Study: Suicide Rates Increasing in China

By Rob Gifford

Published December 3, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Each year, about 280,000 people in China commit suicide while 2 million more attempt it, according to an article published in the British medical journal The Lancet. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

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Rob Gifford is the NPR foreign correspondent based in Shanghai.

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