Actor Huang Xiaoming plays a game with children at the launch ceremony of an audio book, The Bravest Boy I Know, in Beijing on Tuesday. The book, released by the UNAIDS China office, aims to combat AIDS-related discrimination, especially against children. Provided to China Daily The UNAIDS China office released on Tuesday The Bravest Boy I Know, a free Chinese-language audio book, to raise awareness and fight AIDS-related discrimination, particularly against children. Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, a UNAIDS national goodwill ambassador, provides the voice for central character Xiaoming, an 8-year-old HIV sufferer. The book tells the story of a friendship between Xiaoming and Xiaoli, who is HIV free, and sends the message that with treatment and support from families, friends and school, children with HIV/AIDS can have a normal and happy childhood. It was released to mark Zero Discrimination Day, which falls annually on March 1, and can be downloaded for free from the UNAIDS China website. These are children who were born with HIV. They are young people yearning for a better future. The more I listen to their stories, the more I'm eager to do something to help them, Huang said at the book launch in Beijing. I want more people to know about this community instead of avoiding and discriminating against them. Pride Chigwedere, senior policy and strategy adviser for UNAIDS China, added: Discrimination will not disappear without actively addressing the ignorance, practices and beliefs that fuel it. Ending discrimination requires action from everyone. About 450,000 people are living with HIV in China, with most HIV-positive children contracting the virus from their infected mother, central government statistics show. Many grow up facing some form of discrimination, either at school, in the healthcare system or from society. Linfen Red Ribbon School in Linfen, Shanxi province, caters to children with HIV/AIDS and even arranges a separate national college entrance exam for its 16 students. Guo Xiaoping, principal of the school and former president of Linfen Third People's Hospital, said the testing arrangement was done out of care for the HIV-positive children. They all need mental peace to handle this important exam, he said. In fact, cross-generational infections can be virtually eliminated thanks to a treatment known as the prevention of mother to child transmission, experts say. Infected pregnant women using the method can substantially lower the chances of giving birth to HIV-positive babies. Starting in 2015, the central government began providing the method for free nationwide. The government has set the goal of eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2020. The rate currently stands at around 5 percent. Contact the writers at [email protected] rubber bracelets animals
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Warehouses of liquid natural gas in Zhejiang province on Aug 8, 2018. [Photo/VCG] The transfer of responsibility for tackling climate change to the country's top environmental watchdog will help promote and improve the critical process, said an official. Li Gao, director-general of climate change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, made the remark during a news conference on Wednesday in Beijing after his department was transferred to the ministry from the National Development and Reform Commission. After years of effort, China has achieved remarkable results in tackling climate change. The carbon intensity, or the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions produced to gross domestic product, fell 46 percent last year from 2005 levels. This shows that China is attaining its goal of reducing the intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, two years ahead of schedule, Li said. This lays a good foundation for the country to achieve the goal it set for 2030, Li said. The shift of duties of tackling climate change to the ministry helps better coordinate and collectively promote the country's efforts to control greenhouse gases and other pollutants, he said. The key task in tackling climate change is to control carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Coal, a major source of energy in China, is a significant contributor to air pollution, he said. The country has limited the expansion of industries with high energy consumption and pollution, promoted use of clean energy, and accelerated the adjustment of energy generation in its action plans for air pollution control in the past few years. These measures are also helping contribute to greenhouse emissions control, he said. Air pollution control measures in recent years have helped reduce the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent of 175 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. The actions to improve air quality have played a significant role in helping us realize the goal of tackling climate change, he said. Meanwhile, controls over greenhouse gas emissions have also contributed to reduced air pollution. The reduction of one ton of carbon dioxide also means a decrease of 3.2 kilograms of sulfur dioxide and 2.8 kg of nitric oxide, he added. The shift to the ministry provides better coordination in tackling climate change and controlling air pollution, he said. We will collaboratively promote the work ... in our monitoring and setting of targets, as well as in policy drafting, Li added.
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