Since the end of 20th century, African businessmen have gradually moved from Hong Kong to Guangzhou Xiaobei and Guangyuan West Road. However, with occurrence epidemic, due policy, economic, social reasons, commerce trade in Guangzhou, China Africa undergone great changes. Many previous migration laws patterns changed, this paper focuses on way maintaining China-Africa after epidemic directions ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the total annual cost due to Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB)-related diseases imposed on each patient and his/her family in Beijing and Guangzhou, China. METHODS Economic burden of CHB-related diseases (CHB, compensated cirrhosis, decompensated cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma) were examined. A retrospective cohort of 328 patients in Beijing and 271 in Guangzhou were id...

Dengue is a fast spreading mosquito-borne disease that affects more than half of the population worldwide. An unprecedented outbreak happened in Guangzhou, China in 2014, which contributed 52 percent of all dengue cases that occurred in mainland China between 1990 and 2015. Our previous analysis, based on a deterministic model, concluded that the early timing of the first imported case that tri...

Different climates in different regions have an important influence on the latent heat performance of PCMs, especially outdoor temperature and solar irradiance. This paper describes addition PCMs outside archives warehouse Guangzhou Lhasa, change energy conservation exterior enclosure summer winter. In typical days Guangzhou, with a phase 30°C should be added to reduce indoor cooling load by 23...

Aerosol optical properties in a rural environment near the mega-city Guangzhou, China: implications for regional air pollution and radiative forcing R. M. Garland, H. Yang, O. Schmid, D. Rose, A. Nowak, P. Achtert, A. Wiedensohler, N. Takegawa, K. Kita, Y. Miyazaki, Y. Kondo, M. Hu, M. Shao, L. Zeng, Y. Zhang, M. O. Andreae, and U. Pöschl Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Che...

An investigation of gaseous elemental mercury concentration in atmosphere was conducted at Beijing and Guangzhou urban, Yangtze Delta regional sites and China Global Atmosphere Watch Baseline Observatory (CGAWBO) in Mt. Waliguan of remote continental area of China. High temporal resolved data were obtained using automated mercury analyzer RA-915+. Results showed that the overall hourly mean Hg0...

This study aimed to develop and validate a simple risk score for detecting individuals with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) among the Southern Chinese population. A sample of participants aged ≥20 years and without known diabetes from the 2006-2007 Guangzhou diabetes cross-sectional survey was used to develop separate risk scores for men and women. The participants completed a self-administered ...

Chlamydia spp. are obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria that cause a wide range of significant diseases in humans and animals worldwide, resulting in significant economic losses. Chlamydial infection in cattle has been reported in many countries including China. However, there has been no survey of chlamydial infection of dairy cattle in Guangzhou, southern China. The objective of the ...

BACKGROUND This study interviewed community pharmacists in Shanghai and Guangzhou for their perception of the popular categories of over-the-counter (OTC) Chinese medicines and the factors affecting customer preferences for OTC Chinese medicines. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out in six main administrative districts in Guangzhou and eight main administrative districts in Shangh...

BACKGROUND Considerable sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges have been reported among rural-to-urban migrants in China. Predictors thereof are urgently needed to develop targeted interventions. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study assessed determinants of unmet need for contraception using semi-structured interviews in two cities in China: Guangzhou and Qingdao. RESULTS Between J...