From the thread "Painless abortion advert misleading younger Chinese"
During Shanghai Health Technology Week, Wu Junqing, a professor from Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, made a speech about reducing the rate of abortion. She pointed out that in recent years there has been a growing trend of young Chinese females undergoing abortions. The youngest patient reported was only 13-years-old. Last year, Wu said she met a 23-year-old girl who had undergone 23 abortions, statistically averaging one abortion for every year she has lived.
According to a 2014 news report, there are at least 13 million reported abortion cases in China every year, ranking the highest in the world. Another 10 million abortions were carried out privately by using medicine or at private clinics. Half of the patients were unmarried adolescents.
According to a monitoring project of Chinese children's and adolescents' sexual and reproductive health status, 13 percent of female adolescents and 48 percent of male adolescents surveyed said they had become pregnant or impregnated someone.
In Shanghai, the rate of abortion among women from other provinces is higher than women with a Shanghai hukou (household registration).
According to research conducted in Shanghai, 5 percent of junior high school students have had sex. The proportion rises to 10 percent to 15 percent among senior high school students, and further to 20 percent to 25 percent among college students.
Wu blamed the increase in abortions on commercial clinics who advertise painless abortions such as "finishing in 15 minutes of sleep." "Painless abortion can lead to menstrual disorders, uterine cavity infection and perhaps habitual miscarriage or even lifelong infertility, which leaves girls in a psychological shadow and affects their future life. None of this is mentioned in the adverts," said Wu at the speech.
From eastday.com
From the thread "Rumors on driving lesson prices clarified"
A post on WeChat and Weibo about regulating the cost of driving lessons was widely spread recently. According to the post, all driving schools' class tuition would cost only 1,830 yuan ($295) starting in July. However, a local price watchdog along with the city's automobile driver training trade association and several local driving schools all denied the new price regulation. Different driving schools decide their own tuitions according to their own operational costs and the price range across the city, and then report their prices to local authorities.
The tuitions of several large-scale driving schools in Shanghai average between 8,000 yuan and 9,000 yuan. A manager surnamed He from a driving school in Pudong New Area told the Shanghai Morning Post that the cost of training a student is at least 6,000 yuan.
From jfdaily.com