Tien Ching, a Canadian citizen who grew up in China, aimed to close these opportunity gaps.In 2010, she founded the non-profit organization Educating Girls of Rural China (EGRC), which sponsors high ...

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. There is ...

Rural Poor Aren't Sharing In Spoils of China's Changes. Costs of Goods Rise, Standard of Living Falls. July 11, 2005. By Peter S. Goodman. SANBAIHU VILLAGE, China ...

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 ...

The grandmother of the Huang family, Zhu Huaxiang, climbs a mountain with her daughter-in-law, Li Xiaowei, to cut wood for cooking and heating. It is hard work and sometimes the women climb the ...

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.

The most recent statistics published by China's state-owned media showed that of China's top two schools, Peking University had a rural population of 16.3 percent in 1999 (down from 50 percent to ...

Poisoned by poverty: China boy, 6, and girl, 4, ... Distraught gran from poor rural family was trying to make ends meet; Reading Time: 2 minutes. Why you can trust SCMP. Yating Yang in Beijing.

Human Rights Watch called on China and Pakistan to take action to end bride trafficking, warning in an April 26 statement of “increasing evidence that Pakistani women and girls are at risk of ...