A nurse injects a woman with a human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine at Boao Super Hospital in South China's Hainan province, Feb 18, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] Health service centers have reassured women who have had the first one or two doses of a four-way HPV vaccine - which requires three doses within six months - that they have full supplies. Concerns arose after recent media reports that the four-way HPV vaccine Gardsil, which works against four types of HPV and has been available in major cities on the Chinese mainland since the end of last year, was highly sought after and many centers had canceled reservations because they were out of stock. The suspension of new reservations is just to guarantee the required doses for those who have received the first one or two, said a woman who only gave her surname, Zhang, from the Xuhui district's Kangjian community health service center in Shanghai. Each time the center is replenished with, say 30 doses, it will provide them to 10 women to ensure each can obtain her three doses as scheduled, she said. There are already 200 women with reservations on the waiting list and it is hard to tell how long they will have to wait, Zhang said. The Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University said the vaccines were booked up just days after the inoculation became available in Shanghai in March. Our stock can guarantee that the 171 women who have received the first dose can have their second shot - suggested at two months after the first dose. Our stocks will get replenished in July or August so there is no worry about their third shot - suggested at six months after the first, said Shen Yan from the hospital's publicity department. Xiong Ying, a physician with Shanghai-based Sino-United Health Clinic, said it is fine if the three doses are finished over a span of 12 months. Wang Qing, director of the cervical disease diagnosis and treatment center at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, said: I suggest that women who plan to get the inoculation sign a contract with the health center that the three doses must be received within one year, since the shortage of the vaccine seems severe. Local news portal thepaper.cn cited officials from the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention as saying the shortage of the vaccine is mainly due to high market demand. In late April, China's top drug administration approved the import of the latest HPV vaccine, which works against nine types of HPV, into the mainland. make rubber braceletswellies and wristbands 2017black rubber wristbandscool wristbandsfidget spinner braceletbatman wristbandcustom rubber wristbands
China launches two Type 055 guided-missile destroyers, widely considered Asia's biggest such combat vessels, at a shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning province, on Tuesday. [Photo/LIU DEBIN FOR CHINA DAILY] China launched on Tuesday two Type 055 guided-missile destroyers, widely considered Asia's biggest and mightiest such combat ship, according to witnesses outside a shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning province. Weapons enthusiasts published photos taken near Dalian Shipbuilding Industry, which has built two aircraft carriers, on internet military forums. They also described what they saw of the two giant ships' launches. When ships are moved into the water, their construction is basically finished. It is regarded as the most important step before sea trials. Water started to be pumped into dry docks where the vessels were built around 7 am, before the docks' gates were opened, witnesses said. Photos showed that there was a small launch ceremony at the shipyard with hundreds of workers standing in formation in front of the two Type 055s, each decorated with a huge national flag and ceremonial banners. Then the ships were pushed into open waters by several tugboats, the photos showed. The next steps usually are for engineers to test and fine-tune equipment already mounted on the ships and continue installing other devices. Then they will conduct mooring tests and sea trials before the ships are commissioned in the People's Liberation Army Navy. Four Type 055s have now been launched, but none are yet commissioned. The first of the class was launched in late June 2017 at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, the second in late April at the same shipyard. Type 055 is China's newest generation of guided-missile destroyers. It has a displacement greater than 10,000 metric tons and will be equipped with new types of air defense, missile defense and anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons, according to the Navy. It has 112 vertical launching cells that can fire various kinds of missiles, including China's long-range land-attack cruise missile. Its firepower is thought to be twice that of the Type 052D, the largest and most powerful surface combatant commissioned in the PLA Navy. While the Type 055 is classifed as a destroyer, outside China it would be considered a cruiser as its large size and heavy displacement are comparable to that of the United States' Ticonderoga class cruiser. Li Jie, a senior researcher for the PLA Navy, said the vessel displaces about 13,000 tons. The latest version of the United States' Arleigh Burke class, the largest family of destroyers in the world, has a full displacement of 9,800 tons. South Korea's Sejong the Great class displaces 11,000 tons while Japan's Atago class displaces 10,000 tons. Cao Weidong, a senior researcher at the PLA Naval Military Studies Research Institute, said that compared with other destroyers in the Navy, the Type 055 features stealth design, stronger strike prowess and higher information capacity and will tremendously boost the PLA Navy's long-range operational capability. He also said such ships will greatly strengthen the country's carrier battle groups.
