INCHEON Cheap Nike Air Max Thea Clearance , Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese women's soccer team were held to a goalless draw by Japanese in their Asian Games opener on Monday while their men's side lost 3-0 to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"Our players did very well in the game, but we have yet to reach technical or tactical peak," said China head coach Hao Wei.
"The first match is always difficult," added Hao, who also noted there are some details the team need to work on.
According to the head coach, the Chinese team originally targeted at victory Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Clearance , which explained three substitutions throughout the match. "We wanted to make the team more offensive," said Hao.
Hao said he believed the Chinese team would play better as the tournament went on.
Earlier in the day, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea handed a 3-0 defeat to an ambitious Chinese side who had expected a top-four finish at the Asian Games men's soccer tournament.
Sim Hyon-jin stunned the Chinese with a 10th minute goal, which was followed by two more goals by So Kyong-jin and Ri Hyok-chol at the 47th and 57th minute respectively.
Head coach Fu Bo attributed the loss to their own mistakes, saying it was a good chance to learn from a strong competitor such as DPR Korea.
"It was us to blame," said Fu. "The 10th minute goal was the main reason for today's failure. The three goals all happened after we made mistakes."
China were drawn in Group F along with DPR Korea and Pakistan at the Asian Games. Top two teams from each of the eight groups advance to the knock-out stage.
China's best performance at the Asian Games men's soccer tournament was in 1994 in Hiroshima Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Clearance , Japan, when they finished runners-up to Uzbekistan.
BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- For most families in China, a major change to the national family planning policy is dramatically altering their lives.
The central government's recent decision at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee will allow families to have two children if one of the parents is an only child. Prior to the amendment, couples could only have two children if both of the parents were the only child in their families.
Cheng Wei, a 29-year-old woman from Hangzhou Cheap Nike Air Max Clearance , Zhejiang province, was on a business trip to Beijing when news about the government's decision broke last month.
An accountant at a private company in Hangzhou for the past three years, Cheng said she seldom keeps track of political news. It was her husband, Liu Jian, who called about the announcement.
"What does this mean?" asked the mother, who has a 3-year-old daughter Cheap Air Max Thea Clearance , over the phone.
"It means we have a choice to make," answered her husband.
Cheng is the only child in her family and Liu has two older brothers. Having two children has never been an option for the couple.
"I have never seriously thought about this because it seems too difficult in the past, though I do want to have two children," Cheng said.
A family discussion was soon held in Cheng's home, during which "all the family members became excited about having a newborn," she said.
"My parents are very willing to help raise the kids because they are still in good health Cheap Air Max 95 Clearance ," she said. "And they've helped raise my daughter, so they've got experience."
Cheng is one of many families who are considering another child. The National Health and Family Planning Commission predicts that the amendment will result in 1.5 to 2 million newborns.
But a Dec 19 survey from the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences shows that in Beijing, about 51.5 percent of families prefer to have only one child, while 38.3 percent of those surveyed want to have two children.
The biggest reason for not having a second child? In a country where there is a wide gap between rich and poor, it's not surprising to see that money is a big factor.
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Like many families who are now qualified to have a second child, Xu says both her parents and in-laws support her and her husband's wishes to have a second child. Xu and her husband married soon after college, and in 2005, their son was born. Soon afterward, Xu became a stay-at-home mom. The family is currently living in a two-bedroom apartment in a university in Guangzhou Cheap Air Max Clearance , where her husband works as a lecturer.
As the boy has gotten older, their apartment has gotten a little tight for Xu.
"I cannot even imagine having a newborn and the four of us living here," Xu said with a laugh. "We definitely need to move into a large house if our family expands."
The average housing price in Guangzhou was 11,468 yuan ($1,889) per square meter this November, according to the Guangzhou provincial housing authority. Xu said they can't afford the city's current home prices Cheap Nike Air Max Thea Womens , especially since she isn't working and her husband makes less than 10,000 yuan a month.
She said another reason for her hesitation about having a second child is finding someone to help take care of the baby.
"Though I am not working," she says, "it is definitely hard for me to take care of two kids at the same time. I need help from our parents. But that isn't a good idea."
Soon after their son was born in 2005, Xu's parents came to live with them in Guangzhou and stayed with the family for two years.
"I hadn't lived with my parents for a long time, and while he was here my dad and I argued a lot over very small things Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Womens ," Xu recalled.
Born in the 1980s, Xu is an only child. She said she has a bad temper, which was even worse when her son was less than 2 years old.
"I actually have many regrets when I was raising my son when he was very little. I was very