Social Triumph

   Improvements in living standards are yet another mark of the triumph of the China's policy changes. Statistics of recent years indicate significant improvements in school enrollment, and a decrease in population growth from 2000-2005/the mortality rate for infant and under-five groups. Overall life expectancy has increased.
   This chart compares communication improvements in the 21st century with China's own middle income group and other East Asian countries. [pdf]

   In the SEZs, employment rates skyrocketed. A large number of foreign businesses sought to invest in China. (Fishman 273)

   
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