Half a Billion People Left Behind in China’s Economic Rush

According to World Bank figures, nearly 500 million Chinese people still live on less than $2 a day. The rural poor feel that the profits from China’s economic expansion have passed them by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8668086.stm

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