China&#39;s city-dwellers in bad shape
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A Chinese survey shows up to 75 percent of the country&#39;s city-dwellers suffer from poor health, and well-educated people die 10 years earlier than others.
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An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent and many &quot;lost their heads&quot; when faced with difficult situations.
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SHANGHAI - In 1990, Shanghai was a poor, decaying post- colonial metropolis shaking off decades of economic stagnation. Its streets were congested, too - with bicycles.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red Cross.
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TO Zeng Shaotang, a farmer from South China&#39;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the medical bills he has to pay feels like a mountain on his shoulders.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.
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The city of Shenzhen looks like a preview of the limitations of the kind of growth-above-all approach that has gripped China.
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Streeters are getting a little less than they did in the past.
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Enthusing about the Beijing Olympics won't endear you to the ordinary folk of China's rural provinces. And their disdain speaks to a wider problem facing the central government
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Some five years ago, the central  Chinese city of Wuhan, whose laundry-draped low rises have  steadily given way to modern tower blocks, was well entrenched  in the psyche of domestic property investors, but little known  to the outside world.
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When the musclemen of China&#39;s weightlifting team moved the short distance to their new training centre in Beijing on Thursday, officials decided to dispense with a removal firm.
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BEIJING -- They have been called invaders, impractical eggheads, and barbarians intent on destroying the feng shui, the ancient art of harmony and balance. They are tripping over themselves to work in China. And like it or not, they are remaking the face of the country.
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China struggled on Sunday with  transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused  by snows and icy cold, with forecasters warning of more brutal  weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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For the worldâs Olympians, Beijingâs air is a performance issue. For the cityâs estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue.
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Chinese people are slightly fitter than   they were five years ago, but the nation's youth are also   noticeably fatter and their eyesight is deteriorating, Chinese   officials said on Monday.
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The health of China's ex-Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang has deteriorated sharply, reports say.