{"id":4543,"date":"2005-09-23T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/09\/23\/education-can-break-vicious-poverty-cycle-xinhua\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T22:40:56","slug":"education-can-break-vicious-poverty-cycle-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/09\/education-can-break-vicious-poverty-cycle-xinhua\/","title":{"rendered":"Education can break vicious poverty cycle &#8211; Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2005-09\/23\/content_3531461.htm\">From Xinhua<\/a>:<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStatistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though.<\/p>\n<p>On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country&#8217;s less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Liu Xiaoyun, a scholar with China Agricultural University, disclosed that there are the same number of people in China still in the grip of poverty. Again, they are rural residents or migrant &#8220;floating&#8221; groups from rural areas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Xinhua: Statistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though. On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country&#8217;s less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions. 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