A new mother sensing a business opportunity amid China's tainted dairy food scandal has caused fresh controversy by offering to breast feed other children -- at a price.
The 32-year-old woman surnamed Huang said she had been producing more milk than her 3-month-old son could consume and she would sell the surplus in a breastfeeding service for 300 yuan a day.
However, her advertisement on the Internet has aroused a storm of criticism among conservative Chinese.
"I know there has been criticism on the Internet, but I have stayed cool about this. Everybody can talk freely on the Internet, and what they say is their own business. I don't care," said Huang.
"Also my husband fully supports for me on this."
Huang, who lives in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, said she had received about 30 phone calls from prospective clients by Sunday, but had no takers.
She preferred customers to live with her, or rent a house nearby, which could cost about 1,000 yuan a month, to allow their babies to benefit from the freshness of the milk. "Human milk should be consumed within half an hour, as it starts to turn after that," she said.
Otherwise they could leave their children with her for the day.
If prospective customers had doubts about her own health or the safety of her milk, Huang said she could go with them to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination.
"I have plenty of milk and my new born child cannot take it all," she said in her on-line ad under the name "Bushisgood", a pseudonmym used by her nephew, who had placed the ad. on the tianyaclub.com bulletin board at 9:23 a.m. on Saturday at her request.
"Every day, I had to dispose of more than two kilograms milk, which was a great pity," said Huang. "Too much milk made me feel uncomfortable, and I had to get up every night to express it."
Huang had read news stories of "nannies in some southern cities such as Shenzhen, who could have a month salary of more than 18,000 yuan".
"I can feed two more children, who will be fed first as the clients," she said.
Meanwhile, Huang's ad. has triggered a debate on the Tianyaclub bulletin board.
An Internet user named "Puffing smoke rings" said "the mother is crazy", but "Naked Huanghou" supported her, saying, "Modern society is full of business opportunities and it's up to you what you make of them."
Others questioned the 300-yuan price. Some thought "the product" was worth the price since there was too much tainted baby milk in the market, but others said it was too expensive.
As for whether the mother's "business" was legal, Yang Yongtao, a nutrition department director at a Chengdu hospital, said China had no laws forbidding it.
"Breast milk is good for babies and is recommended by the government," Yang said.
However, he also reminded the buyers to check the health of mothers, who could carry infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B.
More than 6,200 infants had developed kidney stones and four infants have died after drinking baby formula tainted with melamine, a chemical illegally added to give false protein readings in tests.
Source:Xinhua
Monday, September 22, 2008
2008 Int'l Confucius Cultural Festival to be held in Qufu
The 2008 China International Confucius Cultural Festival will be held from September 27 to 29 in Qufu, Shandong province.
Confucius was a great educator, philosopher and the founder of the Confucian school of ancient China born in Qufu City. His idea of "harmony is precious" and "seeking harmony without uniformity" has great practical significance of promoting the harmonious development of the world today.
By People's Daily Online
Confucius was a great educator, philosopher and the founder of the Confucian school of ancient China born in Qufu City. His idea of "harmony is precious" and "seeking harmony without uniformity" has great practical significance of promoting the harmonious development of the world today.
By People's Daily Online
Olympic venues open to tourists for China's National Day holiday
The Olympic venues will open to tourists during the week-long National Day holiday between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5, an official told a news briefing on Monday.
Venues, including the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium, the "Water Cube" National Aquatics Center and the National Gymnasium, would be open to the public as they appeared during the Games, said Zhang Huiguang, the Beijing Tourism Bureau head.
Those venues will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.. Ticket prices range from 20 yuan to 50 yuan. A pass for all venues costs 100 yuan, he said.
The optimum tourist capacity in the Olympic venues is 77,500 and the maximum capacity is 250,000, he said.
A "Magic Water Cube" symphony concert will debut on Sept. 29 in that venue and cultural exhibitions will be displayed in the area.
Beijing is seeking ways to make better use of the 12 new venues built for the Olympics, with plans to host major international sporting and cultural events.
The Bird's Nest has become home to the Beijing Guo'an Football Club and the Water Cube would probably become the largest aquatic recreation center in Beijing.
Source: Xinhua
Venues, including the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium, the "Water Cube" National Aquatics Center and the National Gymnasium, would be open to the public as they appeared during the Games, said Zhang Huiguang, the Beijing Tourism Bureau head.
Those venues will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.. Ticket prices range from 20 yuan to 50 yuan. A pass for all venues costs 100 yuan, he said.
The optimum tourist capacity in the Olympic venues is 77,500 and the maximum capacity is 250,000, he said.
A "Magic Water Cube" symphony concert will debut on Sept. 29 in that venue and cultural exhibitions will be displayed in the area.
Beijing is seeking ways to make better use of the 12 new venues built for the Olympics, with plans to host major international sporting and cultural events.
The Bird's Nest has become home to the Beijing Guo'an Football Club and the Water Cube would probably become the largest aquatic recreation center in Beijing.
Source: Xinhua
Beijing expects more tourists in first post-Olympic holiday
More than 7 million tourists are expected to visit Beijing in the upcoming National Day holiday, the first "golden week" holiday after the Olympics and Paralympics.
Ding Xiangyang, deputy mayor of Beijing, told a working conference of the municipal bureau of tourism on Monday that it would be a nearly 18 percent increase from the same period last year, when 5.94 million people, including residents and tourists from other parts of China, visited the national capital during the holiday.
The Olympic Games and the following Paralympics have fully demonstrated a venerable and yet modern China to the world and greatly improved the sector's service level, Shao Qiwei, head of the National Tourism Administration, has said.
Many people were keen to come to Beijing as their travel plans had been delayed during August, the usually busy travel season, said Zhang Lingjun, deputy head of domestic trip department of China International Travel Service.
