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China's Education System
China Education System: Past, Present, and Future.

Jocelyn F. Smith
Global Operations and Strategy School of Professional Studies
Professor: Emilio Iodice

It is hard to deny a country economic growth that has increased 9.3 percent in one year. China has made great contributions in growth to its income per capita, much faster than any other region in the world. This is a good move for a large country with a large rural population. China rural poverty population has decreased by a big margin. "According to China 's national poverty line, rural poverty population has dropped from 250 million in 1978 to 28.2 million in 2002, decreasing by 88.7%. Poverty population has averagely decreased by 9.24 million per year. (Angang, Linlin, Zhixiao, 2004). The cost of living per capita per day is below $1.00, the World Bank estimates. China is the country with the largest population and has the largest poverty population, making unprecedented achievements in poverty reduction. The relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction is not simplistic. It is not the rate of economic growth but the quality of economic growth that actually plays an important role. Since the 1990s, the economic development of many developing countries, especially that of east Asia demonstrates that although economic growth plays an important supporting role in social development, rapid economic growth will still produce deconstructive effects on environment and resources. China 's economic growth has tightly connected the country 's development with the rest of the world in terms of expanding trade and investment ties. China has expanded as a market for raw material and component products from other countries and region. There growth has also increased their domestic markets that are now estimated to include up to 100 million middle and upper income (people earning $7,000 per year). China has experience the largest population removing in the world since the policy of



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