Zhao Shuming, deputy head of the clinical laboratory at the Southwest Hospital in Chongqing, said people are deterred from giving blood by the traditional belief that donation can harm health and affect the vital essence, or jingqi, in traditional Chinese medicine.
Zhao Yulin, a 93-year-old farmer, talks to a visitor on Thursday about what happened to him during the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Monday. Zhao, who fractured his right leg during the quake, is being treated at the First People's Hospital of Yibin. Huang Zhiling / China Daily
Zhou Huiqin, 54, said that when she started working for Wuxi social welfare center in 1985, it just had several dilapidated houses and less than 100 lonely older people who had nothing to do but chat with each other.
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Zhong left China to study at Iowa State University in 2007 and fell in love with the people and lifestyle of the American heartland.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group's methanol-fueled vehicles on display at an industry expo in Beijing. [Photo by Nan Shan/For China Daily]
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Zhao Ping, director of the international trade research department at the Academy of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said earlier residents on the island were not eligible to purchase duty-free products without tickets to depart the island. The new plan will allow island residents to buy duty-free products.
Zhao said that measures such as freezing, drying, frying and steaming cannot remove poisons from mushrooms, so the best way to avoid poisoning is not to eat wild mushrooms.
Zhang said the translation and publishing business now accounts for only 50 percent of the company's whole business. Readers in Arab countries are also interested in e-books, Chinese movies and animation works. Wisdom House is working on translating some Chinese movies into Arabic.
Zheng Jie, a representative of the Chinese donators, told Xinhua that she and other donators are parents of students of the Oporto International School (CLIP) and their children are also studying at the Confucius Institute in the CLIP.