Newborn puts China census count at 1.3b
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BEIJING -- A baby boy delivered in a Beijing maternity ward early yesterday became China's 1.3 billionth citizen, the government said, using the occasion to tout its contentious one-child policy.
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China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, swelled to $1.33 trillion by the end of the first half on the back of massive trade flows that contributed to an acceleration in money supply growth in June.
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China's economy grew by 9.5 percent in the first three quarters of 2004 compared to the same period last year, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced.
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China has allocated nearly 1.6 million tickets to more than 300,000 people for next year's Beijing Olympics in the first round of booking, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
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Three-year-old is first foreign child to be taken, but residents blame criminals rather than insurgents.
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China's supercharged economy grew by a stunning 11.5 percent in the third quarter, slowing slightly but staying on track to overtake Germany as the world's third-largest economy within weeks, according to data reported Thursday
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The number of Internet users in China soared past 200 million in 2007, a new report from the country&#39;s quasi-government Internet overseer said Thursday.China&#39;s Internet population&#160;stood at 210 million at the end of last year, up 53 percent from the same time in 2006 when there were 137 million, the China Internet Network Information Centre said in its semi-annual report on Internet use here.That figure puts China just 5 million users away from becoming the world&#39;s largest wired nation -- and with only about 16 percent of the population online. At its current growth rate, China will become the world&#39;s top Internet market sometime in the next few months.The greatest growth came from users under 18 and over 30, CNNIC said. One of the most surprising statistics from the new report indicates that about 40 percent of users added over the last year, over 29 million, came from rural areas. Even in the January 2007 report, the vast majority of Chinese Netizens were based in major urban areas such as Beijing and Shanghai.Also surprising among the new results is that China&#39;s most popular Internet application is online music, used by 86.6 percent of those surveyed, followed by instant messaging with 81 percent. E-mail placed only fifth, with 56.5 percent using it.CNNIC&#39;s survey provides the most reliable information about Internet use in China, although its methodology is translucent at best. It does not reveal its sample size, nor does it reveal what consists of an Internet user except that the person used the Internet at least once in the month prior to when the survey was taken.While the new statistics may seem impressive, it highlights how Internet usage in the country still lags behind mobile phone use, and how even greater usage could be spurred by more access through wireless devices. &quot;China&#39;s admittedly impressive user statistics hide an important fact: only a fraction of those users have regular access to a PC,&quot; said David Wolf, CEO of Wolf Group Asia, a Beijing-based technology consultancy.Despite limited PC access for some users, Chinese Internet users have embraced the Internet as a means of expression. &quot;In addition to an increase in overall numbers, you also see a rise in the number of Netizens creating content on BBS and blogs, making Chinese Netizens some of the most active participants in the Web 2.0 phenomena in the world,&quot; said Sam Flemming, founder and CEO of CIC, an Internet word of mouth monitoring firm based in Shanghai.
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About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system.
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Bank of China&#039;s shares made a strong debut Wednesday in Shanghai, surging 23 percent in the mainland&#039;s biggest initial public offering.
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BEIJING - Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
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A Chinese hospital has been ordered to pay 500,000 yuan (33,000 pounds) to two families 21 years after they took home the wrong newborn babies, state media reported on Thursday.
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SHANGHAI: A city forecast shows the third baby boom is expected in the next 10 years with annual newborns expected to reach a peak of 160,000 in 2014 and 2015.
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Lunar New Year has started with a bang as China's 1.3 billion population ushered in the Year of the Pig with food, drink and massive firework displays.
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China will unveil new rules this week  aimed at restricting the number of foreigners who can adopt  Chinese children, an official said on Wednesday, which foreign  agencies say will ban the obese and unmarried from adopting.
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China's total foreign trade for 2004 is expected to jump 30 percent year-on-year to 1.1 trillion dollars, making it the world's third largest trading power, the Ministry of Commerce said.
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Simplicity Inc. is recalling about 1 million Chinese-made baby cribs which have been linked to at least two infant deaths, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.