Source: CCTV.com
02-10-2009 09:28
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Background Report:
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Intro:
The worst dry spell in fifty years threatens to undermine the Chinese Government’s enormous campaign to stimulate the spending of rural consumers. There is a big rural population of six hundred million and two hundred million farmer-turned-migrant workers. But up to 20 million migrant workers have been made jobless by the economic downturn. How shall we assess the consequences arising from the drought and the widespread financial crisis? What will be done to fight the water shortage and to ensure the normal livelihoods of ordinary farmers and livestock? This is obviously the centerpiece of the latest No. one document of the State Council.
