the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) is developing into a major regional institution in the heart of central eurasia. to make any predictions about the sco, one must examine factors contributing to russian and chinese foreign policy behaviors in central asia. does the seductive presumption of a looming battle for control of eurasia smell of a new “great game” and great power rivalry? ans...

health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. in their paper “shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000,” gusmano et al suggest that shanghai’s health policy-makers have been successful in...

China has enjoyed high economic growth for three decades since the initiative of economic reform in 1978. This growth has however been driven mainly by labour-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing activities. Has innovation played a role in China’s economic growth? What are the determinants of innovation in the Chinese economy? These are some of the questions which are to be explored in this...

1 College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China, 2 College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China, 3 Key Laboratory of New Drug Delivery System of Chinese Materia Medica, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 4 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Me...

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug Discovery of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Natural Medicine) and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resource Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, 3 Z...

1 Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Advanced Computer Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China, 3 CAS Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4 Depar...

Department of Acupuncture and Massage, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, China Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Futian TCM Hospital, Shenzhen, China Department of Rehabilitation, The ...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Enhui He, Fei Pan, Guangchao Li, Jingjing Li 1 Nankai University School of Medicine, Tianjin, China, 2 Chinese PLA General Hospital and Chinese PLAMedical School, Beijing, China, 3 School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 4 Beijing Friends...

Background: Rehabilitation is cornerstone for the recovery of stroke patients. This lecture focuses on the current status of stroke rehabilitation in China. Methods: Selective review of papers published by Chinese authors. Results: A new system which is called “standardized tertiary rehabilitation” was established in China and has better effect on the recovery of motor function, cognitive funct...