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China Has 100 Million People with Mental Illness

Huang Yueqin, the director of the National Centre for Mental Health, has said that 100 million people, or 7% of the population, suffer from some degree of mental illness, yet only 5% of those afflicted are aware they have a problem. From The Telegraph: Mental illness has now overtaken heart disease and cancer as the biggest burden on the Chinese health system, according to the World Health Organis