GENEVA - Chinese people can look forward to a longer healthy life than Americans for the first time since records began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data.Chinese newborns in 2016 can expect 68.7 years of healthy life, compared with 68.5 years for American babies, the figures show.American babies can still expect to live longer overall, dying at 78.5 years compared to China's 76.4. but during the last decade Americans are likely to suffer from ill health.The lost years of good health that are a factor in calculating healthy life expectancy at birth are lower for China, Japan, Korea and some other high income Asian countries than for high income 'Western' countries, said WHO spokeswoman Alison Clements-Hunt.The United States was one of five nations, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life spans beginning at birth fell in 2016, according to the WHO data, which was published in mid-May.Chinese life expectancy has increased substantially and is now higher than for some high-income countries, said Clements-Hunt.The US life span is decreasing, having peaked at 79 years in 2014, the first such reversal for many years, she said.The world's longest living people are the Japanese. Babies born in Japan in 2016 were forecast to live for 84.2 years. 202mm to inchescustom wrist sweatbandstyvek event wristbands24 hour wristbands couponsilicone fidget spinnerflash drive wristbandprinted wristbands
Russians could soon drink tea and eat pork from Ningxiang,Hunan province, while people in Hunan could soon get a taste of original vodka and chocolate from Russia. A company from Ningxiang and the biggest supermarket in Russia recently signed a $1 million agreement on supplying tea and cans, Changsha Evening Newspaper reported. XiPu Industrial, mainly focusing on import and export of agricultural and light industrial products in Ningxiang, also reached a tentative deal on 79 kinds of agricultural products and light industrial goods with Magnit, the biggest rural supermarket in Russia. The international trade platform called "Hunan products into Russia" has had a great influence on Russia through online and offline promotions, attracting many Russian retail companies and platform providers to work on deals. Magnit also showed keen interest in many agricultural products and light industrial products by undertaking a field trip in Ningxiang on Sept 27. "It's a great opportunity for us to explore Hunan and the Ningxiang economic development district to see products that our supermarket needs, and the government is also supporting us," said a top executive of Magnit. "It has made us believe that it's right to work together." Ningxiang economic development zone has always been devoted to the development of openness and innovation and has recorded an increase of over 20 percent in foreign capital and foreign trade for many years. XiPu Industrial is the forerunner of entrepreneurs involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Its sale network includes 16 cities with population over a million in Russia, and also explores the national markets of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Magnit is the biggest rural supermarket in Russia, with 14,059 retail stores, including 10,521 supermarkets, 237 markets, 194 family stores and 3,107 cosmetic outlets. In 2016 the merchandise trade between China and Magnit had reached $5 billion. Xin Wen contributed to this story.
