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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
The anti-malarial compound Artemisinin, discovery of which won Dr. Tu Youyou China's first Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine this year, has not resulted in big profits for Chinese pharmaceutical companies.
Guilin Pharma Limited, affiliated to Shanghai-listed Fosun Pharma, is the only Chinese firm on the World Health Organization's list of recommended providers of the anti-malarial drug. The drug is extracted from a Chinese herb.
With the exception of Guilin Pharma Limited, traditional Chinese medicine producers are still barred from sending their products to the international market because they lack certification by major international agencies of the World Health Organization, the United States and the European Union.
China has 80 percent of the world's materials for extracting Artemisinin. However, most traditional medicine producers can only sell the raw materials to foreign companies for marginal profits. Their own Artemisinin-containing products may not directly enter the global market.
Guilin Pharma Limited has sold 24 million doses of Artemisinin to the global market over the past three years, benefitting 3 million people, with 90 percent in Africa.
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
The vice chancellor of the University of Oxford Ralph Waller says the heart of education is friendship.
Waller made the remarks in Beijing during his visit to introduce a new program to identify experienced talents in the Asia-Pacific region as potential visiting scholars.
The program is open to any senior personnel in education and business, as well as entrepreneurs.
Ralph told journalists that professors and students are both on the same side. Professors are not constantly assessing the students, or vice versa. They work together.
He said a good university needs good professors to attract good students; and friendship between the professors and the students makes a big difference.
Oxford has 38 different colleges. The largest number of overseas students at Oxford comes from America, followed by China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping acknowledged the education exchanges between the two countries during his recent visit to Britain.
Ralph said education is not just about reading, writing and thinking. It is about making friends and sparkling ideas.
