News Roundup
A voluntary interpreter helps a foreign resident to register for vaccination at a vaccination site in Beijing on April 15
CHINA
Rise in Foreign Residents
C
hina has seen an increasing number of foreign residents while continuing to open up in the past decade, the latest population census shows.
A total of 845,697 foreigners were liv­ing on the Chinese mainland in 2020 when the seventh national census was
conducted, up about 250,000 from a de­cade ago.
Around 402,000 of them are male, according to the report of the once-in- a-decade survey, which was published by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 11.
Duan Chengrong, a demographic re­searcher in Beijing, said the increase in the number of foreigners over the past decade is a telltale sign of the sustained expansion of population of foreigners on the mainland as the country continues to open up.
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GHANA
Creating Jobs for the  Youth
The Ghanaian Government will speed up the implementation of its proposed Jobs and Skills Program to promote skill devel­opment and offer job oppor­tunities to the youth, Ghana^ Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said on May 9.
The upcoming $200-million program will strengthen the ca­pacity of the private sector as well as small and medium en­terprises to create jobs for the youth, he said at a press briefing.The government will also launch eight new initiatives in the coming months in the health, tourism, trade, agriculture and infrastructure sectors to boost economic growth, which will contribute to job creation, said the minister.
The youth unemployment rate in the West African country in­creased to 9.46 percent in 2020, compared with the 9.1 percent re­corded a year earlier, data show.
KENYA
Smart city  Development
Kenya has approved six stan­dards that will guide the devel­opment of eco-friendly cities that use infor
mation and communica­tions technology.
Bernai'd Njiraini, Managing Di­rector of Kenya Bureau of Stan­dards (KEBS), said on May 13 that the approved standards will facil­itate the transformation of urban infrastructure in a smart and sus­tainable way.<4As Kenya continues to rapidly urbanize, we increasingly rely on technological solutions to create sustainable living patterns, man­age resource consumption in w a­ter and energy, enhance smart in- frastructure development as well as tackle environmental challeng­es such as garbage disposal and recycling," said Njiraini in a state­ment released in Nairobi.
According to the KEBS, the ap­proved standards address issues such as real-time data and infor­matics exchange, smart trans­portation and electric power infrastructure.
Kenya is currently developing two smart cities namely Tatu and Konza.
SOMALIA
Enhancing Press  Freedom
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Roble on May 3 vowed to promote press freedom in the country.Roble said Somali journalists face challenges of tackling misin­formation and other harmful co
n­tent while having their own secu- rity concerns.
Roble said the government will come up with a solution to tack­le disinformation which he said is affecting Somalia particularly during the transition period, urg­ing Somali media to refrain from reporting unverified and unreli­able information to improve the services media provides for the public.
CHINA
Increased Average  Salary
The average salary of China’s urban employees saw growth in 2020 despite the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic，official data showed on May 19.
In non-private sectors, the real growth of the average salary for urban employees, adjusted for inflation, rose by 5.2 percent to 97,379 yuan (about $15,155), ac­cording to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
In private sectors, the annu­al average salary stood at 57,727 yuan (about $8,942), up 5.3 per­cent year on year after deducting price factors.
Hie growth rate of the aver­age salary of urban employees in non-private sectors is at its low­est point since 1984, while that of the workers in private sectors dropped to its second-lowest point since 2009, according to the bureau.
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An African mother with her baby
Media Watch
AFRICA
Revitalizing  Maternal & Infant Health
A
frican countries on May 18 renewed commit­ments to revitalizing the health of women, children and adolescents as part of COVID-19 recovery.
Speaking at a virtual forum, senior policymakers from Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, Liberia and Ken­ya said maternal, infant and adolescent health re­mained a top national priority despite pandemic-re- lated disruptions.
"Women, children, and adolescents have been sig­nificantly affected by COVID-19 that has devastated economies and affected social and community life," said Zweli Lawrence Mkhize, South African Minis­ter of Health.
Senior African policymakers, campaigners and researchers were among more than 1,000 delegates who participated in a two-day summit of Lives in the Balance ： Equity in COVID-19 Response and Re­covery that kicked off on May 18.
Change of Tibet
Outlook W eekly
May 17
Signed in Beijing on May 23,
1951, the 17-article agree­ment, a shortened version of the Agreement Between the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the
Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, has a historical significance in the peaceful liberation of Tibet.On March 28,1959, the Communist Party of China led people in Tibet to launch the democratic reform, which abolished its feudal serf­dom under theocracy.
