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China's size, the significance of its poultry industry locally and internationally, the avian flu outbreaks to date, and its large population, underscore the scale and scope of the challenge facing the country. | |
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|  | | | | |  | | Decentralization
During the last two decades China has transitioned from a largely deconcentrated system to one that incorporates elements of delegation and devolution. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Education
The World Bank has supported some 20 education projects in China since 1981, with a shift in emphasis from urban-based higher education projects in the early years to a more recent emphasis on rural poverty based basic education projects. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Energy and Mining
China is the second largest producer of electricity in the world and its power demand growth is also among the world's highest. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Environment
China's rapid growth is now a driving force in the global economy. However, growth is also seriously damaging the natural resource base and generating major environmental liabilities. | |
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| | | | | | |  | | Health Nutrition & Population
The World Bank has primarily been helping China to deliver quality health services to the poor and to reform its approach to health care financing. | |
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| | | | | |  | | HIV/AIDS
Support to HIV/AIDS activities in China includes 31 prefectures in four target provinces. There is ongoing analytic work on policy options. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Labor & Social Protection
In the transition to a market economy and an industrial and urban society, the social protection system that China inherited from the pre-transition era has become increasingly non-sustainable and ill suited to address the emerging social risks. | |
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|  | | | | |  | | Microfinance
The Microfinance Gateway recently completed a four part series on microfinance in China: | |
| | |  | Highlight on China, Part 1: A View of the Landscape (Isern, J. & Zou, L.)
Olympian efforts underway to expand access to finance in China | | | | Highlight on China, Part 2: Financial Service Providers (Isern, J., Yang, X., & Zou, Li)
Interviews with leading financial service providers in China | | | | Highlight on China, Part 3: Development Partner Perspectives (Zou, L. & Isern, J.)
Interviews with GTZ, World Bank and UNDP, development partners in China | | | | Highlight on China, Part 4: The Policy Perspective (Isern, J., Zou, L. & Yang, X.)
Interviews with key regulators and policy-makers in China | | | | |
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| | | | | |  | | Private Sector Development
The World Bank and IFC are involved in China's corporate reform agenda through investments and provision of analytical and advisory assistance. | |
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| | | | | | |  | | Rural Development
Shaping the World Bank's rural strategy is the fact that approximately 600 million Chinese still dependent on farming for their livelihoods face stagnating incomes and a deteriorating natural resource base. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Social Development
The World Bank is hoping to assess the suitability of community-driven development in China as a means to provide poor communities with capacity and resources to improve their living conditions. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Transport
China has become one of the fastest countries in building one of the most diverse transportation networks in the world. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Urban Development
World Bank lending and analytic assistance has increasingly focused on development of productive, livable, and well-managed cities in China. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Youth
The World Bank China Office and the All-China Youth Federation set up a Youth Consultative Group to focus on the priority areas of the Bank’s youth strategy and tailored it to the characteristics and development needs of Chinese youth. | |
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