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Friday, 02 September 2011 00:00 |
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He wants a wife, of course. But ask what kind of woman he seeks and Duan Biansheng looks perplexed."I don't have any requirements at all," said the 35-year-old farmer. "I would be satisfied with just a wife." His prospects of finding one, he added, are "almost zero". There are dozens of single men in Banzhushan village, perched high on a remote |
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:00 |
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BEIJING - China's Education Ministry on Thursday reaffirmed its stance that public schools are not allowed to exact extra fees from the children of migrant workers. Public schools offering compulsory education, which includes elementary and junior high schools, are not allowed to charge the children of migrant workers any tuition, |
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:00 |
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Children across China are now back at school after the summer holidays - but several thousand in Beijing are still fighting for a place to study. With no warning, education officials decided to close down 24 schools for the children of migrant workers just weeks before the start of term. They say they will provide places at state-run schools |
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Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:42 |
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While everyone is glad to put 2009 behind them, 2010 could be an even tougher economic year for China. To climb out of the global contraction, Beijing has engineered a property bubble characterized by oversupply in commercial real estate and unsustainable price gains for residential property. The consequences of this will bite in the new year.To |
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Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:31 |
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BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Yunluo, a young farmer in China's eastern Shandong Province, started his heater production plant after returning home in December last year from Tianjin. The foreign-funded firm at which he worked had been hit by slumping orders due to the economic downturn -- and Zhang, 27, paid with his job. "It's |
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010 01:54 |
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For China, 2009 was a momentous year. The People’s Republic turned 60, and Beijing staved off economic disaster with a staggering 4 trillion renminbi ($585 billion) stimulus package. The stage is set for an eventful 2010. China’s economy is poised to become the world’s second largest. But all may not go well.There are three broad concerns |
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:27 |
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Most children of migrant workers do not enter high schools after they graduate from junior middle schools, but chose instead to go to vocational schools or work full-time, the China Youth Daily reports.A newly released report by students at central China's Wuhan University surveyed 300 senior students at junior middle schools, who are children of |
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Friday, 24 December 2010 02:34 |
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China is trying to reduce the rate of birth defects of newborn children among the migrant population by making use of the Internet.Zhang Chunsheng, the director of the Migrant Population Division of the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, has stated that China is accelerating the construction of a provincial level |
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:57 |
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China said it will raise the state pension payment for retirees by 10 percent and enable hundreds of millions of migrant workers to transfer their retirement benefits when they move across provinces.The State Council, or cabinet, announced the changes on its website after a meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday.China has been trying to |
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 02:30 |
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Dongxiaokou village is a small neighborhood in northern Beijing, but in reality exists far away from the high-rises and flashy development that the city eagerly presents to the world. Located near Liushiqiao subway station in northern Chaoyang district, the people living here have migrated mostly from Henan province.The narrow, unpaved alleys |
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