Using an all-amateur cast it looks at the difficulties of educating children in rural China.
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Just like elsewhere in rural China, younger people prefer to seek a more prosperous life in the urban fast-lane.
Its share in Rural China is extremely low, if probably non-existent, given the low income levels in those regions.
In the early 1980s, after he was discharged, he worked for a government agency that found jobs for many young people returning from their stints in rural China.
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Soren Petersen, Nokia's senior vice president in charge of sales of its lowest-price phones, often takes groups of 80 employees into homes in rural China, Africa and Southeast Asia to see how they live with Nokia mobiles.
"It may be that reducing cholesterol to levels that are consistent with what used to be found in rural china is where we need to head, " says Sydney Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a co-author of the new guidelines.
To be fair, entrepreneurship flourishes in rural areas of China, where farmers are turning into entrepreneurs and wages are determined by market forces.
We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.
In China, rural migrants who earn very low salaries mostly fill those jobs.
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For the past four years, the Yao Foundation has been funding the construction of 14 schools through the Hope Primary Schools program that will eventually benefit some 9, 000 rural students in China.
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In 2010, 34% of rural migrant workers left their factory jobs to move back home, according to the most recent data available from the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project at Australian National University.
Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
My own company began by delivering clean energy (in the form of natural gas) to rural China, where families still used animal dung for cooking fuel.
Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China including: training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools.
As part of its stimulus package, China provided incentives for those in its rural economy to trade in their less fuel-efficient vehicles for more conventional means of transportation.
This is what we have been seeing in China today, as urban per capita income far exceeds rural incomes.
Booms in China, busts on Wall Street, but here in rural Minnesota they get up, work hard, talk little and reinvest their profits.
Lardy and others argue that one way to increase consumption in China is to extend the social safety net to include rural residents, who now have to pay most of the costs of education, health, and retirement.
The low-skilled jobs also serve China well as Chinese rural migrants have opportunities to move up in life and gain some skills.
Those who provided labour for the housing boom in America (notably Latinos), Ireland (Poles) and China (rural Chinese going to cities on the eastern seaboard) have been among the first to be laid off.
Spreading from its agricultural origins to Korean people of all walks of life in both urban and rural areas, the dance has evolved considerably since it was brought to China at the end of the nineteenth century.
China has greatly broadened its rural pension scheme, which collected contributions from 140m people in 2011, compared with under 80m a year before.
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Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
China has already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.
According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
On the domestic front, China's rural poor population has declined for the first time since the poverty line was raised in 2011, although poverty alleviation work remains arduous, Xinhua news agency reports.
Bank of China, the country's largest foreign-exchange bank, said that its net profit climbed 12% on-year in 2012, higher than analyst expectations. 2012 net profit at Agricultural Bank of China, China's largest rural lender by assets, came out a touch lower than expectations.
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