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Yang Hongwei, inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of East China's Shandong province, has been learning how to make kites from her grandfather Yang Tongke since 1982. She had been making and flying kites in Beijing and Shenzhen, before returning home to Yangjiabu village, or Yang family village, in Weifang city, where she began focusing on the craft in 1992. She developed the innovative approach of combining Chinese New Year paintings with kite making. The kites she creates are beautiful and also fly very well. Known as one of China's four largest kite-producing areas, Weifang of Shandong has over 300 kite-making companies with an annual output of nearly 2 billion yuan ($308.50 million). The domestic and international market shares of Weifang's kites are 85 percent and 75 percent, respectively, and the products are exported to over 40 countries and regions, including Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. Yang Hongwei has also been invited to tell Chinese … [Read more...] about Kites by Yang family help industry, nation soar

A total of 200 innovative drugs have been approved in China over the past five years, among which many have been included in public-funded medical insurance programs, according to a recent report by the Executive Committee of the Research & Development-based Pharmaceutical Association Committee under the China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment. Focusing on the innovative pharmaceutical industry and its role in the implementation of the Healthy China 2030 initiative, the report said about 33 percent of innovative drugs approved in the past five years are tumor treatments, and about 80 percent of the drugs, or 156 titles, are from multinational pharmaceutical companies. The innovative drugs registered by multinational pharmaceutical companies have also showed more diversity in the past five years, as the share of tumor treatments has dropped to 33 percent from 47 percent in the period from 2010 to 2015, while more drugs for diseases related to the nervous system, … [Read more...] about Pharma association issues report on innovative drugs