BEIJING Adidas Ultra Boost Homme Verte Noir Pas Cher , Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 1.1 billion Chinese people are either smoking or being exposed to secondhand smoke, an official said Saturday.
About 356 million people above the age of 15 are smokers, while another 738 are passively smoking, said Jiang Yuan, director of Tobacco Control Office of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Smoking-caused cancers and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases have imposed economic burden of more than 223.7 billion yuan (35.9 billion U.S. dollars) for people at or above the age of 35 Adidas Ultra Boost Homme Marine Blanche Pas Cher , she said.
"China has to adopt comprehensive, long-term and effective tobacco-control measures," she said.
China is mulling a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco products, according to a draft regulation published on the legislative affairs office of the State Council website in November.
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Also in November, the legislature of Beijing Municipality adopted an anti-smoking legislation to ban smoking in all indoor public places, workplaces and public transport vehicles. It is scheduled to become effective on June 1 next year.
LONDON Homme Adidas Ultra Boost ATR Mid Triple Blanche Pas Cher , Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Birmingham was Thursday named as the British government's choice to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
It beat Liverpool in the race to stage the event, after the organising federation started a search for a new host city after Durban pulled out.
Britain's second biggest city will now face competition from rival bids made by Australia, Canada and Malaysia.
The British government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) had sought potential bidders in Britain to host the showpiece event after the South African city pulled out. It became a two-horse race between Birmingham and Liverpool.
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Birmingham's plans also include the building of Britain's largest permanent athletics stadium, along with four indoor arenas.
The cost of staging the games in Birmingham would be as much as 900 million U.S. dollars with 75 percent coming from the national government and the rest from Birmingham's city hall.
HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said it is working to accelerate buyouts of repeatedly flooded properties in Houston area, according to local media on Thursday.
Houston Chronicle newspaper reported on its website that the buyouts following Hurricane Harvey aimed at helping Houstonians escape perennially soggy neighborhoods and keeping the federal government from paying to rebuild homes time and time again.
FEMA is receiving thousands of Harvey claims and paying out millions of dollars every day. By the end of Wednesday Adidas ACE 16+ PureControl Ultra Boost Homme Noir Pas Cher , more than 80,000 Texans had filed claims and FEMA had issued about 76 million U.S. dollars in advance payments.
Harris County where Houston is located, has already bought out more homeowners than any county in the country with spending 225 million dollars in purchases over the last 20 years, according to FEMA.
Harvey blew ashore on Aug. 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, displacing more than one million and damaged some 200 Homme Adidas Ultra Boost Laceless Noir Pas Cher ,000 homes in a path of destruction that stretches for more than 300 miles (480 km). The Houston area has been devastated by severe flooding, after receiving about 1.4 meters of rain.
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The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) started its closing session Tuesday morning, at which a new CPC Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) will be elected.
Xi Jinping presided over the closing session.
More than 2,300 delegates and specially invited delegates are expected to pass resolutions on the report of the 18th CPC Central Committee, a work report of the CCDI and an amendment to the CPC Constitution.
At least 8 percent of nominees for candidates for members and alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC and candidates for members of the CCDI have been voted off in preliminary elections in the past days.
Discussions of 34 delegations on the report to the 19th CPC National Congress Adidas Ultra Boost Homme Noir Pas Cher , delivered by Xi on behalf of the 18th CPC Central Committee at the opening of the congress, were open to journalists at designated periods of time.
More than 3,000 journalists covered the congress. Among them, 1,818 are from overseas including Hong Kong SNS x Social Status x Adidas Ultra Boost Blanche Noir Pas Cher , Macao and Taiwan, 6.7 percent more than the 18th CPC National Congress. Foreign reporters come from 134 countries, 19.6 percent more than the previous congress.
The five-yearly congress, which opened on Oct. 18, was held during the decisive stage when China is building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and at a critical moment as socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.
The CPC has more than 89 million members.