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News of March 3

rd

, 2011

Domestic News

China supports drive to improve export quality

China will support self-improving actions by six trade commissions including

more than 40,000 export-oriented companies in various industries to improve

the quality of the country's exports.

At

the

opening

ceremony

of

the

East

China

Fair,

which

runs

through

Saturday

at

the

Shanghai

New

International

Expo

Center,

Vice

Commerce

Minister

Zhong

Shan

said”

Although

China

has

become

the

world's

biggest

exporter, our trade is plagued by various problems, one of which is related to

quality and the relatively thin profits.”

He

said,

We

should

further

improve

the

competitiveness

of

our

exports,

paying

more

attention

to

intellectual property

protection

and establishing

our

own distribution and marketing channels for more value-added goods.

Six trade commissions, covering light industry, textile, mining, food, electrical

equipment

and

medical

machine

sectors,

promised

to

cooperate

to

upgrade

the quality of products exported by their member companies on Tuesday.

Industrial activity falls for 3rd time in 3 months

The index

指数

measuring Chinese manufacturing activity slid for the third

consecutive

[k

?n?sekjutiv

month in February, reflecting the combined effects

of tightening policies, rising production costs and seasonal changes.

Some

economists,

however,

welcomed

the

fall,

considering

it

good

for

checking inflation and improving the economy.

The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said yesterday that the

official

Purchasing

Managers'

Index,

a

comprehensive

gauge

[

ɡeid?]

of

industrial activity across the country, lost 0

.

7 percentage points from January

1

to 52

.

2 percent in February.

It

was

the

third

fall

following

January's

52.9

percent,

December's

53.9

percent and November's 55.2 percent.

Wang Qing, a Morgan Stanley economist said industrial production not only

comes

to

a

halt

during

the

holiday,

but

is

also

significantly

weakened

in

the

week before and after.

Li

Maoyu,

a

Changjiang

Securities

Coperation

analyst,

said

China's

tightening measures to tame inflation also made it difficult for manufacturers to

get credit and bolster production, and that also helped drag down the index.

Regulation of vaccines passes key test

A press release issued by the World Health Organization's Beijing Office on

Tuesday said China's State Food and Drug Administration

has been reached

the international standards for the regulation of vaccines, something that will

help open the door to the export of domestically made vaccines.

Lahouari

Belgharbi,

a

scientist

from

the

World

Health

Organization's

Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (

生物制品

) said China’s

national

regulatory

authorities

were

recognized

as

being.

Chinese

manufacturers can now submit applications to have their vaccine pre-qualified

by the World Health Organization.

Belgharbi

headed

a

World

Health

Organization

group

that

conducted

the

latest assessment in December. It followed unsuccessful attempts by China to

pass the World Health Organization vaccine regulatory system assessment in

1999,

2001

and

2005.

He

specifically

looked

at

the

State

Food

and

Drug

Administration

's

overall

regulatory

framework,

marketing

authorization

and

licensing, post-marketing surveillance

[s

??

ve

?

l

?

ns]

and any adverse reactions

to vaccines.

Foreign News

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New Zealand mourns quake victims as toll estimate rises

The jackhammers fell silent, church bells pealed and a Maori

[?ma??

ri:]

（新

西兰语：毛利的）

lament filled the air yesterday as New Zealand came to a

standstill to mourn the estimated 240 people killed in an earthquake on

February 22.

Flags were lowered to half-staff

（下半旗）

and people gathered in groups in

cities and towns to bow their heads for two minutes of silence at 12:51pm, the

moment when the quake struck Christchurch.

The hundreds of rescue and recovery workers in the shattered city of

350,000, who have been clambering

[?kl?mb?

]

over and through the

wreckage

[?rekid?

]

nonstop since the quake struck, took a moment to pause

and turn dusty faces to the sky or the ground. Friends and neighbors hugged

each other. Traffic halted in the streets.

Prime Minister John Key had asked the nation's 4

.

5 million people to join in a

show

of

unity

for

people

tragedy

beyond

what

most

of

us

can

imagine.

Police

said

they

have

pulled

155

bodies

from

the

wreckage

[?rekid?

]

on

Tuesday, and said the number of others missing and feared dead indicated a

final death toll higher than previously thought.

Extreme winter weather linked to climate change

A

panel

[?p?nl]

of

scientists

said

this

winter's

heavy

snowfalls

and

other

extreme storms could well be related to increased moisture in the air due to

global climate change.

According

to

the

scientists,

this

extra

moisture

is

likely

to

bring

on

extraordinary flooding with the onset of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, as

deep snowpack melts and expected heavy rains increase seasonal run-off .(

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