China's 'golden decade' brings some relief to rural poor

China's 'golden decade' brings some relief to rural poor
- November 5, 2012
- Dorothy Solinger, political science professor, is quoted in The Guardian November 5, 2012
From The Guardian:
Until a few months ago, 10-year-old Zhao Ai went hungry from dawn to dusk, despite
the two-hour trek between his mountain home and school. Now he enjoys a free lunch
with classmates. Like tens of millions of households in China, his family are farmers
who live on meagre profits from the crops they can spare and wages sent back by relatives
working in cities hundreds of miles away... The significance of their legacy will
depend on how their successors build upon it. "There's been a foundation, but there
is a long way to go," said Dorothy Solinger of the University of California Irvine.
As an expert on the dibao, she points out: "The whole programme remains miserable
and very, very stingy."
For the full story, please visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/05/china-golden-decade-rural-poor.
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