CHINA: PEASANTS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN POVERTY

Mandarin/Nat Fifty years after the communist revolution in China hundreds of millions of peasants continue to live in poverty. Eroding incomes are fuelling a mass migration from the countryside to the cities. Now, with China on the verge of entering the new millennium, the very peasants who made the founding of the People’s Republic of China possible, represent one of the greatest threats to the country’s stability. China’s Northwestern Shaanxi Province is a land of mountains, shepherds and poor