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China's Poor Feel Inflation Worst

The economic gap between China's rural poor compared to those living in urban areas is widening, as China sees its worst inflation in 11 years. While the growing middle class living in the cities continue to spend, many poor villagers and farmers are...

from YouTube on Sun, Apr 20 2008

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15 Apr 08 visit Tsinghua Professor: Big Chinese cities need slums for migrant workers  »  People's Daily A Chinese scholar from one of China's most prestigious universities claimed slums should be allowed to exist in China's big cities to provide shelters for the urban poor. "It is no shame for big cities to have such areas. On the con ...
23 May 07 visit Chinese government decides to subsidize all rural poor  »  People's Daily China's State Council, or the cabinet, on Wednesday held an executive meeting on expanding a rural subsistence allowances system that will satisfy the rural poor's minimum requirements for living.

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