Source: Xinhua
Ding Xiangyang, deputy mayor of Beijing, told a working conference of the municipal bureau of tourism on Monday that it would be a nearly 18 percent increase from the same period last year, when 5.94 million people, including residents and tourists from other parts of China, visited the national capital during the holiday.
The Olympic Games and the following Paralympics have fully demonstrated a venerable and yet modern China to the world and greatly improved the sector's service level, Shao Qiwei, head of the National Tourism Administration, has said.
Many people were keen to come to Beijing as their travel plans had been delayed during August, the usually busy travel season, said Zhang Lingjun, deputy head of domestic trip department of China International Travel Service.
Source: Xinhua
Shijiazhuang party chief sacked over milk scandal
The party chief of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, was sacked here on Monday over the tainted milk powder scandal.
The dismissal of Wu Xianguo from his post as secretary of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China was decided by the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee, according to the committee's organization department.
Wu was also dismissed as member of the standing committee of CPC Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee.
The provincial party committee said Wu did not properly deal with the delayed reporting by dairy producer Sanlu Group over the incident and thus should share responsibility.
Dairy giant Sanlu, based in Shijiazhuang, was the first company exposed in the tainted dairy products scandal, which has sickened nearly 1,3000 infants and killed three.
Source: Xinhua
The dismissal of Wu Xianguo from his post as secretary of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China was decided by the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee, according to the committee's organization department.
Wu was also dismissed as member of the standing committee of CPC Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee.
The provincial party committee said Wu did not properly deal with the delayed reporting by dairy producer Sanlu Group over the incident and thus should share responsibility.
Dairy giant Sanlu, based in Shijiazhuang, was the first company exposed in the tainted dairy products scandal, which has sickened nearly 1,3000 infants and killed three.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese astronauts for Shenzhou-7 mission arrive at launch center
A panel of six Chinese astronauts arrived at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province on Sunday, making the last-minute preparations for the country's third manned space mission.
Taking a special flight to the remote center, three qualified spacemen and three substitutes said they had "full confidence to successfully accomplish the mission" after various trainings and tests.
The Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower are vertically transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Sept. 20, 2008. The transfer finished at 3:15 p.m.on Saturday, marking the final stage of the launching preparation.
The astronauts will pilot spacecraft Shenzhou-7 to carry out the mission during which one of them will spacewalk outside the capsule.
The spacecraft has been planned to be launched at an appropriate time between Sept. 25 and 30 after the spaceship, its carrier Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower were vertically transferred to the launch pad on Saturday.
The Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower are vertically transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Sept. 20, 2008. The transfer finished at 3:15 p.m.on Saturday, marking the final stage of the launching preparation.
All the six astronauts prepared for Shenzhou-7 were once trained and tested at Jiuquan center more than two weeks ago when they had a live experience to enter the spaceship and learned the mission's whole process in a all-ready simulation.
The six spacemen now had moved to their special accommodation to be quarantined and to adjust their psychological conditions for the mission.
Source:Xinhua
Taking a special flight to the remote center, three qualified spacemen and three substitutes said they had "full confidence to successfully accomplish the mission" after various trainings and tests.
The Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower are vertically transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Sept. 20, 2008. The transfer finished at 3:15 p.m.on Saturday, marking the final stage of the launching preparation.
The astronauts will pilot spacecraft Shenzhou-7 to carry out the mission during which one of them will spacewalk outside the capsule.
The spacecraft has been planned to be launched at an appropriate time between Sept. 25 and 30 after the spaceship, its carrier Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower were vertically transferred to the launch pad on Saturday.
The Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower are vertically transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Sept. 20, 2008. The transfer finished at 3:15 p.m.on Saturday, marking the final stage of the launching preparation.
All the six astronauts prepared for Shenzhou-7 were once trained and tested at Jiuquan center more than two weeks ago when they had a live experience to enter the spaceship and learned the mission's whole process in a all-ready simulation.
The six spacemen now had moved to their special accommodation to be quarantined and to adjust their psychological conditions for the mission.
Source:Xinhua
Vice President calls for public science awareness
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has called for greater public science awareness and encouraged Chinese scientists to get more involved in science education.
"Promoting science awareness is an important task in implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development," Xi said in Beijing on Sunday, which was National Science and Technology Popularization Day.
Xi, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, joined children to conduct science experiments, and encouraged them to learn about resource saving.
Xi also visited exhibitions on energy saving technology, including the use of solar energy and the production of diesel from waste cooking oil.
"This year is crucial for the energy saving target set for the 11th five-year plan period," said Xi, adding that such green technology should be further promoted and energy-saving efforts should be enforced.
The government has set a goal to reduce energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent and major pollutants discharges by 10 percent from 2006 to 2010.
Xi also called on the public to improve awareness of disaster prevention and relief so as to minimize damage caused by natural disasters.
Events to mark National Science and Technology Popularization Day will be held from Sept. 20 to 26.
Source: Xinhua
"Promoting science awareness is an important task in implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development," Xi said in Beijing on Sunday, which was National Science and Technology Popularization Day.
Xi, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, joined children to conduct science experiments, and encouraged them to learn about resource saving.
Xi also visited exhibitions on energy saving technology, including the use of solar energy and the production of diesel from waste cooking oil.
"This year is crucial for the energy saving target set for the 11th five-year plan period," said Xi, adding that such green technology should be further promoted and energy-saving efforts should be enforced.
The government has set a goal to reduce energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent and major pollutants discharges by 10 percent from 2006 to 2010.
Xi also called on the public to improve awareness of disaster prevention and relief so as to minimize damage caused by natural disasters.
Events to mark National Science and Technology Popularization Day will be held from Sept. 20 to 26.
Source: Xinhua
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