Tien Ching poses with girls in the EGRC program. (Tien Ching) While China’s post-reform economic growth has dramatically raised living standards for most of the country, many people in the poorest ...

C hina’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to ...

Many rural Chinese girls have only one chance in their lives. If a rural girl gets accepted to university but cannot attend because her family is too poor, she might lose this chance forever.

China's leaders have set an ambitious 5% economic growth target this year. But poorer people in the aging countryside have been left behind even as the rest of China's economy has risen.

A teenage girl from a poor, landlocked rural area of China, who has worked hard to achieve success in the sport of surfing, will represent her country in the 2024 Olympics in a remarkable ...

In China, economic anxiety is trumping fear of Covid-19 for many in the countryside, as the urban-rural income gap keeps widening.

The odds of forming a strong teacher-student bond are not helped by the grim realities of rural education. Low pay and poor prospects mean the turnover rate among Chinese rural teachers is high, which ...

Poisoned by poverty: China boy, 6, and girl, 4, hospitalised after downing toxic liquid poor grandmother found in rubbish bin Sister suffers severe damage to internal organs, needs multiple operations ...

She is one of hundreds of poor Christian girls who have been trafficked to China in a market for brides that has swiftly grown in Pakistan since late last year, activists say.

In its recent study of poverty in China, the World Bank looks at some of the common perceptions of poverty in China to see how they match up with data studied by the bank.