China’s Leaders Laud the Little Village That Could – Edward Cody
From the Washington Post (link) Wu Renbao saw the future of his little village long ago, and it worked. It worked so well that Huaxi has become the richest village in China. As a result, Huaxi has...
View ArticleBitter harvest for China’s rural majority – Rowan Callick
From the Australian (link) The Chinese rice paddy embodies the country’s cultural heartland, much like the bush does in Australia. But unlike Australia’s population – one of the world’s most heavily...
View ArticleADB calls on China to raise rural spending – Richard McGregor
From the Financial Times (link) China could provide its poorest citizens in rural areas with basic healthcare, free education and a minimum living standard for a relatively modest fiscal outlay,...
View ArticleRural China badly needs bank loans, regulator says – People’s Daily
From the People’s Daily (link) A senior Chinese banking official has said there remains huge potential for banks to finance rural development, as agricultural-related loans amounted to less than...
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CDT ChinaCast: Interview with PRI’s Mary Kay Magistad
In this edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series, seven-year China veteran Mary Kay Magistad of Public Radio International in Beijing talks about rural challenges such as health care...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Proposes Loans to Rural China – Victoria Shannon
From International Herald Tribune via Chinadaily: Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Sunday that he was working with the Chinese government to bring his Grameen Bank lending system...
View ArticleChina’s Economic Fluctuations and Their Implications for Its Rural Economy –...
From Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Right from the start of China’s reforms in 1978, its economy has progressed in cycles of first fast-growth and then slow-growth phases. From 2001...
View ArticleRoots Of China’s Miracle – Yasheng Huang (Ȫщ∫öÁîü)
From Financial Times: In designing his economic policy programme for the next five years, President Hu Jintao is well advised to seek counsel from someone virtually unknown to those Chinese who came of...
View ArticleUrbanites Find Refuge in China’s Countryside
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime destinations for urbanites seeking an escape from “anxieties over pollution, traffic, living costs, property values...
View ArticleVillagers Build Real $2.1M ‘Money Wall’
Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have “literally turned a multimillion dollar windfall into a wall of cash” after investing in farmland and small-scale...
View ArticleThe Disintegration of Rural China
Joe Zhang, the author of “Party Man, Company Man: Is China’s State Capitalism Doomed?” and a former manager at the People’s Bank of China, discusses the breakdown of traditional social norms in rural...
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