China's population is aging rapidly, with a peak expected in 2040 of 400 million people 60 or older. The figures came in a report on China's population from 1991 to 1995 and predictions for the future. It said new births totaled 20 million annually. If this year's birth rate is the same level, the total population by the end of 1995 will be 1.212 billion, below the planned 1.227 billion. The market test in Shanghai is in the first phase of a plan to add the 60 million citizens of China's coastal cities to the global community of regular users of little packets of the non-caloric sweetener.
Chinese consumers are interested in balance in their diet.
A panda has given birth to twin cubs at a panda preserve in western Sichuan Province. The births brought the number of new cubs at the Wolong Nature Reserve to four. Researchers were caring for one of the cubs because the mother could not care for both. Helms is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, visited the grave of U.S. civil right leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.