XI'AN Cheap Gary Cahill Jersey , Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- China launched a new program Friday to help address poverty caused by illness.
The program, which will last until February, aims to use the slack farming season and the Spring Festival holiday when migrant workers return home, to figure out how many poor people have diseases and keep them updated with new policies, according to Xia Gengsheng from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Xia said that more than 50 percent of impoverished residents in 10 Chinese provinces fell into poverty due to illnesses, at the end of 2016.
China aims to lift all people above the poverty line -- per capita annual income of 2,300 yuan (348 U.S. dollars) -- in rural areas by 2020. Strong efforts have been made in helping the rural poor suffering from illnesses.
More than 4.2 million poor patients with serious or chronic diseases have been treated since last year. The family doctor system has expanded to include around 80 percent of those living under the poverty line.
Meanwhile Cheap Fikayo Tomori Jersey , more than 900 top hospitals have dispatched doctors to over 1,000 hospitals in poor counties, and developed a network of distance health care.
The UN warned on Wednesday that waste from discarded electronics like mobile phones, laptops and refrigerators is piling up worldwide, and it urged far better recycling of the often hazardous rubbish.
A full 44.7 million tons of so-called e-waste was generated around the world in 2016, up eight percent from two years earlier, according to a report from the UN’s International Telecommunication Union Cheap Ethan Ampadu Jersey , the UN University (UNU) and the International Solid Waste Association.
That’s the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers, the report noted, adding that the number was expected to swell “significantly” over coming decades.
According to the report, by 2021, the world will likely be cluttered with a full 52.2 million tons of such waste, which today consists mainly of fridges Cheap Eduardo Jersey , washing machines and other domestic appliances, but also increasingly mobile phones and computers.
At the same time, this waste, which can pose serious risks to human health and the environment, is rarely recycled or properly discarded, with most of it ending up at dumpsites or in incinerators.
Only 20 percent of all e-waste, or 8.9 tons Cheap Eden Hazard Jersey , generated last year was documented as properly recycled, while the fate of a full 76 percent of all e-waste around the globe is unknown, the report found.
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