A study involving 20,000 children in China said Thursday that poor kids are far less likely to be nearsighted than their wealthier peers. Nearsightedness, or myopia, was twice as prevalent in the ...

Challenges for Children in China. Despite country-wide statistics, many children in China face critical threats to childhood – especially those “left behind” in remote, rural areas, including ethnic ...

Non-governmental groups give poor children in China a leg-up SPH Brightcove Video. In Gansu, many children grow up under the care of illiterate grandparents as their parents leave to seek better jobs.

Nutrition Program Boosts Poor Students In China Migrant workers' children at the Dandelion Middle School in Beijing were given three meals fortified with micronutrients each day for eight months ...

State media says kids aged five to 13, ... Despite that, more than 82 million rural Chinese continue to live below the poverty line, set by China at 2,300 yuan ($376) or less, or $1 a day. China; ...

In India, 60% of all children were classed as "absolutely poor", with almost half of all children under five malnourished. Plan said India also had the highest number of working children in the world.

Promised a path to prosperity through hard work and education, China’s working class youths are hitting immovable ceilings.

Many in China have worried that poor children in rural areas — who have been the accused in some of the highest-profile cases — are being abandoned as a price of economic progress.

China's population declined in 2022, and authorities would like to encourage births. But many women feel they have too much to lose in marriage and motherhood. Tuesday, June 17, 2025 3:22 pm (Paris) ...