She knows from experience how difficult it is to break through China’s urban-rural divide. She was raised and educated in a small town in the northwestern province of Gansu. She sat for the ...

Income disparities between rural and urban populations remain a pressing issue in China. According to the NBS, the annual per capita disposable income of rural residents was less than half that of ...

Chinese director Huo Meng's Berlin competition drama explores 1990s rural life through a boy left with extended family while ...

versus around 15% globally - with doctors blaming the rise on factors such as stress related to urban jobs and industrial pollution. Fertility rates in China’s rural areas are slightly higher at ...

Insights from Xinjiang. Chinese Studies, 14, 22-41. doi: 10.4236/chnstd.2025.141003 . In 2010, China initiated the Pairing ...

The dot plot shows the gap in access for rural and urban communities in China for select healthcare infrastructure indicators. Critics say that for China to choose urban and industrial investment ...

With doctors and medical students avoiding China's rural hospitals because of low pay, villagers don't receive adequate healthcare David Wei had to carry his nephew on his back for 3km (1.9 miles) ...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee Unlike his predecessor late Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks volumes about his ...

However, China has the largest elderly population in the world and generally has lower levels of health literacy, exacerbated by significant urban‒rural disparities.1 Additionally, the migration of ...

HANGZHOU, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The rich aroma of freshly roasted coffee filled the air inside a quaint stone cabin in an east China village, which houses German barista Frank Sterzer's café named Bamboo ...