China's Rural Achievements in the Past Decade

Primary students go home after school in Linze County, Gansu Province on March 13, 2008. The Compulsory Education Law amended in 2006 cancels school fees in primary and junior middle education, benefitting 150 million rural students. [Xinhua]

Residential buildings after integrated planning in Sanyuanzhu Village in Shandong Province. Chinese rural residents had 36.2 square meters of housing area per capita in 2011, compared with 9.7 square meters in 2002. [Xinhua]