China
Asia
Capital Beijing
Population 1.3 billion
Life Expectancy 73.47
Access to clean water 88%
Adult Literacy 90.9%
Under five mortality 20.25 per 1,000 live births
GDP per head (US$ PPP) $6,000
Helping China’s migrant youth adjust to life in the big city
In the biggest migration in human history, more than 200 million rural people have migrated to China’s urban centers, many of them youth who are ill-prepared to cope with city life. The MDG-F is helping them build the skills to adjust.
Our Joint Programmes
The China Climate Change Partnership FrameworkClimate change presents a challenge to global achievement of MDGs and sustaining hard won gains of developing countries.
The China Culture and Development Partnership FrameworkThe programme has two aims: first to support China in designing and implementing policies that promote the rights of its ethnic minority groups (106 million people) in the five provinces in which they are concentrated: Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Yunnan and Guizhou. This will be achieved by building government capacity to undertake rights and culture-based development, and by building capacity of minority communities to participate. Protecting and Promoting the Rights of China's Vulnerable MigrantsChina’s migrant workforce of 150 million represents the largest movement of people in modern history. But, maximising the benefits of internal migration, while mitigating its adverse effects, is a difficult balancing act. Most migrants leave rural communities at a young age with few skills and can only obtain work that is, at best, manual and menial – and at worst, severely exploitative.
Improving nutrition and food safety for China's most vulnerable women and childrenChina’s impressive progress on reducing hunger has relied mainly on increasing incomes and food production. As rural/urban disparities in income and nutrition widen to globally unprecedented levels, it will require a more targeted approach to reach the 123 million people still undernourished, including 7 million stunted children.
IN THE NEWS
China is first developing country to reach MDG of halving its poverty rate
Number of poor Chinese has decreased from 94 million in 2000 to 27 million.
STORIES
Chinese farmers switch crops to adapt to climate change
For decades, farmers like Mr. Ma grew spring rapeseed, but climate change has forced them to abandon the practice. The MDG-F is introducing crops and techniques to help growers adapt to the new weather patterns.