Traditional cloth shoes such as tiger-head shoes and phoenix-eye shoes produced in Heze, Shandong province have become hot market items.In recent years, Heze's Mudan district has been promoting the development of the "Shandong handmade" industry by relying on traditional handicrafts such as traditional cloth shoes.?It has cultivated more than 10 related enterprises and more than 200 micro factories in rural areas, which helps increase employment and incomes for local villagers, and is injecting new vitality into rural vitalization.Villagers make traditional cloth shoes at a workshop in Anxing town, Mudan district, Heze on Dec 1. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]Traditional tiger-head shoes sell well in the market, and increase local villagers' incomes in Heze, Shandong province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]It's still customary in many rural areas to dress infants in embroidered tiger-head shoes with the hope that they will become as robust and dynamic as tigers. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn](adapted) Here is shan dong 編輯： 宋基金 閱讀量：322
Rescuer Zhang Zili transfers a two-month-old infant from quake-hit Wandong Village of Detuo Town in Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 6, 2022.A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Luding County and neighboring areas in Sichuan Province on Sept. 5, 2022. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)This photo taken on Sept. 18, 2022 shows a wetland that has been regenerated by unified allocation of the Yellow River's water resources in east China's Shandong Province.In recent years, the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve has made unwavering efforts to take ecological governance measures and carried out wetland restoration projects. (Xinhua/Fan Changguo)A Z-20 helicopter takes part in a flying display at the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 8, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Yongjin)The manned spaceship Shenzhou-15, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Nov. 29, 2022. (Xinhua/Ren Junchuan)This image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China shows the Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-14 crew taking a group picture with their thumbs up after a historic gathering in space on Nov. 30, 2022.The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-15 spaceship entered the country's space station and met with another astronaut trio on Nov. 30, 2022, a historic gathering that added the manpower at the in-orbit space lab to six for the first time. (Xinhua/Guo Zhongzheng)Tourists ride a ferris wheel at the top of the Canton Tower, a landmark in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Aug. 7, 2022. Tourist attractions that blend modernity with history are gaining popularity among visitors to Guangzhou, one of the top summer travel destinations in China. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)bit space lab to six for the first time. (Xinhua/Guo Zhongzheng)Firefighters put out fire in Jinyun Mountain of Beibei District in Chongqing, southwest China, Aug. 25, 2022. All open flames of the forest fires in Chongqing had been put out on Aug. 26, 2022, with no casualties reported. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)People from all walks of life in the national capital line the streets to see off their beloved Comrade Jiang Zemin, expressing their deep sorrow as the hearse journeys from the Chinese PLA General Hospital to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 5, 2022.The remains of Jiang Zemin, who passed away on Nov. 30, 2022, were cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing on Dec. 5, 2022.(Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)This photo taken on Dec. 9, 2022 shows the delivery ceremony of the first C919 large passenger aircraft in Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)Warplanes of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conduct operations during joint combat training exercises around the Taiwan Island, Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo by Wang Xinchao/Xinhua)This photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (L) and a beagle, which is the surrogate mother of the arctic wolf, at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.The cloned arctic wolf's donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland in 2006. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)(adapted and to be continued) Here is shan dong 編輯： 宋基金 閱讀量：3481
Medical workers run intravenous drips for patients at the fever clinic of China-Japan Friendship hospital in Beijing. [Photo by Wang Jing/chinadaily.com.cn]Patients needing treatment for COVID-19 will not have to foot pricey bills for hospitalization out of their own pockets until at least the end of March, according to authorities.Additionally, outpatient costs will be more generously refunded if incurred at smaller hospitals serving vast rural areas, they added.The policies were outlined in a circular released on Saturday by the National Healthcare Security Administration, the Ministry of Finance, the National Health Commission and the National Administration for Disease Prevention and Control.For the last few years, the State has settled all expenses for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 at centralized isolation facilities.Payment liability issues were only brought to the fore early last month, when health authorities allowed patients to be treated at any hospital of their choice.The circular said the State will continue to pay for hospitalization costs until at least March 31, as long as patients conform to the diagnosis and treatment plan for novel coronavirus infections, as COVID-19 has been officially known in China since Dec 26. The disease was previously called novel coronavirus pneumonia.Hospitalization costs, usually incurred by older patients in critical condition, will be collectively paid by the national medical aid program for families in financial difficulty, local finance authorities, and two State-run healthcare plans with almost universal coverage on the mainland — basic medical insurance and insurance for severe illnesses. Central finance pledged it will give compensation of up to 60 percent of local finance payment liabilities.However, the liabilities for outpatient spending vary.The circular said that COVID-19 patients seeking medical advice at Grade 1 hospitals, or grassroots medical institutions such as township hospitals, will have at least 70 percent of their spending covered by the State, as part of an incentive for patients to avoid busier hospitals in major cities.The exact ratio will be determined by local medical insurance and finance departments depending on the state of their insurance funds."In principle, local authorities do not set thresholds for reimbursable costs or cap the refunds at grassroots medical institutions."In comparison, spending at higher-level hospitals — including for outpatient services and emergency treatment — will be reimbursed at the same rate as other Class B infectious diseases, which are constrained by a reimbursement threshold and a refund cap, it said.Places facing shortages of medications are allowed to add more drugs to the catalog of reimbursable medicines, the circular added.According to a 2020 report released by the State Council Information Office, the cost of treatment per COVID-19 patient averaged 23,000 yuan (,300).The cost of treating critically ill patients was usually in excess of 150,000 yuan, with some cases costing as much as several million yuan.Before the nationwide reimbursement policy was unveiled, local authorities were racing to devise their own rules to ease the financial burden on those suffering from COVID-19.For example, Anhui province published a circular on Dec 29 stipulating that 70 percent of outpatient costs and bills for emergency treatment will be reimbursed. The rules do not set thresholds for reimbursable costs or cap refunds and apply to both rural and urban hospitals in the province.In Jinjiang, Fujian province, authorities said that 70 percent of outpatient costs will be reimbursed at rural hospitals, compared with just 50 percent in urban ones. The city set a 420 yuan refund cap for spending at rural hospitals, compared with 50 yuan in urban hospitals.Places including Beijing, and Henan, Hubei and Yunnan provinces in December temporarily added a mix of traditional Chinese medicines, antiviral drugs and over-the-counter medications such as fever reducers and cold capsules to their catalog of medicines covered by State-run healthcare plans.
