Best of China Healthcare News from the Past Two Weeks – China News

"my favorite in recent weeks is the guidance issued by the Central Propaganda Bureau about Liu Zhijun, 58, the recently disgraced transportation minister who ran up nearly $300 billion in debt creating China’s bullet train bubb…er…network. The propaganda bureau has issued this frustratingly brief guidance: “All media are not to report or hype the news that Liu Zhijun had 18 mistresses.”

One of the big topics being discussed these days in China's traditional and online media is the nation's $1.2 trillion or so holdings of American sovereign debt. S&P's downgrade of its U.S. debt credit rating a few weeks ago, along with expectations of another round of U.S.

Proof that the economy is creating new jobs. I'm hoping to see a translation of his hopefully soon-to-be-started Tianya blog on Veggie Discourse any day now.

Recently a post titled “Quintessence of contents of China Central Television’s News Broadcast in the past 30 years” is being circulated in Chinese blogosphere. Using 20 fill-in-the-blank sentences, it sums up the News Broadcast’s rhetoric full of boilerplate and formality that has remained unchanged for decades.

Last week the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health published a study based on data in the 2008 National Health Services Survey of China, which found that falls in the home are the leading cause of injury among elderly in China.

Three weeks before Beijing hosts the Olympics, two weeks after Zheng Jie stormed Wimbledon, and the same week that Yao Ming returned to action with the Chinese national team, Sports Illustrated China put on its cover a tennis player who hasn't played a professional match in four years and never won a Grand Slam.

Riding on the coattails of the Tibet riots a few weeks ago, Xinjiang is now hitting international news outlets because of protests in Khotan. The New Dominion looks at the flawed perspective the media provides when it elects to analyze Xinjiang through the Tibet lens, by considering historical, cultural, and geographical factors.

I wrap up my three week travels through central China with a stop in Xi'an. Then I reflect on the past three weeks in Beijing, rural Henan province, and the mountains of Hubei province.

Job losses triggered by the global financial crisis have driven some 20 million Chinese workers from cities back to their rural homelands, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency ... in related news, I can now sleep past 6:30 for lack of construction work.