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China's population is aging rapidly, the government said Thursday, though its leaders are refusing to relax strict family planning controls that are part of the cause.
The results of a national census conducted late last year show the proportion of elderly people in the country of 1.34 billion jumped, while that of young people plunged sharply. The census results, announced Thursday, also show that half the population now lives in cities.
The census adds data to the world-changing shifts under way in China in the past decade, as economic reforms raise living standards and pull more people off farms into the cities while families get smaller and the population ages.
China's rapid aging has fueled worries over how long the country will be able to sustain its high economic growth, as fewer young people are available to work in factories and build the roads that transformed it into the world's second biggest economy after the United States.
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Chinese citizens will be asked to think about donating their organs in the event of death when applying for drivers' licenses, reported the Legal Evening News on Sunday quoting Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu.
Huang said by the end of this year, all driver's license applicants will be given the option to donate their organs should they die and which organs they'd like to donate.
Huang said the move is to streamline the donor registration system so as to expand the pool of organs available for transplant surgeries.
Currently, China suffers a big shortage of transplantation organs. According to official statistics, China has 1.5 million patients in need of organ transplants each year, but only 10,000 of them could get transplants due to few donations.
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On Friday, a university student was sentenced to death for the murder of a young mother in Xi'an. The Yao Jiaxin case has drawn widespread public attention due to the identity of the killer and his cruel act.
This is the Intermediate People's Court of Xi'an.
A place not commonly associated with promising young musicians.
But on Friday, this was the place where a 21-year-old pianist was given the death sentence.
Judge, Xi'an Intermediate People's Court, said, "The motive is extremely despicable the measures are extremely cruel and the consequence is extremely serious."
At the age of 21, Yao was a student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music.
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17 people were killed and 24 others injured in a southern Beijing suburb Monday morning in the deadliest fire the Chinese capital has seen in nine years.
Nine men and eight women died in the fire, and most of them were migrant workers seeking accommodation in the building, said Wang Xin, deputy chief of the Daxing District Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Out of the 17 dead, thirteen were workers hired by an unlicensed garment workshop called Yuyun and the other four were tenants in the four-story building. And 11 of the dead lived on the ground floor, said Wang.
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A Green Paper on the Rural Economy estimates a 9 percent rise in prices for agricultural produce this year, Beijing Times reported Wednesday.
Grain prices will rise 10 percent, according to the Green Paper jointly issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.
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