China’s workplace safety watchdog says working conditions were stable and in some cases improved from January to April this year.
Major work-related accidents involving more than 10 deaths dropped 11.6 percent compared with the same period of 2003.
A total of 310,000 work-related accidents occurred around the country in the first four months, causing the deaths of 41,000 people.
There was also a fall in the number of accidents at mines and trading enterprises. 
 
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Over 10,000 residents in Macao took part in a ten-minute physical exercise on Sunday to kick off a WHO campaign for the city entitled "Healthy City".
Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region Ho Hau Wah joined the mass exercise.
Macao took the lead in an alliance of 30 cities in the Western Pacific Region to echo the WHO's "Health City" project, which includes Shanghai as well as cities in Mongolia, the Philippines, Vietnam and South Korea. 
 
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The catering industry in China has enjoyed a rosy period this past five years, growing some 15 percent a year, far higher than the retail sector overall.
This was announced by the head of the China Cuisine Association, Zhang Shiyao, on Sunday.
He says the catering industry in China has formed diverse sectors developing side-by-side and the country is promoting chain stores and franchises in the catering business.
He adds that this promising industry should be extended from the developed coastal regions to the hinterland and from big cities to rural areas.
In addition, Chinese food, rather than western fast food, needs to be more strongly promoted. 
 
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More than 500 people in Shanghai have been infected with hepatitis C by blood transfusion.
The figure was recently released by the municipal blood donation office.