Category : China Watch

Chinese Vaccines Can Handle ‘3,000 Indian Covid Strains’ China’s health authorities have rushed to assure the public that their vaccines will be able to handle the ‘Indian variant’. This comes after local media reported on May 5, of 18 cases of double mutant coronavirus among Chinese nationals, living near Delhi, who had returned home via […]Read More

Operation Bright Eyes China’s Ministry of Education has launched “Child and Adolescent Myopia Prevention and Control Bright Action Work Plan (2021-2025)” or ‘Operation Bright Eyes.’ Statistics show that the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in the country exceeds 50%, and high school students are as high as 80%. Even children under six years […]Read More

No Rush To Get Vaccinated China’s vaccination campaign has by its own admission been slow going. According to government figures valid until April this year Beijing administered 167.3 million doses across the country much lower than the scheduled target of vaccinating 560 million people – around 40% of the population by the end of June. […]Read More

E-Commerce To Tackle Medical Muddle China is one of the most over-medicated countries in the world and no, this is not due to pill popping by patients. Market reforms of the 1980s caused China’s medical system to become partially deregulated, with the result that medical costs spiralled upward. This was because hospitals were freed to […]Read More

Judicious Oversight China’s judiciary is not independent but an arm of the executive. Even so, instances of people convicted of crimes they never did or against whom evidence is doubtful are increasingly coming to light, prompting many families to seek redress. One man who stands out for his sterling fight against the system is lawyer […]Read More