China will create more rehabilitation service providers to meet rising demand, and encourage qualified county, district and city hospitals to convert their facilities into rehabilitation centers, according to Ma Xiaowei, vice minister of health.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-03/22/content_14889275.htm
Editor’s Note: China is now home to 83 million handicapped people, as well as 270 million chronic disease patients and a growing elderly population. The demand for rehabilitation services and professional healthcare is rising quickly. Foreign educational institutes or training organizations that are strong in this field may find that training programs for advanced rehabilitation therapy for elderly and handicapped people will become an opportunity for them to develop international cooperation with China.
In March, the Chinese government announced a plan to further improve nationwide transportation with ten massive transportation routes crisscrossing the country taking form by 2015, as well as a high-speed railway network and a state-level expressway network.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-03/22/content_14888826.htm
Editor’s note: China now stresses safety, quality and good planning in its drive to build a comprehensive transportation network. Transportation related majors are in rising demand during the process of expanding the transportation network.
On April 6, China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) published a notice to remind Chinese students to Britain to be prepared for the fact that foreign graduates will no longer receive work permits, and that there are raised standards for overseas students’ English proficiency and the sum of property proof.
Source: Xinhua.net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-03/19/c_131476339.htm
Late 2011, the Chinese government started the Thousand Foreign Experts program, which is designed to attract up to 1,000 foreign academics and entrepreneurs over the next 10 years to help improve research and innovation.
Source: The New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/world/asia/12iht-educlede12.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Sanya, the southernmost city in China seeks to reinvent itself as the “Miami of the East” as part of a plan to attract more tourists from home and abroad. Plans now exist to complete 40 five-star hotels in five years in a 19-kilometer stretch of Haitang Bay in Sanya. According to reports, half of them will open before 2015, almost doubling the number of hotels in the city.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-03/17/content_14854050.htm
Editor’s note: Sanya is a popular destination for tourism in China, for its warm weather and beautiful scenery. The large number of hospitality program graduates and their high employment rate in China shows that this sector is drawing students’ interest and has potential for further cooperation. Canadian educational institutes can reach out to develop various joint programs on tourism and hospitality with Chinese colleges and universities. Usually programs with internships in overseas star hotels are most welcomed.
The Canadian province of British Columbia plans to increase its international student population by 50 percent over the next four years through closer educational cooperation with China.
Source: Xinhua.net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-03/17/c_131472983.htm
China may have a national electronic food-safety tracking system in place by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-15), helping make food safer and market regulation easier, according to Sun Pishu, CEO of the Chinese information-technology company Inspur Group Co Ltd and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-03/15/content_14840431.htm
Editor’s note: According to a previous China Daily report, a poll on the official website of the CPPCC Beijing Committee suggested that food safety holds seventh place on a list of 15 matters that are of major concern to Chinese Internet users. Food scandals have expanded from milk, yogurt to even medicine. Food safety is an issue drawing rising public attention, and there is growing public outcry for the government to enhance regulation of the food market. A food-safety tracking system from which detailed production information is available for consumers may be useful for improving the current situation.
Applicants for overseas universities continued to rise in Shanghai in 2011, due to locals’ desire for an international education and lower cost brought about by the yuan’s appreciation. Nearly 12,500 students from the city headed overseas to study last year, 6 percent more than in 2010. The United States topped the destinations list, according to the Shanghai Education Commission.
Source: Xinhua.net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-03/13/c_131464652.htm
The government is considering providing more subsidies to poor students at vocational schools in order to meet the country’s rising demand for qualified technical workers, said Zhang Guangming, director of the China National Center for Student Assistance Administration.
Source: Xinhua.net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/28/c_131435582.htm
A record 292,611 students from 194 countries and regions studied in China in 2011, up 10 percent from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Education.
Source: Xinhua.net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/28/c_131436457.htm
