Chinese Trends

Few Chinese would choose to go to the hospital during the Spring Festival if they could avoid it.

But in the past week, Shanghai's plastic surgery hospitals have seen a number of willing patients – business people from neighboring Zhejiang Province who wanted to make permanent adjustments on their physical appearance.

The Shanghai Evening Post reports the city's Time Plastic Surgery Hospital has taken in more than 100 business people from Zhejiang, most of them in their 40s and 50s, to undergo aesthetic operations during the past two months.

About 60 percent of the patients opted for facial surgery intended to make them look younger.

(CRI February 7, 2006)