Monday, August 02, 2004

Issues in Rural China

Amid China's Boom, No Helping Hand for Young Qingming: His dying debt was $80. Had he been among China's urban elite, Zheng Qingming would have spent more on a trendy cellphone. But he was one of the hundreds of millions of peasants far removed from the country's new wealth. His public high school tuition alone consumed most of his family's income for a year. [NYT, reg. req.]


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