An event took place at the National Blood Centre under the Ministry of Public Health in the PRC on June 16 to mark World Blood Donor Day. Present there were officials of the ministry, blood donors, medical workers in Pyongyang and employees of the centre. At the event, the speaker expressed thanks to the blood donors who voluntarily have donated precious blood to save people's lives and help restore their health, and referred to the theme of World Blood Donor Day this year an

The qualifications of teachers are just the quality of education and the speed of advance of the country. The international conference on education held in October 1994 set October 5 as world teachers’ day and decided to mark the day every year according to the unanimous demand and agreement of the participants. The main purpose of marking the day is to bring home to people the significance and importance of educational work in social development and to enhance the position a

October 14 is World Standards Day. Today standardization as well as technical innovation is essential to economic growth. Many countries are channelling efforts into both R&D and standardization so as to achieve the industrialization and monopoly of technologies and gain enormous economic profits. In contact with the International Standardization Organization (ISO), many countries are pursuing their own strategy in standardization with an eye to sustainable socio-economic dev