International contacts

Getting to know International Contacts

I have been able to get a response from any of the international professionals who I contacted. Therefore, I viewed the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre's website. I chose to read about China. China has the world's largest population at 1.27 billion in 2001. China has made great strides in reducing the percentage of people living in poverty. By 2001, 5 percent of China's population lived below the national poverty line. There has been a lot of economic and social transistion in China which has lead to the reduction in poverty. However, the poverty rate has increased in Western China. China has carefully used foreign investment. In fact, china receives more foreign investment than any other country in the world except for the US. 4.2 million Chinese children live in absolute poverty, and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged conditions.