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World
Bank-funded ecological program improves Chinese farmers' lives
06/23/2003
Farmers of Jungar Banner, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region, have found their lives improved gradually by a World Bank-funded
program designed to improve local environment and help them get
ride of poverty.
China
urges international community to eradicate poverty 06/10/2003
A senior Chinese official urged on June 10 the international community
to work together in a bid to eradicate poverty.
Ningxia
receives software donation 04/02/2003
Education software with a combined value of 115 million yuan (13.86
million US dollars) was donated in Yinchuan on April 2 to Northwest
China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to help the digitization of
local educational resources.
Gabonese
officials study anti-poverty efforts in Guizhou 03/31/2003
A group of government officials from Gabon recently visited Anshun
City of Southwest China's Guizhou Province to study China's efforts
in fighting poverty.
Helping
hand for changing China 02/20/2003
Joint efforts between China and Britain are being stepped up to
address the problems of unemployment and urban poverty that China
is encountering during its economic transition, after yesterday's
launch of the Sino-British Unemployment Insurance Project.
Canada's
aid aims to reduce poverty 01/14/2003
Canada is working closely with the Chinese Government to help more
people in western regions of China shake off poverty, said the minister
for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Sino-Germany
joint poverty relief project completed in Henan Province 12/18/2002
A poverty relief project jointly sponsored by China and Germany
has been completed in Central China's Henan Province after fours
years in construction.
China
to actively participate in fight against global poverty
09/28/2002
Washington - A senior Chinese delegate to the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund annual meeting said on September 28
that China will join the international community in the fight against
global poverty.
ADB
to increase annual lending by 50% to China 09/18/2002
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said that it planned to increase
its annual lending to China by 50 percent to US$1.5 billion starting
next year, AFP reported.
Handicapped
orphan under care 09/18/2002
Professor from the Medical
center attached to the US Stanford University takes a check before
surgery for a Chinese handicapped boy from a welfare house at Tianjin
City Hospital Sep. 17, 2002.
Intel
aids Tibet in computer education 09/01/2002
An Intel-funded computer classroom opened in Tibet, southwest China,
Saturday to promote computer science in the autonomous region.
Chinese
President meets Lions Club Int'l delegation 08/29/2002
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Wednesday that China hopes to
see constant development of the good cooperative relations between
China and the Lions Club International (LCI), a well-known welfare
organization based in the United States.
World
summit on sustainable development opens 08/27/2002
Delegates from China attend the opening session of the World Summit
on Sustainble Development in Johannesburg August 26, 2002.
UN
program helps Chinese country women shake off poverty
08/10/2002
"A hen for a buffalo" is always a profitable deal say
some village women in southwest China's Yunnan province when talking
about a United Nations (UN) loan program available to them.
Hewitt
to help welfare reform in Liaoning 07/17/2002
Hewitt Associates, a US-based outsourcing and consulting firm, has
been selected by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to assist in a
social security reform pilot program in Northeast China's Liaoning
Province.
Red
Cross facilitates flood relief
07/11/2002
The Red Cross Society of China announced yesterday that donations
to China's flood-devastated regions from both home and abroad have
reached 32 million yuan (US$3.8 million) by last Friday.
Japan
makes donation to poverty relief program in China 06/24/2002
China and Japan in Beijing Monday signed a government document for
a poverty relief program in Tian Hu, a poverty stricken area in
southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
UN
eyes poor women in China 10/25/2001
The theme for this year's United Nations Day was "rural women
fighting hunger to reduce poverty." And here in China, UN agencies
held a photo contest of pictures snapped by rural Chinese women.
UNDP
steps up co-operation programmes in China 04/24/2001
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the largest UN
organization, will expand its support to China in coming years,
focusing on poverty eradication, environmental protection, training
and HIV/AIDS control, top officials from the agency said.
Britain
helps poverty relief program in Yunnan 04/12/2001
The Chinese Government and the Department for International Development
(DFID) of the British Government have jointly kicked off a project
aimed at helping protect the environment and eradicate poverty in
Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
World
Bank to help poor 03/30/2001
The World Bank has pledged to co-operate with China by providing
its international experience and technology to help reduce poverty
in China's western regions.
World
Bank backs up poverty relief programme 12/28/2000
NANNING: Some 900,000 poor people in South China's Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region have benefited from a poverty eradication programme
financed by the World Bank (WB).
A
long way to go for global poverty reduction 09/16/2000
GENEVA: The percentage of the poor in developing countries has declined
from 29 per cent in 1990 to 24 per cent in 1998, the leaders of
the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations declared in their
Summit Communique from Okinawa on July 23.
World
Bank's poverty relief project in South China pays off 07/13/2000
Poverty-stricken people in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region have been able to improve their living conditions with the
support of loans from the World Bank.
UN
to help farmers escape poverty 04/29/2000
The United Nations World Food Programme and China are undertaking
a five-year poverty-relief project to help 400,000 families in the
Qinling Mountains in Central China.
UN
Officials inspect poverty relief work in Guangxi 04/25/2000
A United Nations delegation Tuesday started their four-day tour
to inspect poverty relief work in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region.
Australia
aids China in relieving poverty 03/24/2000
Australia will lend China a hand for its rural development, poverty
alleviation and resources management in China's vast western regions,
David Taylor Irvine, the new Australian ambassador to China, said
yesterday in Beijing.
WFP
official: More food aid for China 03/14/2000
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will continue to provide
food aid to China through 2005, a senior WFP official has revealed.
WFP
helps Chinese women out of poverty 03/06/2000
Once an ordinary housewife, dependant on her husband's poor income,
Ren Yuhua has now been able to make a living on her own. With a
credit loan of 1,000 yuan (US$120) and skills learnt about breeding,
she bought two sheep in October 1998 and soon earned more than 2,000
yuan (US$240) in profit with the 10 lambs born to the two sheep.
Better
life starts with a little help 02/17/2000
Tao Xiuying, 53, can at last be proud of her family. "We are
now better off," she said. When she was in poor health, Tao
could not be a big help to her husband and children. Her family
used to be one of the poorest in Bajiaoping Village, Jinping County
of Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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