China's life expectancy to jump: report
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Average life expectancy in China will jump 13 years to 85 years and all households will be lifted out of poverty by the middle of the century, Chinese academics forecast in a report issued in state media on Monday.
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A big jump in the official statistics shows that the Chinese government is finally starting to take the epidemic seriously
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Growth in China&#39;s roaring economy is expected to continue apace this year, rising 10.9 percent, a government think tank report said Wednesday, urging further economic cooling measures.
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China and other developing countries are demanding a bigger say in the aging institutions that superintend the world economy.
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China&#39;s annual economic growth surged  to an 11- year high of 11.9 percent in the second quarter,  cementing expectations for tighter policy to keep the world&#39;s  fastest-growing major economy from overheating.
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GENEVA, May 18 -- A boy born in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, will likely live to age 80, the world's longest male life expectancy, but newborn girls in Japan and 30 other countries have even better prospects, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.
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China's economy is set to grow at a faster-than-expected rate of 10.4% this year, the Asian Development Bank says.
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Life expectancy in the United States has increased to almost 78 years, the country's highest on record, amid a downturn in deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to new federal estimates published on Wednesday.
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LONDON, Oct 5 (IPS) - Civil society is growing rapidly in China --    where the government will let it, according to a new civil  society   index report by the group Civicus.
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China hopes its middle class will expand to more than half of its total population by 2020, a Communist Party planner said Wednesday.
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The number of cars on China's roads is set to rise sevenfold to 140 million by 2020, according to government forecasts.
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In a country where the average life span has extended to 81.9 years, Japan's elderly are not only the longest-lived but statistically the healthiest seniors in the world.
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China said cooling the world&#39;s fastest- growing major economy and maintaining a stable currency will be government priorities next year.
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China&#39;s economy will expand 8.8 per cent in 2004 and eight per cent in 2005, but growth next year may slow to 7.2 per cent if oil prices stay at around $40 a barrel, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
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China's supercharged economy grew by a stunning 11.5 percent in the third quarter, surging ahead despite official efforts to cool the boom and putting it on track to overtake Germany as the world's third-largest within weeks, according to data reported Thursday.
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The average 65-year-old American woman can now expect nearly two more decades of life, while men of the same age will live an average of 16 years longer.