The fifth Chinese medical assistance team to serve in Vanuatu departed on Friday from Beijing, and is expected to arrive in Port Villa, the capital of Vanuatu, on Saturday local time.
The 11-member Chinese medical team, for the first time, includes specialists in radiology and nuclear medicine, alongside a public health expert. During their one-year mission in Vanuatu, they will continue to advance the development of the Vanuatu-China Medical Center, with a focus on establishing the Laparoscopic Surgery Training Center and promoting key Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) initiatives, including acupuncture and moxibustion therapies.
The previous four batches of Chinese medical teams dispatched to Vanuatu have provided multidisciplinary medical assistance covering surgery, internal medicine, urology, traditional Chinese medicine, anesthesiology, and dentistry, among other specialties. Their efforts have filled multiple gaps in the local healthcare system.
Fifth Chinese medical aid team departs for Vanuatu
China's shipbuilding industry maintained its leading position in the world across the three major indicators in the first nine months this year, according to data released on Friday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
From January to September, the country's shipbuilding output reached 58.05 million deadweight tonnes (DWT), up 50.7 percent year on year and accounting for 63.6 percent of the global total, the data showed.
New orders totaled 175.29 million DWT during the period, surging 163.2 percent from a year earlier and representing 81.8 percent of the global market share.
As of the end of September, the sector's holding orders stood at 399.13 million DWT, up 64.8 percent year on year. This volume accounted for 72.4 percent of the global total.
The proportion of China's new orders of green energy-powered ships reached 74.1 percent of the global total, up 5.7 percentage points compared with the January-June period.
"China has received over two thirds of the world's new orders of green energy-powered ships this year. In fact, the volume of new orders of green energy-powered ships received by China in the first half of the year already exceeded that of the whole of last year. The sector's economic benefits will rise significantly, and may even surpass the historical peak. That will make a positive contribution to the growth of the industrial economy," said Li Yanqing, vice chairman of the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry.
China's shipbuilding maintains leading position in Jan-Sept: ministry data
China's shipbuilding maintains leading position in Jan-Sept: ministry data
