A new pain-relief medicine composed of some Chinese medicines has gone into production at a medical plant in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to speakers at a conference yesterday in Beijing. The compound, consisting of hawthorns and cinnamon, does not cause side effects. Yikang medical plant in Yunnan's capital Kunming has spent seven years and 87 million yuan (US$10.5 million) researching the medicine.

(From Xin Hua)