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Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.
JERUSALEM, March 21 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has been trying to mediate an end to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, said on Monday that despite some progress big gaps remained between the sides.
ByteDance will also be reorganised into six units - TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin, work collaboration unit Lark, business services unit BytePlus, gaming unit Nuverse, and education tech unit Dali Education, Liang said in the memo.
ByteDance's Chinese products, including Douyin, news aggregator Toutiao, video-streaming platform Xigua, will be folded into the Douyin unit, which will take over all "information and service" operations in the Chinese market.
Only at that point, two weeks after my initial diagnosis, did I feel able to tell my children I had cancer. The day I discovered that the scans to check whether the cancer had spread to other parts of my body were clear was one of the happiest of my life.
China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.
Liang also said that Dali, which has undergone layoffs and product closures after China issued rules barring curriculum-based tutoring for profit website would provide services for education stakeholders such as artificial intelligence-powered learning, education for adults and smart hardware.
Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.
Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.
I will need to take it for many years — five, personal tutoring near me seven, ten, it isn't clear — but as someone who happily took the contraceptive pill for a great many years, that kind of long-term medication has never bothered me.
We must never forget the estimated 35,000 women living with metastatic breast cancer, or the 32 women who die prematurely every day. It felt like a miracle. I'd had what scientists call a ‘pathological complete response'.
BEIJING, Nov 2 (Reuters) - TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will step down as its parent ByteDance's chief financial officer (CFO) to focus on running the short video platform full time, according to an internal memo the company shared with Reuters.
SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.
Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.
It was a shock — although like most women, one I had half expected every time I had a mammogram — and I was frightened.
But one of the things you don't realise about breast cancer, until you are diagnosed with it, is the range of treatment for different tumours and how there are an ever-increasing number of options.
Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.
I'd been paranoid about such a diagnosis for a while because my mother had been treated for the disease twice, once in her early 50s and then again in her 60s, and so I had the nagging feeling that I was waiting my turn.
Fear does strange things to your brain. While an oncology professor tried to explain that it was a fast-growing, aggressive cancer and that I would need chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy — the whole shebang — I kept saying that I really shouldn't be there, that my family history really wasn't that bad.
For them, new treatments are still needed as they fight to stay alive long enough for the next scientific advance.
But most of us will emerge from our encounters with breast cancer scarred, sometimes emotionally traumatised and exhausted — but alive.
I was a single mother with a 13-year-old daughter.
I will never forget the first few weeks which followed; waking up drenched in sweat, adrenalin charging through my veins; the almost primeval fear that my life was about to end.
<img src="http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b8nature_characters_humanoids007.jpg&dl=1"; style="max-width:410px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />We aren't there yet, but according to Cancer Research UK, ten-year breast cancer survival rates in the UK have nearly doubled since the 1970s, from four in ten women surviving their disease beyond ten years to around eight in ten now.