Wang Dongsheng, the director-general of the Social Development Division of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, disclosed at a recent forum that nine kinds of public health services will be available to Chinese residents free of charge.

GE Healthcare in Asia has released Centricity PACS Web Diagnostic, a new Web-based diagnostic viewer that will bring comprehensive detailed patient history to a single patient folder.

The management, executives, and employees of InterContinental Beijing Financial Street recently visited orphans at Blue Sky Healing Home — a small, private medical foster home in Beijing — bringing them Christmas goodies, gifts, and love.

Baidu.com, the largest Chinese internet search engine provider, has made an apology to Internet users for failing to regulate false claims made by medical advertisers featuring prominently in its search rankings.

AmeriCares has opened a second field hospital in Sichuan Province — in Wenchuan County, which was the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 69,000 people and left approximately 5 million homeless.

Shenzhen is planning to issue its "Shenzhen City Employees' Work-Related Injury Rehabilitation Management Measure (Draft)" this year, setting up rigorous procedures for employees' work-related injury rehabilitation.

Lvjing Group has set up a charity foundation which is also the first one by a private real estate enterprise in Shenzhen, and plans to donate CNY15 million for public welfare undertakings in the quake and poverty-stricken areas.