A slowdown in economic activity in China has a global impact as companies that sell to China may see revenues suffer. Countries includ¬ing Australia, Brazil and others in South East Asia have seen huge profits in recent years because of Chinese demand for natural resources. The fall in demand from China has already had an impact on the prices of many commodities. Last week，China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei indicated that economic growth could be 7% for the year, and that this may not be the “bottom line”.

　　中國的保健食品(health food)市場首次出現于20世紀80年代。 保健食品是指具有特定保健功能或補充維生素或礦物質的食品。保 健食品適用于特定人群消費，具有調節人體功能的效果，但不用于 治療疾病的目的。保健食品有兩種。一種是具有特定保健功能的食品， 另外一種是營養補充劑。

　　China’s health food market first emerged in the 1980s. Health food refers to food products which claim to have specific health functions or supplement one’s vitamins or minerals. Health food is suitable for the consumption by specific groups of people and has the effect of regulating human body functions, but is not used for the purpose of treating diseases. There are two kinds of health food. One is food with specific health func¬tions, the other is nutritional supplements.

　　洛陽是地處中原的河南省西部一個地級市(prefecture-level city)。 它東部舭鄰省會鄭州，南接南陽，西連三門峽(S_enxia)，北鄰濟源。 在唐代(the Tang Dynasty),洛陽是東都(Dongdu)，東部首都，其人 口最多的時候有100萬左右，僅次于當時世界上最大的城市——長安。 在短暫的五代(Five Dynasties)時期，洛陽是后梁(Later Liang)，后唐 (Later Tang)和后晉(Later Jin)的首都，后來。北宋(the North Song Dynasty)時期，洛陽是西部首都，也是宋朝的建立人趙匡胤的出生地。

　　Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province of Central China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, and Jiyuan to the north. During the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was Dongdu (東都),the “Eastern Capital' and at its height had a population of around one million, second only to Chang，an，which, at the time，was the largest city in the world. During the short-lived Five Dynasties, Luoyang was the capital of the Later Liang, Later Tang, and Later Jin. During the North Song Dynasty, Luoyang was the “Western Capital” and birthplace of Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of Song Dynasty.