Rural Society in China

Letters to the Editor, May 13, 2013

13 May 2013

Thousands turned out for May day marches on May 1, because so many workers in Hong Kong believe they are being poorly treated.

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China's left-behind kids cloud the country's dream

24 Mar 2013

China can dream about grandeur and resurgence, but here are some new statistics that will pull her down. In her own backyard, among her vast rural poor in the countryside, many young children have...

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Xi Jinping visits poor in Hebei province and tells of goal to lift millions out of hardship

31 Dec 2012

Party chief Xi Jinping said lifting tens of millions of people out of poverty remains the biggest challenge for the new leadership in its bid to build a moderately prosperous society by 2020,...

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Fingers point, but little children are still dying

30 Dec 2012

Fifteen kindergarten pupils in rural Guixi, Jiangxi province, crammed into a van designed for seven, plunged into the cold waters of a roadside pond on Christmas Eve because their driver, who...

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Wealth gap to be cut, Han Changfu tells Central Rural Work Conference

23 Dec 2012

Beijing will look to boost farmers' income, protect their land rights and seek more equitable treatment for migrant workers in cities, reports from the annual rural work conference said yesterday...

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Party's first policy plan to focus on rural issues, say experts

21 Dec 2012

The Communist Party's first policy blueprint next year will continue to focus on rural issues, with priority likely to be given to diversifying patterns of agricultural production to encourage...

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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Microcredit schemes struggling to aid China's rural poor

The first investments by a long-awaited fund dedicated to helping the poor through financial services has helped shed light on the huge hurdles still facing microcredit organisations in rural...

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Gansu province 'beautifies' its roadways by walling in rural villages

Rural poverty in China’s northwest is anything but a new topic. But those who want to see it for themselves may find it increasingly hard as the government ramps up efforts to conceal it –...

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The reality of 'new socialist countryside'

It's impossible to miss the huge billboard at the modest entrance of Shashi, a village on the outskirts of Ganzhou .

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Spreading the news

The son of a peasant from a southern Guangdong village, Chen Yong's aspiration as a university student was to become a scientist to advance the genetic quality of crops and improve the lot of...

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The seeds of rural discontent

There is a Chinese saying that officials use to defuse criticism of corruption and mismanagement: 'Eating meat while holding a bowl, but cursing as soon as the bowl is put down.' The meat is a...

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Sowing seeds of development

China's rapid growth over the past two decades has led to a dramatic transformation of its landscape. As towns and cities expand their boundaries and highways are built across the country, more...

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