ABSTRACT
In 2002, Michael Phillips and his colleagues disclosed in Lancet that the suicide rate in China is between 23 and 30 cases in every 100,000 people (Phillips et al. 1999; He and Lester 1999; Phillips, Li et al. 2002; Phillips 2003; Wang Lijun et al. 2003; Zhao and Ji 2002), which is one of the highest suicide rates in the world. This attracted attention from all over the world and marked a new stage in the study of suicide in China (Da Dan 2001: 15-17).
