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Beijing to Upgrade Emergency Response System...Health Ministry Urges All-out Effort in Preventing Contagious Disease...North China Province Improves Seniors' Living Standards...China's Steel, Automobile Giants in Close Cooperation 
 
The city of Beijing will soon establish a more effective emergency response system.

A draft report on the system was released on the municipal government's website over the weekend for public comment.
The report says the capital's current system for responding to emergencies needs to be upgraded because it does not meet the needs of the city now.

Priorities are given to quick responses to emergency events in the fields of public health, counter-terrorism, fire control, traffic safety and disaster relief.******

China's Health Ministry has issued a notice, urging an all-out effort on the prevention of various contagious diseases.

The notice says it has entered a season of high incidence of contagious disease, and local health authorities need to become thoroughly aware of the disease situation, and take appropriate preventive measures.

It also requires timely reports of any infectious disease outbreak. No delays or cover-ups will be tolerated.******

China's northern province of Shanxi has worked out new rules to better protect the rights of its senior citizens.

Thanks to the new regulations, senior citizens in the province will enjoy privileges such as free admission to local parks and museums.

They are also given priority to buy bus, train and ship tickets, and to see a doctor. Rural senior citizens are not required to pay for public welfare programs in these areas.

Free legal aid will also be offered to senior citizens who cannot afford it.

Shanxi has more than 3.3 million elderly people, who account for more than 10 percent of the total number of senior citizens in the country.******

China's most modern steel company, Baosteel, has signed an agreement on full cooperation with the country's biggest auto maker, the First Automobile Works Group.

As a part of the deal, the two partners and Japan's Sumitomo Corp. will jointly invest 176 million yuan (21 million US dollars)to establish a joint venture for steel processing and product delivery to meet the needs of First Auto for steel sheet.

They will cooperate in steel supply, steel technological development for the use of steel, steel processing, logistics and business management, and car sales.