Second Group of National Human Rights Education and Training Bases Established

The Ministry of Education and the State Council Information Office on July 22 announced the second group of national human rights education and training bases, in- cluding the Human Rights Research Center at Renmin University of China, the Human Rights Research Center at Fudan University, the Human Rights Research Academy at Wuhan University, the Human Rights Research Center at Shandong University and the Human Rights Education and Research Center at the Southwest University of Politica~ Science arid Law.

Responsibilities and Working Mechanism of National Human Rights Education and Training Bases

On July 22, 2014, the second group of national human rights education and train- ing bases was announced,increasing the number of national bases from the previous three to a total of eight, which reflects the advancement of human rights education and ~aining in China and has far-reaching significance.

Second National Convention on University Human Rights Education Held in Beijing

The Second China Convention on Human Rights Education in Universities was held on November 6-8 in Beijing. It was jointly sponsored by the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Institute of the China University of Political Science and Law, the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, Norway, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. More than 90 researchers, scholars and human rights teachers of universities from China and other countries attended.

The Way to Solve the Hong Kong Problem——from the Perspective of Educational Reform

The civic education in Hong Kong schools is not only valued and successful,but also controversial.In the process of implementing“one country,two systems”in Hong Kong,especially in recent years,some new situations and new problems have emerged,a series of fierce social movements have continuously erupted,and some social and political disputes have continuously emerged.some Hong Kong students in citizens’political participation has gradually turned out to be the object of the“street politics”endures,even turned into‘thugs’,Hong Kong,triggered a strong concern of the whole society.In order to strive for certain demands,these students have shown themselves to the public with outrageous,fanatical and even extreme actions,which run counter to the goal and purpose of Hong Kong’s civic education and have also been suspected of crimes.Faced with the uncontrollable political fanaticism of some students,summarize the experience and lessons of civic education in Hong Kong schools,formulate corresponding programs and measures in a targeted manner,and further improve them.

Schooling and Income Effect of Education Development in China:Evidence from the National Compulsory Education Project in China’s Poor Areas

Whether investing in hardware for basic education is conducive to the long-term development of school-age children is a controversial issue in academic literature.Based on the data from the 2013 Chinese Household Income Project(CHIP),this paper uses the difference-in-differences(DID)method with cross-sectional data to evaluate the policy effects of China’s National Compulsory Education Project for Poor Areas launched in 12 central provinces in the mid-1990s.We fi nd that through the construction,renovation,or expansion of primary and junior middle school buildings and purchase of teaching equipment,this project achieved on its goal of“raising education levels”:the years of schooling of the benefi ciaries after they reached adulthood increased signifi cantly by roughly 0.7 years.However,the project was not found to have an“income effect”,i.e.,the income of the benefi ciary children did not increase with the increase in schoolings.The econometric analysis shows that although the project could raise the income levels of the children in adulthood,it did not significantly increase the likelihood of the beneficiary groups moving to cities as migrant workers.Limited by the late development of secondary and tertiary industries in poor counties,the benefi ciaries who stayed locally were less likely to engage in non-farm occupations,and thus their income did not signifi cantly increase.This indicates that policies like the Compulsory Education Project designed to improve school hardware in a short period of time can effectively promote the development of basic education in poverty-stricken areas.Nonetheless,to achieve the fundamental goal of raising income while increasing schooling,it is also necessary to actively guide people moving to cities to work as migrant workers and bolster the development of local secondary and tertiary sectors.

Female Education of China's Minority Nationalities

CHINA is a unified multi-ethnic country. Besides the populous Han nationality, China has 55 minorities with a population of 91.2 million, accounting for 8.04 percent of the country’s total. The area of the minority autonomous regions is 64.3 percent of the total national territory. Before 1949, almost all minority women in China were illiterate. Since the founding of New China, the female education among the minority nationalities has made great progress. According to the fourth national census, the female population of minorities over six years old is 38.18 million. Of these 15.3 million females have received a primary education; 7.

Cardiovascular risk and prevalence of metabolic syndrome by differing criteria

Background The prevalence of metabolic syndrome （MetS） in hypertensive population in Chinese countryside is unknown. Firstly, this study compared the prevalence of MetS according to National Cholesterol Education Program （NCEP） ATPIII, revised NCEP and International Diabetes Federation （IDF） definitions. Secondly, it investigated the association between MetS, coronary heart disease （CHD） and stroke in patients with hypertension. Methods In this cross sectional study, the cluster sampling method was used. Three MetS definitions were applied to 1418 normal subjects and 5348 hypertensive patients aged 40-75 years in rural areas in China. The agreement between different MetS definitions was estimated by K statistics. Logistic regression analyses determined the association between MetS defined by the three MetS definitions and CHD and stroke. Results In subjects without hypertension, the prevalence of Mets was 4.1% by NCEP definition, 8.3% revised NCEP definition and 7.8% IDF definition. In hypertensive individuals, the prevalence was 14.0%, 32.9%, and 27.4% in men; 35.6%, 53.1%, and 50.2% in women by the same definitions, respectively. In hypertensive individuals, the agreement was 94.4% in men and 97.0% in women between revised NCEP and IDF definitions. The IDF defined MetS was more strongly associated with CHD than the NCEP or revised NCEP defined MetS （adjusted odds ratio： 1.92 compared with 1.85 and 1.69 in men; 1.64 compared with 1.48 and 1.60 in women）. Conclusions In the patients with hypertension, the revised NCEP and IDF definitions identified more individuals than NCEP definition and their agreement is very high. The IDF defined MetS is more strongly associated with CHD than the NCEP or revised NCEP defined MetS, but weakly or not associated with stroke.