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An old woman rummages through a waste bin on Huai Hai road in downtown Shanghai. The United Nations recently warned that increasing wealth gap in China between urban and rural areas, which is among the highest in the world, could threaten the stability of the nation despite government efforts to counter the tide. Although efforts have lifted 250 million Chinese out of poverty in the last 25 years, the inequality gap has doubled.
14 May 2006
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