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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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 already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.
China's city and rural commercial banks accounted for 43% of the wealth-management products issued in January, up from 33% issued a year earlier.
"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.
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