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Education and Government Efforts
to the China Youth and Children Research Center, 87% of the students spend ... is a small portion of the gross domestic product. China did not reach its 4% goal in 2004. Source: “Higher Education in China—An Overview,” Asian ...
Young people volunteer to "Go West"
“Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China,” Working ... ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA 27 recent university grads are selected to be sent to work strengthening China’s poorer western provinces. 60,000 applied ...
China's skies increasingly crowded with passenger jets
and Economics, “China’s Air Passenger Transport: An Analysis of Recent Trends”, ... 679,500 people traveled by air in China, fewer than half the daily number ... million). By 2010, there were 175 civil transport airports in China according ...
Divorce is increasingly common
June 18, 2007 By Xiao Wei ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA 5,233 couples ... the courts. The divorce level in China has been rapidly increasing since the 1980s. ... nearly 2.5 times the China rate. Sources: Fox News, May 10 2007, < ...
Relatively few movie theaters for film fans
June 18, 2007 ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA film goers visit 1,325 ... in The China Business Review, this means there’s just one screen for every ... in their village and films were shown outside or in schools. With economic ...
China's elite takes up golf
July 21, 2011 By OWEN WANG ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA, about 395 ... Most of the courses in China are built near urban centers in the country’s east. Beijing has 59 golf courses, by far the most in China ...
Chinese language study is rising fast
the great rise in Chinese enrollments to China’s rising economic strength ... with interest in Japan’s economic growth and its culture. In 1960, Chinese ... With Japan’s 1980s economic bubble, however, enrollment in Japanese raced ahead. ...
Internet Users In China
June 21, 2007 By Adam Davis ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA, an internet ... users in China is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, the rising ... whereas Americans only log on for 129 million hours. Net users in China can ...
Chunyun: millions return home
January 8, 2008 By Lawrence Gu ON AN AVERAGE DAY in China during ... China’s population, transporting over 2 billion passengers around ... and affordable type of transportation in China, appealing especially ...
Cell phone use exploding
July 10, 2007 By Pou In Kuan ON AN AVERAGE DAY in China, 135,416 new cell phones are registered. According to China ’s Ministry of Information ... the total number of cell phone users in China to 461,082,000. Today, ...