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Yehua Dennis Wei (Chinese: 魏也华, born in Zhejiang, China in 1963) is a Chinese-American geographer.He is a professor in the Department of Geography and a senior scholar in the Institute of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah.
Traditional political ideology promotes merit-based inequality. Official propaganda emphasizes that economic development requires some people to get rich first, and the resulting inequality is the price this society pays for development. [6] China's traditional political consciousness promotes inequality based on performance.
Spatial inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions. [1] Attributable to local differences in infrastructure, [2] geographical features (presence of mountains, coastlines, particular climates, etc.) and economies of agglomeration, [3] such inequality remains central to public policy discussions regarding economic inequality more broadly.
Social issues in China are wide-ranging, and are a combined result of Chinese economic reforms set in place in the late 1970s, the nation's political and cultural history, and an immense population. Due to the significant number of social problems that have existed throughout the country, China's government has faced difficulty in trying to ...
China Today is a news program that focuses on news issues and current affairs around China. China Today 30 minute's episodes are broadcast on CCTV-9 at 22:00 China Standard Time ( UTC +8), or 14:00 UTC every day, and rebroadcasts twice at 01:00 and 07:00 UTC+8 the next morning, or 17:00 and 23:00 UTC.
China's fight against data-driven inequality could also hamper prosperity. Web 3.0 is one solution but will the Communist party embrace it? China’s Digital Inequality Dilemma: Open-Source ...
Such efforts to level spatial inequality continued during the Great Leap Forward, but the regional inequality persisted. Compared with the 1952 provincial ranking, the richest provinces maintained their top rankings in 1964, while the poorest stayed at the bottom. [102] Spatial disparities among regions persisted from 1963 onward.
In a landmark paper published in the Review of Development Economics, economists Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang conclude that there have been three peaks of inequality in China in the last fifty years, “coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s.” [4 ...