobs for recent graduates

Employment has been a huge challenge for China in 2009, after a record 6.1 million recent college graduates entered the job market. With the new year fast approaching, the country plans to continue the priority of finding them employment.

Key Words

Key Words

· 1. Food safety control
· 2. Medicine prices
· 3. Migrant workers join social security system
· 4. Rural home appliance
· 5. Jobs for graduates

Key Words

Key Words

· 1. Food safety control
· 2. Medicine prices
· 3. Migrant workers join social security system
· 4. Rural home appliance
· 5. Jobs for graduates

China adopts law to strengthen food safety control

China creates list of essential medicines

China cuts basic medicine prices

China launches massive vaccination against A/H1N1 influenza

40 migrant workers get Shanghai residence status

Migrant workers join social security system

New reforms offer better education to children of migrant workers

Subsidy boosts rural home appliance sales

China to set up health archives for all rural residents

Creating more jobs for recent graduates

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