Absolute Poverty In China

Therefore, from the point of view of international standards, they lived in absolute poverty. Net income of 1.5 million to 3 million yuan in 1990, had about 3.5% of the peasants, but in 1995, almost 37%, in 2000 - 42.8%, in 2003 - 40.7%. In accordance with the Chinese criterion of "absolute poverty", total poor population decreased to nearly 24 million people. Its share in the total population has declined over the 20 years from 14.8% to 2.5%, or more than 100 million people. According to the same criterion, the UN, the number of poor people in China exceeds 200 million people.

The level of life of the urban population is very different from the villagers. If the income of the villagers were deprived of any significant social revenue until

Unable to establish a mechanism for resolving labor disputes. Frequent cases of withholding from wages and delays in getting it paid, especially to the peasants workers. Of course, labor disputes, increasing differentiation of wages and other income of the employed population, the lack of social security and social insurance; all that is due to the rapid development of market relations. The results of the economic development of the country over the last quarter century show that the rate of reform and the policy of the Chinese Government can not be assessed as definitely positive. The price that society has paid for maintaining the pace of economic growth is too

At the same time, this economic development has had severe ramifications for the natural environment. There has been a dramatic increase in the demand for natural resources of all kinds, including water, land and energy. Forest resources have been depleted, triggering a range of devastating secondary impacts such as desertification, flooding and species loss. Moreover, poorly regulated industrial and household emissions and waste have caused levels of water and air pollution to skyrocket. China's development and environment practices have also made the country one of the world's leading contributors to regional and global environmental problems, including acid rain, ozone depletion, global climate change, and biodiversity loss.

According to detailed study by the World Bank on the harmful effects of pollution in the largest country of the world, 750,000 of premature deaths each year in China are the cause of smog. This data and the report have been censored. Of course, the Chinese government has requested the World Bank to withdraw the requirement of the alarming findings of the