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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
China has made aviation history with its first domestically-produced large passenger aircraft which has been unveiled in Shanghai.
The C919 aircraft was developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. When it is cleared for commercial use, it is expected to compete with the updated Airbus 320 and Boeing's new-generation 737.
The C919 has 158 seats, a standard range of 4,075 kilometers and an extended range of 5,600 kilometers.
With its maiden flight scheduled for next year, however, and at least another three years of test flights, it will take some time before the single-aisle jet can fly commercial air routes around the world.
China is the world's largest civil aviation market, with its 21 largest airports seeing annual throughput exceeding 10 million passengers and a fleet of more than 3,000 aircraft, which is dominated by Boeing and Airbus.
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China's decision to abandon the decades-long one-child policy has drawn significant attention from media outlets worldwide.
The BBC said couples will now be allowed to have two children, citing a report from China's official Xinhua News Agency. It says that the decision to allow families to have two children was designed "to improve the balanced development of the population" and to deal with an aging population.
The New York Times article quoted experts as saying that the cost and difficulty of child-rearing are likely to deter many eligible couples from having two children despite the relaxed rules.
A Reuters' article also focused on the economic impacts, particularly the immediate one. Under the title "China shares up after one-child policy change, dairy stocks jump", the article said Chinese stocks were bolstered after the party announced the government would partially relax its regulation on population.
The Reuters' article is echoed by Agence France Presse, AFP, which reported stock investors cheered the news, pushing up listed Chinese companies which offer products for children.
According to the AFP report, even Disney could have a finger in the pie. Walt Disney chief Robert Iger said China's scrapping its one-child policy is "good timing" as the U.S. entertainment giant prepares to open a theme park in Shanghai.
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Questions have been raised in the meat industries of China and other countries about a recent World Health Organization report linking meat consumption to cancer.
The China Meat Association has said that meat products contain rich protein and are very important to maintaining the normal function of the human body. It stressed that a balanced diet is a primary factor to maintaining health; and eating what it called a proper amount of safe meat is beneficial to health.
According to a report released by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, processed meats including sausages, ham and hot dogs contribute to bowel cancer, and red meat probably does, too.
It placed processed meat into its Group 1 category of carcinogens. Other substances in the group include alcohol and tobacco.
The China Meat Association argues that research has shown that cancers are caused by multiple factors, including environmental pollution, virus infection and radiation, and further research is needed to define the relationship between eating meat products and cancer.
The average meat consumption for Chinese people was 64 kilograms last year, almost twice as much as that of 1995.
