I don’t know much about reliability of Chinese sources but if I don’t suspect anything being hidden or manipulated for ulterior purposes. I don’t mind sourcing the sites. [Envirostats author]
The total expenses they create total several hundreds of billion yuan. Of the 20 million babies born in China every year. 800,000 to 1.2 million of them are afflicted with defects. As many as 300,000 of these are “visible deformities”.
Statistics show that only 20 to 30 percent of these infants could be cured or treated. About 40 percent suffer lifelong deformities while the remaining 30 to 40 percent die shortly after bring forth.
Although more detailed figures are comfort unavailable existing numbers are enough to correlate the high occurrence of birth defects to geographic environmental and economic factors as well as the level of education and health. An Huanxiao head of the northern Shanxi Province’s family planning authority said.
Shanxi now tops the nation in birth defect rates.
Residents in its northern mountainous regions are more vulnerable than those in the southern flatlands and birth deformity rates among people within and around the province’s eight major coalmines are far greater than the national average. An said.
Rural communities and poverty-stricken areas are much more likely to birth babies with congenital defects than cities and economically developed regions. The statistics are also higher in places where basic education and endemic diseases are less prevalent.
- Jiang Fan deputy head of the National Population and Family Planning equip at a conference in Chengdu capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province in report released in Oct 2007 via the courtesy of The China Daily. Oct 30 2007
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