My classmates wore clothes that were threadbare even by the standards of rural China back then.
Milk and other dairy products would also make logical Chinese acquisitions, said Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the state-backed Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences.
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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.
But at the time, nearly half of those unemployed moved back to the interior cities, or to rural China far from the coast.
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.
In Zhejiang, the first Chinese province to provide support for the rural elderly, the sex imbalance at birth has almost disappeared, according to Xie Zhenming, editor of China Population Today.
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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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's city and rural commercial banks don't have the scale of major banks and so need to offer higher returns to be able to pull customers away from their bigger competitors, " Mr. Ye said.
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.
Other economists note that allowing farmers to devote their labour and their land to more lucrative crops would help solve one of China's most pressing structural problems: the vast discrepancy between urban and rural incomes.
China may still have abundant rural labor supply, but it has a shortage of the skilled labor supply it now needs.
As of the end of 2007, more than 26.5 million rural households were using household biodigesters, saving the equivalent of 44 million tons of CO2 emissions, according to China's State Council Information Office.
The government aims to reduce the number of rural students who drop out or migrate to urban areas because of village school closures and mergers, China Daily reports.
"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.
China has already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.
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.
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