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political mutual trust and expanded practical cooperation in a wide range of areas.
China has become Tanzania's largest trading partner and second largest source of investment. Bilateral trade reached 2.47 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 15.2 percent year on year.
After Tanzania, Xi will also travel to South Africa and the Republic of the Congo. In South Africa, he will attend the fifth BRICS summit in the port city of Durban on March 26-27, the first to be held on the African continent.
The emerging-economy group of BRICS consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Regulating property prices: More cities get in on the act
04-01-2013 20:15 BJT
By CCTV reporter Wu Haojun
It is a coverage on a recent hot topic - China’s over-heated property market. Local governments have announced detailed real estate regulations following the central government’s recent plan to cool down the market. While this has had a mixed response, the fact that the growth in the average price of housing accelerated in March, underscores the challenge the government is up against.
Following Beijing and Shanghai’s lead, a string of local governments have come out with their own plans to control the volatile housing markets in their own regions.
But the central government’s requirement that they provide \regulations\For example, Nanjing’s \ estate market composed of exactly 154 characters.
Many cities haven’t touched on the issues in focus, such as whether to impose a 20% home resale tax, increased down payment for second and more homes or raised mortgage rates.
But the gist is clear. Most cities have pledged to limit the increase in prices of new properties below the cities’ per capita disposable income targets.
However, not everyone is confident that this will work out.
Tu Tengjing, real estate businessman, said: \that if a 20% home resale tax is levied, buyers will just swarm to the new homes market. And prices of new homes will skyrocket.\
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By vowing to cool the market down, the government new policy, to some extent, has pushed the buyers and sellers to complete their deals as quickly as possible before the new regulations kicked in. According to the China Real Estate Index System, prices of second-hand homes rose 2.81% from February this year. On a
year-on-year basis, second-hand home prices rose 18.06% in March. Jiang Yuping, deputy dir. of Nanjing Equity Market Office, said: \have seen about 7 or 8 times more real estate transactions this month. We’ve had to work overtime to deal with the increased volumes. But we expect the number of transactions to taper off soon.\
Many cities did see fewer transactions immediately after the new regulations came out.
A Tianjin resident said: \a home at the moment.\
A Tianjin resident said: \ wait and see.\
The central government had been trying to put brakes on the fast moving property market for the past year. And now it has finally come out with a plan to do so. It remains to be seen what long term impact this will have on China’s real estate market in the coming years.
China: Little known about H7N9 bird flu
04-01-2013 07:37 BJT
By CCTV reporter Han Peng
Although there have only been a few cases so far found in China, it has trigged people’s’ concern. The National Health and Family
Commission and top medical experts are answering key questions for the public. has more.
A new type of infectious virus, and we have little knowledge of its virulence and potential for spreading.
Feng Zijian, Director of China Public Health Emergency Center, said, “In the three cases we found, two of them had been related to birds or chickens. But in the third case, he hadn’t left his home for two weeks before he started to get a fever. So based on what we have now, we still don’t know what the source of the infection was.”
That means medical workers can’t tell us yet what we can do to prevent ourselves from being infected. And there are no vaccines against the H7N9 bird flu virus either at home or abroad.
On the website of National Health and Family Planning Commission, the government has posted in detail what they know so far.
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The good thing is no cases of human-to-human infection have been found yet.
It says the authorities are closely monitoring the development,
gathering resources to treat the patients and investigating the virus. But only 3 cases have been confirmed of having the H7N9 virus, so the information available for research is very limited.
And why have the deaths of the two patients over 2 weeks ago been released to the public so late? The ministry says it’s because the new disease has yet to be included in the Monitoring and Reporting System of Infectious Diseases.
CCTV reporter Han Peng said, \government has dealt with two major nation-wide outbreaks of
infectious diseases. SARS in 2003, and H1N1 flu in 2009. Since then, the country has set up an emergency response system. It’s hoped that this time, if necessary, the government will have a plan to contain the disease and make sure over a billion people across the country will enjoy health and sense of security. \
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