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"China is in the process of development and imbalances in the real estate market can be expected to continue for some time. So in the coming years, we will keep a close watch on house prices," Vice Minister of Construction Qi Ji said.
   
The creation of a new super-ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is not a cost-cutting exercise aimed at shedding civil service jobs, but a strategic move to improve the overall management of China's human resources, according to a human resources specialist Wu Jiang.
   
In 1994, Lester R. Brown, head of the US Worldwatch Institute, challenged China's food prospects in his book Who Will Feed China? He predicted that China's inability to feed its huge population would come to pose a major threat to the world.
   
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