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2 months ago | 
xpresschronicle.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Zixu Wang
When a group of prominent Chinese doctors publicly raised worries last week about the quality of domestic drugs, China’s government sent officials to investigate. But now data about the drugs that appeared on a government website as recently as Friday is no longer publicly available. A social media post from a doctor who scrutinized the data has been taken down.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Zixu Wang
When a group of prominent Chinese doctors publicly raised worries last week about the quality of domestic drugs, China's government sent officials to investigate. But now data about the drugs that appeared on a government website as recently as Friday is no longer publicly available. A social media post from a doctor who scrutinized the data has been taken down.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Zixu Wang
A rare display of public anger is unfolding in China over the quality of domestically produced drugs. A prominent Shanghai surgeon pointed to anesthetics that do not put patients to sleep. A respected Beijing cardiologist questioned blood pressure medication that failed to regulate. A former editor at a leading online health platform went as far as to accuse domestic drugmakers of fraud.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Zixu Wang
To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies an act of patriotism. And yet, for the third year in a row, its population got smaller. Not even a surprise uptick in the number of babies born, a first in seven years, could reverse the course of an aging and declining population. China is staring down a longer term baby bust that is rippling through the economy.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Zixu Wang
At the heart of this new push is Hengqin, a Chinese island separated from Macau by a river. Image In a sprawling new immigration complex at Hengqin Port, officers for China and Macau sit side by side, waving people over a new border. More than 16,000 Macau citizens have moved to Hengqin in recent months. A train made its maiden journey from the city into Macau this month. There is even talk of creating a Macau Stock Exchange in its financial district.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Julie Creswell |Zixu Wang
Starbucks has a China problem: coffee and tea drinkers who want more for less. Vivian Yan tried her first Starbucks coffee eight years ago. She was desperate for a jolt of caffeine at work, and the store was nearby. "It didn't necessarily mean I love Starbucks," she said, "nor was it my first choice."These days, she thinks a cup of Starbucks is a little too expensive and prefers to get her coffee from McDonald's.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | John Yoon |Zixu Wang
The police in China said on Tuesday that 35 people had died after a man drove a vehicle into a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai, official media reported. A police report from the Zhuhai Municipal Public Security Bureau said 43 others had been injured after a man drove into people who were exercising at a city sports center on Monday evening, according to the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Yuqi Zhang |Liang Chu |Zixu Wang |Jincheng Hu
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Yuxin Yang |Abby Jerger |Song Feng |Zixu Wang
AbstractRecent years have witnessed the remarkable progress of deep learning within the realm of scientific disciplines, yielding a wealth of promising outcomes. A prominent challenge within this domain has been the task of predicting enzyme function, a complex problem that has seen the development of numerous computational methods, particularly those rooted in deep learning techniques.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | John Yoon |Zixu Wang
Typhoon Yagi made landfall in southern China on Friday as it forced more than 1 million evacuations, shuttered schools and businesses, disrupted travel and raised alarms about the risks of landslides and floods. Yagi, one of 2024’s most powerful storms, made landfall in the island province of Hainan at 4:20 p.m. local time, according to China’s National Meteorological Center.
