Corruption blurs China's goal of harmonious society
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PUYANG, China  - It's in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party's battle to narrow China's yawning wealth gap will be won or lost.
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China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but places like southern Henan Province still remain destitute.
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Opinion in China remains divided on whether the government is leaping into deals without a clear investment strategy.
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Child labor is a daily fact of life in China, experts say, and one that the government, preoccupied with economic growth, has traditionally turned a blind eye to.
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Chinese experts say the growing popularity of religious belief has been driven by social crises involving corruption and the expanding gap between rich and poor.
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The metamorphosis of a Communist Party expatriate to business consultant mirrors China's shift from a closed-door state to a freewheeling money-making society.
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BEIJING -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated law yesterday designed to help protect private property in an increasingly well off society.
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China steps up the fight against corruption, announcing plans for a new agency to spearhead efforts.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao puts clean government and sharing wealth fairly at the top of his political agenda.
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More than $900 million was misappropriated from ChinaÂs $37 billion social security fund in the countryÂs latest massive government fraud.
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If any doubts remained that China has turned its back on socialist equality for the masses, they faded in the exhaust fumes Sunday as Rubens Barrichello&#39;s flaming red Ferrari
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BEIJING  - China&#39;s leaders have wrapped up a key economic meeting pledging to strive for stable economic growth next year with an emphasis on quality and efficiency rather than simply a high growth rate.
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China questions efforts to tackle currency manipulation, saying poorer countries must be treated fairly.
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BEIJING -- The Communist Party cautioned China's increasingly impatient reformers and intellectuals yesterday that political liberalization and democracy are still a long way off despite the rapid pace of economic change during the past two decades.
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Three quarters of Communist China's economy will be non-state-owned by the end of this decade, state media reports, highlighting a clear trend of slipping state control.
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President Hu Jintao has said Western democratic reforms would lead China into a &quot;blind alley&quot; but he also lambasted the country's corrupt officials.
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An embezzlement scandal is barely standing out in China, where cases of bank corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars seem to pop up regularly.