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Lively More nurses sought to exchanges treat elderly population Students from overseas talk with business figures at a conference By WANG XIAODONG on international [email protected] exchange and coopera We will release a tion at the Nanjing Health authorities will redou International Expo Cen ble their efforts to train nurses in detailed standard for ter in Jiangsu province eldercare as the proportion of evaluating nursing on Wednesday. The con older people in the population ference attracted more expands and tens of millions of services for the than 1,200 professionals people struggle with disabilities, disabled elderly from around 30 a senior health official said on countries. Wednesday. population ... so the CUI XIAO / FOR CHINA DAILY Jiao Yahui, deputy chief of services will aim medical administration and supervision at the National precisely at those Health Commission, said there most in need.” are not enough nurses to cope with the growing needs of the Jiao Yahui, deputy chief of medical administration and country’s elderly. supervision at the National A regulation on the training of Health Commission healthcare workers and stan dards of service is being drafted. daycare centers. It is expected to boost the num Regulations will also be ber of nurse’s aides, Jiao said released to encourage communi ahead of International Nurses ty health centers to provide beds Day on Sunday. to the elderly at home, so family The nurse’s aides will comple doctors can provide treatment ment the work of fullfledged there, she said. nurses to meet the demand for “The disabled, whether fully or services for the elderly, she said. partial, will be the priority in The number of registered nursing services,” Jiao said. “We nurses in China topped 4 million will release a detailed standard 2 eastern provinces clamp as of the end of last year. Nearly for evaluating nursing services 70 percent held a junior college for the disabled elderly popula degree or above, accounting for tion, including psychological almost half of all healthcare pro needs, so the services will aim fessionals, she said. precisely at those most in need,” Last year, there were 150 mil she said. down on chemical plants lion people 60 years or above liv Xi Huan, vicepresident of Bei ing with chronic diseases in jing Hospital, said major medical China. Of those, 44 million were institutions need to make more Hundreds of facilities closed; rules laid ment regulation and companies’ fully or partially disabled and in efforts to improve services for the selfdiscipline, but it was not men need of regular nursing services, elderly, including the promotion down on locations, resident proximity Increasing the tioned in the plan. she said. of disease prevention education “Increasing the factory leaders’ “With more nurses and nurse’s and increased followup visits for By CANG WEI in Nanjing be closed or relocated must move factory leaders’ consciousness of environmental aides, the demand for nursing elderly patients who have been [email protected] nearby residents to safer places. consciousness of protection is more important,” he services from the elderly will be discharged from the hospital. Jiangsu has 53 chemical parks, said. “They should pay attention to gradually met,” she said. “Big hospitals should provide Jiangsu and Shandong provin with seven of those ranking in the environmental environmental protection in all The commission will also more help for elderly patients, ces, the two regions with the most country’s top 30 in output — espe protection is more aspects of management.” encourage community health and more followup nursing ser valuable chemical output, have cially pesticides, dyes and petro The blast in Xiangshui on March centers to provide more nursing vices after they leave the hospital, made stricter environmental pro chemicals. Jiangsu’s chemical important.” 21 at the Xiangshui Chemical services for the elderly in neigh so they can get timely help if prob tection policies and closed many industry revenue reached more Li Chunhua, directorgeneral of Industrial Park in Yancheng, Jiang borhoods, Jiao said. They would lems occur at home or at commu chemical plants following a blast in than 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) in Green Stone Environmental Pro su, injured hundreds of people and include more beds and setting up nity health centers,” he said. Jiangsu’s Xiangshui county that 2017, ranking second in the country tection Center, an NGO led to the closure of the entire killed 78 people in March. in total output, behind Shandong chemical park. The provincial government province. Jinan, Shandong province, and released a plan earlier this week In 2017, Jiangsu had more than closed or relocated 600 of them and Ulaanqab in the Inner Mongolia calling for closure or relocation of 5,000 chemical factories. Now it suspended 2,000 since the second autonomous region both reported all chemical plants within 1 kilome has 1,660 chemical enterprises that half of 2017. deadly production accidents in ter of the Yangtze River and outside produce less than 20 million yuan Li Chunhua, directorgeneral of April, with 10 people killed at Qilu a designated chemical industry annually, 71 in environmental sen Green Stone Environmental Pro Tianhe Pharmaceutical Co in Jinan park by the end of 2020. sitive areas and 34 outside chemical tection Center, an NGO in Nanjing, and four dead and 35 injured at No chemical parks or projects industrial parks closer than 1 km to Jiangsu, said the plan is compre Dongxing Chemical Co in Ulaanqab. will be built or expanded inside the the Yangtze. hensive and focuses on solving safe On April 29, the State Council’s 1 km zone, and factories failing to Shandong province, whose total ty problems. Workplace Safety Commission meet environmental protection chemical output value leads the “More government information ordered leading officials in the two standards will be closed. country, has closed more than 400 disclosure and public supervision cities to take effective measures to Qualified factories are being chemical factories since April 1. should be encouraged,” Li said, add ensure the safe production of haz encouraged to move to nearby The province has more than ing that public supervision is an ardous chemicals, Xinhua News chemical parks. Those that cannot 9,000 chemical factories and has effective supplement to govern Agency reported.
