Rural Life Of China And China

People’s Republic of China is not only a country with five thousand years history, but with various geographic physical features as well. As the third biggest country in the world, with an area of about 9,600,000 km2 (3,700,000 sq mi), China stretches five time zones in East Asian landmass with more than 1.35 billion inhabitants. Generally, China is high in the west and descends to the east, devided into three stages, so most rivers flow west-east. In this paper, we experience the different environment, weather, how people affect environment, and political geography through traveling.

Rural women struggled under the double burden of both work and child rearing (Roberts, 1999). And, infamously, the one-child family policy, which required most Chinese families to have only a single child, robbed women of any control over their own bodies. This paper will recount the history of the Chinese government’s struggle with its growing population, culminating in the one-child policy, describe the goals and enforcement methods of the policy itself, examine the effectiveness of the policy, outline the government’s shift to its new, current two-child policy, and argue that the one-child policy shows the continuation of female repression in China, despite the Communists’ promises.

Despite extensive criticism, proponents of the measure feel that it has improved life in China. The policy, implemented in 1979, “was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic and environmental problems in China” (Cabrera). Supporters of the policy claim that is has been successful. One measurement of a country’s success is its financial growth and China has seen an improvement in that respect. “With that rapid GDP growth, has come better nutrition, rising levels of education, longer life expectancies, and higher living standards for the vast majority of Chinese people.” (Azubel 2). Unfortunately, that financial growth has had little impact on the isolated farms and villages.

As many other countries around the world China has its long history of a struggle for equality and prosperity against tyrants and dictatorships. The establishment of People’s Republic of China in 1949 seemed to have put an end to that struggle for a better life. “The Chinese people have stood up!” declared Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of China’s Communist Party (CPP) – a leading political force in the country for the time. The people were defined as a coalition of four social classes: the workers, the peasants, the petite bourgeoisie and the national-capitalists. The four classes were to be led buy the CPP, as the leader of the working class.

Brief Introduction: Document 8.2 is the first four sections of “Mao Zedong’s Report on an Investigation of Peasant Movement in Hunan”, which was written by Mao Zedong when he visited Hunan province in 1927. In this document, from personal perspective, Mao argued the importance of the peasant issues, then described how the peasant associations became organized, how the peasants fought with the local tyrants and gentry, and how they became powerful in rural areas. Finally, Mao gave his own definition of “It’s terrible!” and “It’s fine!”.

Rural workers who move to cities, seeking for employment opportunities, are captured and sent back to their hometown, because the government thinks they are the source of crimes and that they should be tracked down to maintain China’s public image. All-China Women foundation and constitutions were launched to preserve and enforces rights of women and rural residents in political, economic, culture and family life, though no improvement was done by the government.

Why rural areas experiencing higher rates of obesity and overweight?? It has been acknowledged that rural settings are lacking health care facilities and proper resources needed to address this health concern and proper infrastructure to encourage physical activities. There is a limited access to healthy and affordable food in such

Ever since the 1980s, China had begun a great push toward urban modernization. Unsustainable, however, this push for continued urbanization dramatized an already problematic urban and rural disparity. In turn, this also fed into other major sociopolitical issues. Among them were environmental degradation and many food safety scandals, which threatened China’s consumer confidence.

In India, some of the worst off will earn daily wages by scouring through piles of trash looking for recyclables to sell for money. The definition of wealth in the slums is determined by a person’s ability to afford shelter for their plastic. 60 million Indians live in the Urban slums and 300 million under the World Bank poverty line - $1.25 per day (91). In china, the poor face the same issues. Although China has made considerable efforts to help out their poor, but their efforts continue to fall short. As living conditions continue to stay rough, people continue to move towards the cities, farmers are abandoning their land and crops in search for higher incomes. However, for a while, the migrants were rejected city services. Often children and spouses are separated for long periods of time, in most cases young parents are forced to send their children home to their village while they work in city factories in order to send money home. A large issue is that people in China are historically unaware of the labor laws that the should be followed (94). In both countries, even when people are aware of the social services they could receive, most are not allowed to get bank accounts, the only means they would have to receive government compensation. Plus, both countries have historical caste systems that often prevent any economic mobility (98). Most of the time, caste systems will determine where

