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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The number of people 60 years of age and older may nearly triple to 2 billion by 2050, accounting for nearly a quarter of the expected 9.2 billion global population, a U.N. report warned on Tuesday.
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China&#039;s economy expanded at its fastest pace in a decade with growth of 11.3 percent in the second quarter, official data shows, exceeding expectations and possibly signaling the need for new cooling measures.
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Research says the next 50 years will see wild swings in the world's population, with India overtaking China.
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At a recent business summit, Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan predicted that China will sustain an annual economic growth rate of more than 7 per cent by 2020.
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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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A country must surely have something big going for it when its people live the longest, but what does longevity mean for the health of Japan's economy?
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Life expectancy for Japanese women &#151; already the longest in the world &#151; has risen by nearly one year, the Health Ministry said Thursday, citing the latest census data.
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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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Rising trend of early human death cases in recent years in China have sounded alert on how to find effective ways to prevent the widespread sub health problems, which has so
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More people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in either of the previous two years, with China alone accounting for 5,000 executions, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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A World Bank expert said the year 2004 is going to be a good year for China as the country&#39;s economy will grow rapidly with higher-than
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About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.
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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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China's economy should expand by 10.5 percent this year as an investment boom surges ahead despite tightening government controls, the country's top planner said in comments reported Monday by state media.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - China expects economic growth to reach at least 9 percent in 2004, according to a published report. Free! Sign up here to receive our Before the Bell e-Newsletter!
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China&#39;s economy was expected to grow by about nine percent this year, a senior official with the State Development and Reform Commission was quoted as saying by the Beijing News on Saturday.