Nurses participate in a skills competition at a traditional Chinese Safety rules for bouncy castles effective July 1 medicine hospital in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guang xi Zhuang autonomous region, on Wednesday, ahead of Interna By ZHANG YANGFEI and residential communities. How lifted up in such weather.” State Administration for Market tional Nurses Day on Sunday. GONG PUKANG / FOR CHINA DAILY [email protected] ever, there has been little safety reg A similar incident occurred on Regulation. ulation of the inflatable products, March 31, when a whirlwind struck He added that it was urgent to A new national safety standard resulting in frequent accidents, the in Yucheng county, Henan province, have strict rules for the production for bouncy castles and other inflata administration said on its website. and blew a bouncy playhouse high and supervision of such facilities. ble amusement devices will take It added that quality and safety had into the air. Two children died and After studying recent accidents at Three fined for riding effect on July 1 in the wake of several become pressing issues. 20 other people were injured, home and abroad, the drafting team fatal accidents. On the afternoon of May 2, a including two adults, local officials concluded that wind resistance is Released in February by the State whirlwind flipped an inflatable cas said. the biggest problem. The inflatable across nature reserve Administration for Market Regula tle in a public square in Laiyuan The previous safety regulations structures act like giant kites, so they tion and the Standardization county, Hebei province, killing two on inflatable amusement equip must be anchored to the ground. Administration of China, the new children and injuring seven. ment mainly addressed issues such The new standards set clear By LI HONGYANG He had fallen behind after rules address several key risk areas Three people were detained by as height and speed, failing to take requirements for anchoring and [email protected] injuring his knee and could not and lay out clear requirements for the police. into account the dangers. ballast systems, as well as for struc go fast. After consuming all his anchoring and ballasting to stabi “A whirlwind lasts a short time, “In recent years, amusement tural integrity, electrical installa Three people were fined 5,000 food, he ate grass roots for more lize the structures and keep them moves fast and is hard to monitor equipment such as bouncy castles tions, player limits, safety labeling yuan ($740) each by forestry than a week to stay alive and lost grounded. with sensors," a meteorological have become popular, and so the and emergency procedures. police in the Tibet autonomous 15 kilograms, Feng told Beijing Inflatable amusements such as station staff member from Lai risks have become apparent,” Zhang Zhang said the new rules will pro region for illegally crossing the Youth Daily. bouncy castles and slides are popu yuan county told China National Yong, one of the main drafters of the mote standard procedures for small Changtang Nature Reserve. Lhapa said illegal crossings can lar with children and can be seen in Radio. “The bouncy castle is usu new standards, told China Quality operators and the entire industry to Lhapa, head of the natural seriously damage natural resour many playgrounds, public squares ally very light and can be easily Daily, an official newspaper of the improve safety. resources bureau of Amdo coun ces in the reserve, including ty, said management of the affecting wild animals’ migration reserve would be enhanced by patterns or even survival. rangers and by putting up more “In addition, rescuing Feng has signs to remind people not to wasted a large amount of nation Illegal collection of personal info by apps detailed break the law. al public resources,” he said. On March 5, Feng Hao, Jin Lu In April 2017, the Forestry By ZHANG YI The draft also says apps may not believed that their private informa and Li Zhisen, all in their 20s, Bureau of the Tibet autonomous [email protected] collect personal information that is CREDIBLE tion was unnecessary to the func started out on a bicycle trip region announced a strict prohi not related to the functioning of the tioning of the app. through the reserve, Li said on bition on people crossing the The Cyberspace Administration app. CHINA When installing and using apps, his social media account. Changtang reserve. of China has published a draft list of The collection of personal infor about 18 percent of respondents After 10 days, Feng, who had no “Tourists or explorers should ways that app operators illegally col mation of users under the age of 14 always read the privacy policy, previous experience crossing the obey the laws and regulations lect personal information. It is requires the consent of their guardi Locations, address lists and about 56 percent read it sometimes reserve, became separated from and not cross the reserve, to pro intended to serve as a reference for an. mobile phone numbers were the and about 26 percent never read it. the others and got lost on the fro tect one of the largest nature authorities to assess apps and pun The draft will be open for public main items excessively collected. Wang Sixin, director of the center zen plateau. reserves in the world,” the bureau ish those found guilty of miscon comment until May 26. Other include photos, property for cyberlaw and intellectual prop Li and Jin continued riding said. duct. The China Consumers Associa information, transaction records, erty at Communication University and exited the reserve on April 17. Changtang Nature Reserve Illegal behaviors include failing to tion issued a report in November on online browsing records, education of China, said the list, in specifying The next day, after finding that covers about 290,000 square remind users to read privacy poli the protection of personal informa information and vehicle informa illegal behaviors, provides a stan Feng hadn’t gotten out, they kilometers, and is more than cies when they install or use the tion by 100 popular mobile apps. tion, according to the report. dard for app operators to check and called police for help. 5,000 meters above sea level. It apps, and collecting personal infor About 90 of the apps were suspected According to another report from correct their procedures. Four police stations in the has many rare species, including mation for illegitimate purposes. of overcollecting personal informa the association in August based on It is also conducive to building an Tibet autonomous region sent the Tibetan antelope, wild yak Apps must specify why they are tion. 5,458 questionnaires from app equal relationship between the out officers in a search that lasted and lynx. asking users for sensitive informa Apps mentioned in the report users, about 85 percent of those sur operators and users, he said, as well 18 days. On Sunday, rescuers To protect them, Tibet set up 73 tion, such as an ID number or credit include Qunar, an online travel com veyed had personal information as a guide to help users protect found Feng in a remote area ranger stations around the card number, and are barred from pany; bikesharing platform Ofo; leaked, including for sales calls, themselves. under the jurisdiction of Gol reserve to patrol and manage the collecting personal information photoediting company Meitu; Ali phone fraud and spam. mud, Qinghai province. area. without the users’ consent. pay; and Migu Video. Nearly 70 percent of respondents Xinhua contributed to this story.