Those of you interested in China’s food industry may want to check out a new paper discussing the current state of China’s retail food sector. The US Foreign Agricultural Service has a great collection of their Global Agricultural Information Network reports (called GAIN Reports). They recently published their new analysis of China’s retail food sector. The review is geared more towards how it affects US producers and exporters, but it has a lot of fascinating detail that will interest any Sinophile as well as China expat. Here are a couple highlights, as discussed on The Packer website (China’s retailers, at least, are fat and happy): …Continue reading: China’s Food Sector: Rapid Growth (No Surprise…)…
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I’ve touched a bit on the state of China’s public health care system; now there’s an outstanding 4-part series from China Healthcare Blog discussing the state of rural health care and how it affects the elderly. …Continue reading: China’s Rural Elderly: Good Access To Healthcare?…
The newish Beijing Healthcare Forum announces their next meeting, tomorrow night the 28th at Luce. This next meeting’s speaker will be Prof. William (Bill) Valentino, a recognized expert on sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Here’s the lowdown: …Continue reading: Beijing Healthcare Forum Meets Jan 28th… I find it fascinating that over 50% of men in China are smokers, while only about 5% of women are. Why such a huge discrepancy? These are massive questions for China’s public health teams: why do so many Chinese men smoke? Or you could ask the reverse questions; why do so few Chinese women smoke, and can we adapt their differing value systems to help men stop smoking? …Continue reading: Why Do So Many Chinese Men Smoke?… There’s an interesting new blog about China healthcare…called, easily enough, China Healthcare Blog. It’s a spinoff of their previous Asia Health Care blog. They have a good group of writers who write original and in-depth articles. One article that caught my eye this week was their mention and ongoing video discussion of a . . . → Continue Reading: A New Blog on China Healthcare |
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