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						Urban Issues ■ Urban Migration to Get a Boost ■ Program Launched to Extend Medical Insurance ■ End in Sight for Poverty in Beijing-Tianjin Belt ■ Urbanites Employment Creates 11.84m Record ■ Bad Urban Planning Scrutinized in Cloud of Dust ■ 30% of Urban Jobless Are Youth Under 35 ■ Digital Divide Between Urban, Rural Areas to Be Bridged ■ Shanghai's Youth Care for Their Parents ■ China to Continue Efforts to Rein in Rising Housing Prices ■ Urbanization Drive Gains Momentum ■ Macao to See Rise in Aged Population ■ Low Income Groups Given Free Medication in Shanghai ■ Social Security Coverage Extended ■ Vice Premier Urges Improvement of Social Security System ■ China to Create Easy Access Environment for Senior Citizens ■ Medicare Insurance to Cover 300 Mln Urban Residents ■ Charity Supermarkets: A New Approach to Poverty Relief ■ Economic Growth Does Not Solve Unemployment, Official ■ Low-income Housing Planned in Shenzhen ■ Recruitment of Volunteers Kicks off ■ HK Tycoon Pledges to Donate Money for Charity Purpose ■ China Expects Communities to Take More Care of Elderly People ■ China to Lose Labor Force Advantage as Result of Aging Society ■ Chinese Women from Only-child Families Afraid of Childbirth ■ Population Change May Lead to Drop in House Prices ■ Macao Sees Drop in Unemployment in Q2 ■ Fast Urbanization Dumps Garbage in Chinese Cities ■ Macao Drafts New Law to Better Protect Laborers' Rights ■ China's Trade Unions Can Do a Better Job, Survey Finds ■ US Cutting Tool Maker Promises 400 Jobs in New Tianjin Factory ■ Willing But Better Skills Needed ■ Wal-Mart Offers Talks on Union Formation ■ 2006 Will See Millions of New Jobs ■ Exhibition of Achievement for Enterprises Run by the Disabled ■ Social Security System Requires Improvement ■ China Promotes Girls to Avoid Glut of Bachelors ■ Tianjin Urged to Curb Population Growth ■ Wal-Mart Workers Establish 3rd Trade Union ■ Workers Angry as Firm Bends Pay Rules ■ Graduates Face Serious Employment Situation ■ Housing for Low-income People to Be Improved ■ Guangzhou Incomes Up 8% in First Half ■ 'Seeing Shoes' Threaten Guide Dogs' Jobs ■ China Keeps on Fighting Against Selective Abortions ■ House Sales Go Through the Roof Ahead of Deadline ■ Living Space Shrinks as Collective Rent Grows ■ Unemployment Rate in China Remains Stable at 4.2% ■ Income Tax Cuts in for Second-hand Houses ■ Int'l Loan for Pollution Treatment in SW China Scenic Lake ■ Insurance Firms Failing to Support Disabled ■ Vice Premier Urges Efforts to Curb Water Pollution ■ China to Remain Aging Society in 21st Century ■ China to Spend Heavily on Waste Treatment and Recycling ■ HK Sees Unemployment Slightly Up ■ Guangdong Halts Salary Increases at Monopolies ■ China to Build More Low-rent Houses ■ Gov't to Reduce Income Gap Through Reform: Officials ■ Sino-EU Project Assists Elderly in West China ■ China Clarifies Rules on Increasing Supply of Small Houses ■ Nation to Launch Monitoring of Birth Gender Ratios ■ Guangdong Increases Minimum Salary Levels ■ Lenovo Introduces Corporate Pension Scheme ■ China to Reform Income Distribution System for Social Equality ■ Urban Personal Residential Area Stands at 26 sq. m ■ Property, Oil Prices Raise Cost of Living in Beijing ■ Cabbies Hope for Relief with Subsidy Promise ■ Urbanites Head for New Life in Suburbs ■ China to Offer More Legal Aid to Disadvantaged Groups ■ Govt's Budget Targets Education, Innovation, Environment ■ Shanghai Addresses Ageing Issue ■ Income Gaps Among Urban Residents Looming Large ■ Korean Couple Build Loving Home for Orphans ■ China Promotes Volunteer Service in Communities ■ Divorce Rate Rises As China Develops: Scholar ■ Heavily Polluted City Invests in a Cleaner Environment ■ Second-hand Housing Takes New Direction ■ Population to Peak at 1.5 Bln in 2030s ■ Urbanites Worry About Rising Cost of Living ■ HK's Unemployment Rate Descends ■ China Dedicated to Raising Women's Economic Status Back Home   Back to China's War on Poverty
			Developing modern agriculture is the Chinese government's top priority in building a new socialist countryside, according to a document jointly released by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. Eighteen children pose for a picture at a village in Ziyun Miao and Buyi Autonomous County in Guizhou Province, January 22. Among them, twelve children's parents left the village to work in big cities in coastal areas. Chinese farmers saw their net incomes grow to 3,587 yuan ($460) last year, representing the third consecutive year of 6 percent year-on-year growth.   Global Conference on Reducing Poverty - Shanghai Conference Unveils Agenda for Poverty Reduction - Shanghai Agenda on Poverty Reduction - China Promises Common Prosperity for All People Poverty Reduction Reports China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation Annual Report 2001 BBS China's War on Poverty Links China Development Gateway National Bureau of Statistics of China China Charity Federation (CCF) China Youth Development Foundation Planet Finance China Minstry of Civil Affairs (in Chinese) China Poverty Alleviation Network (in Chinese)

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