There is a disproportionate allocation of health resources between urban and rural areas, and in addition poverty in rural areas may be multi-faceted. Food insecurity, illiteracy, poor sanitation, and dominance of communicable diseases may all contribute, which suggests that both policy makers and local governments may be undermining and under-prioritizing the looming threat of diabetes. Inadequacies contribute to an infrastructure that may result in poor diabetes screening and preventive services, non-adherence to diabetic management guidelines, lack of available counseling, and long distance travel to health services. Aged care facilities in rural areas report disparity in the diabetes management compared with their urban counterparts, with these populations more likely to suffer from diabetic complications compared to their urban counterparts. More needs to be done to address the rural-urban inequality in diabetes intervention (Kaveeshwar, S. A., & Cornwall, J.,

Since the agricultural revolution, ninety-nine percent of humanity had worked the fields of agriculture in order to survive. Almost nobody had been able to move away from the fields to cities, and people in the cities had almost never wanted to stop being a craftsman to begin a new life as a farmer. Although the latter point remains true to this day, the former has been dramatically altered. With innovations in agriculture as simple as hardened iron plows and better irrigation, slightly more people could make their homes in cities. With the innovation of steam power and the reaper in the late 18th and early 19th century, many more people had to leave farming as farm production increased to join in the steam powered industry in the cites. With

Dr. Hao Jingfang works for the China Development Research Foundation which helps advance and promote economic development and social progress. She conducts research with an emphasis on rural poverty and presents recommendations to the government. Dr. Hao has witnessed and learned about China’s development over the last century, such as the Cultural Revolution-the birth of communist ideals- and capitalism. China transformed their system and has been ascending economically for the last several decades. Dr. Hao Jingfang had also witnessed its side effects: the excellent ever increasing gross domestic product(GDP) and the not so good effects of increased poverty. Another one of the of the not so spectacular side effects are how the wealth,

Having spent nearly ten years in a rural area in China, I witnessed the type of lifestyle that many people suffered from. It was not an abnormal thing to see people collecting unwanted and dirty vegetables on the ground in public markets, and it was very common to have beggars coming to my house and asking for food. Although my family has not been financially successful, they

This ability to maintain strong economic growth was able to counter the political outfall and depletion of legitimacy to the government (Pei, 1994). Today, China is one of the few countries that has been able to survive the recent democratization and is now a mix of Soviet era totalitarianism and state driven capitalism (Kopstein, Lichbach, and Hanson, 2014). While it is still a communist nation, in the rural countryside there are competitive elections that some believe could spread, and once the economic development eventually slows and structural changes at that time could spurn political participation and increase the demand for democracy. It is still easy to see the regime in China, although the economy continues to grow, little regulations make for hard and dangerous working conditions for many, including children, and those who don’t end up in labor the labor sector go through a restrictive school system where only the best and brightest advance adding to the inequality (Han, Xu, personal interview, 2016).

The liberalisation of their markets and the mobilisation of 1 billion workers allowed huge wealth to be generated and huge disparities to develop. The biggest differences in China are between rural and urban areas, particularly between the megacities of the East and the ethnic rural areas of the East (Including Tibet), culturally there are huge differences with the Han Chinese having far more opportunities and wealth. The restrictions in China on rural to urban migration mean that rural dwellers do not have the same opportunities as those in the cities. China as a result has the largest disparity between its citizens, both economically and socially, It’s not just NIC’s that have huge disparities in wealth, MEDC’s such as the USA also suffer from widespread disparity, this was clearly seen during Hurricane Katrina where the majority of the dead were poorer Afro Caribbean communities who did not have access to education, information or basic transport. This is a problem across America where those who can engage with ‘The American Dream’ have access to huge wealth and opportunity but those born into poor areas statistically stay poor. The world’s largest economy should not have hundreds of thousands of homeless people on their streets.