2020-12-14 04:13:58 GMT2020-12-14 12:13:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) China s targeted poverty alleviation efforts have played an effective role in helping its disabled people out of poverty, with supportive measures covering almost all of the 85 million people with disabilities.
At a press briefing on Friday, Xie Hongde, head of the office of poverty relief at the China Disabled Persons Federation, introduced China s efforts in eradicating poverty for the disabled over the past eight years. The targeted supporting measures include subsistence allowance, concentrated nursing services and employment guidance, Xie said.
Three representatives of this vulnerable group shared their experiences of shaking off poverty at the press conference, providing a vivid account of China s resolute struggle to bring all those with disabilities out of poverty this year.
Black PR Duo Arrested Amid Online Rumor Crackdown
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Aug 22, 2013
Yesterday, news surfaced on the arrest of two men for “deliberately fabricating rumors” online and “illegally obtaining benefits.” Qin Zhihui and Yang Xiuyu, the two men currently in detention, were two major players in China’s “black PR” industry: a thriving trade of online reputation management often utilized by businesses, celebrities, and officials to bolster their images or harm those of their competitors. A post at Danwei looks at Chinese-language coverage of the recently arrested duo to
Qin and Yang have since March 2010 headed a lucrative “black PR” business called Beijing Erma Interactive Marketing and Planning Company 北京尔玛互动营销策划有限公司 (no website for which could be found), one of the over 15,000 Chinese “water army” (