In the past, the democrat­ic reform liberated 1 mil­lion serfs in Tibet. Now, with the poverty alleviation drive, the autonomous region’s 3.5 million people are ush­ering in a moderately pros­perous life. It is a histor- ic leap in their way of life.
Ant 卜Monopoly Actions
China Economic W eekly
May 15
Chinese courts will step up judicial work to facilitate the countryf s anti-monopo­ly drive, says a plan on judi­cial protection for intellec- tual property rights (IPR) for the 2021-2025 period.
Courts will strengthen work on the trials of monopoly and unfair competition cases, and judicial interpretations will be issued to help curb monopolistic conduct and unfair competition, reads the plan.
It foresees further efforts to see that monopoly disputes in the internet sector are
better handled, anti-monopoly adjudication rules relevant to Internet platforms improve, and disorderly expansion of capital is prevented.Courts will also ramp up the protection of copyright.
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Kenya's lobster export to China More on page 36
CHINA
Developing TCM Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to further develop traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Xi made the remarks during an inspection tour of Nanyang City in central China s Henan Province.
The Chinese nation relied on TCM to treat diseases and save lives for thousands of years，” Xi said “Having fought against COVID-19, SARS and other major infectious diseas­es, we have a deeper under­standing of the role of TCM" he noted.
Highlighting the need to promote TCM development,
Xi said efforts should be made to interpret the mechanism
of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology with modern science and
to incorporate both TCM
and Western medicine into treatment.CHINA
register forWhite Paper on
Tibet Released
China's State Council
Information Office on May 21
issued a white paper on the
peaceful liberation of Tibet
and its development over the
past seven decades.
The white paper, titled Tibet
Since 1951： Liberation, Devel­
opment and Prosperity, re­
viewed Tibet's history and
achievements, and presented a
true and panoramic picture of
the new socialist Tibet.
Seventy years after the
peaceful liberation in 1951, a
brand new socialist Tibet has
taken shape, according to the
white paper.
In the new era, under the
strong leadership of the Com­
munist Party of China Central
Committee with Xi Jinping at
the core and with the vigorous
support of the whole country,
Tibet has eradicated extreme
poverty, said the white paper.
New Congolese
Prime Minister
Congo’s President Denis
Sassou Nguesso has appoint­
ed Anatole Collinet Makosso
as the new prime minister of
the country, replacing Clement
Mouamba, according to a de­
cree issued on May 12.
Makosso, 56, was minister
of primary and secondary edu­
cation in the outgoing govern­
ment. He is now in charge of
forming the new government.
Before this appointment,
Makosso was the min­
ister of education since
2015. He was also minis­
ter of youth and civic instruc­
tion from 2011 to 2016.
Mouamba presented his
resignation to Nguesso on
May 5, after Nguesso was
re-elected as president of the
Republic of Congo in March.
Renowned Liver
Surgeon Dies
Wu Mengchao, founder
of hepatobiliary surgery in
China and teacher of rough­
ly 80 percent of the experts
and doctors specializing in
liver surgeries in the coun­
try today, died at the age of
99 in Shanghai on May 22.
As a world-renowned sci­
entist, Wu, an academician
with the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and former Vice
President of the Shanghai-
based Second Military Medical
University, completed more
than 16,000 surgical opera­
tions over a 75-year career.
As the first Chinese doc­
tor to establish a theoretical
basis for liver surgery, he was
responsible for more than 30
major medical achievements
using independent innovation.
Who Will Join the Labor Force?
Lifeweek
May 3
China has maintained its po­sition as the world's largest manufacturing country for 11 consecutive years with the industrial added value reaching 31.3 trillion yuan ($4.84 trillion), according to
data released by the Ministry
of Industry and Information
Technology on March 1.
Moreover, according to
the Ministry of Education
(MOE), the recruitment of
college students graduating
this summer is currently
in progress, with students
majoring in equipment
manufacturing emerging as
popular candidates. This
trend reflects the nation’s
strong demand for a new
workforce in manufacturing-
related industries and
vocational areas.
Supervising
Cancer Treatment
China Newsweek
May 3
Data from the National Cancer
Center shows that the over­
all five-year survival rate for
cancer in China has risen by
nearly 10 percentage points
to 40.5 percent in the past
decade, with the rate for
esophageal cancer exceeding
some developed countries.
However, in a recent on­
line post, an oncologist from
Peking University Third Hospital
accused some doctors of mal­
practice in cancer treatment,
including some who deliber­
ately choose substandard or
expensive treatment options.
He Jie, Director of the
National Cancer Center, said
a large number of existing
standards and guidelines on
cancer treatment cannot keep
up with the latest advanc­
es in medical science. CA
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