[ translation ] New York Times: The prosperity of China have not yet kindness and poor( English-Chinese contrast)

Lu Zhen13Day is "New York Times" to have reported the poverty problem of China , has very much careful observation, write very deep. But already some translation is not complete , has not been translated especially a lot critical content, I make to mend to translate. Others translation error I directly take to use , do the modification of a little only. Level is limited, translation has the place of improperliness perhaps , so at the same time offers the contrast draft of Chinese and English , facilitates check. January 13, 2008 Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China ' s Boom By HOWARD W. FRENCH YANGMIAO, China-When she gets sick, Li Enlan, 78, picks herbs from the woods that grow nearby instead of buying modern medicines. That is not a result of some philosophical choice, though. She has never seen a doctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager barter economy, seldom coming into contact with cash. "We eat somehow, but it ' s never enough, " Ms. Li said. " At least we ' re not starving. 2008Year1Month13Day The prosperity Author: HOWARD W. FRENCH Replenish Chinese78The poplar of year-old temple( sound) village Min-Li-En-Lan( sound) falls ill , in she goes to nearby woods collection medicinal herbs, instead of buy modern medicine. But this is not to stem from the consideration on what idea. It is the same that she never see the doctor and a lot of persons that live in this place, she connection Chu the opportunity of cash is few, error is the life of a kind of backward thing exchange. " we have in any case to eat , In this region of southern Henan Province, in village after village, people are too poor to heat their homes in the winter and many lack basic comforts like running water. Mobile phones, a near ubiquitous symbol of upward mobility throughout much of this country, are seen as an impossible luxury. People here often begin conversations with a phrase that is still not uncommon in today ' s China: " We are poor. " In this slice of region of Henan province south, village peoples are poor in, winter home lets not go up is warm, a lot of household lacks picture the basic life condition tap water. A lot of places of this country nearly have no place not when mobile phone have been been regard as here cannot Qi and luxury goods. Village peoples Feng person frequently say is when now Chinese not rare a word - - " we are poor. " China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but the persistence of destitution in places like southern Henan Province fits with the findings of a recent World Bank study that suggests that there are still300million poor in China-three times as many as the bank previously estimated. For near 30 years, China has made countless one get rid of poverty, its number is more than any other countries, but when picture these places of Henan province south, poor phenomenon is still lasting , is confirming recently a investigation discovery of world bank, China still has3The impoverished ' s geographic and social margins , whether the mountainous areas or deserts that ring the country , or areas dominated by ethnic minorities , who for cultural and historic reasons have benefited far less than others from the country' s long economic rise of Poverty is most severe in China. The region of the cultural edge and region that is in China is most poor. For example, remote mountain area or desert, or is minority nationality inhabits a region district, because of cultural or historical reason, in economic development, gain advantage is smaller than other places. But it also persists in places like Henan, where population densities are among the greatest in China, and the new wealth of the booming coast beckons, almost mockingly, a mere province away. But this kind of condition is also so in Henan, this Henan province is the one of most dense province of Chinese population , but can only see the coastal region of a province that separates to be vigorous to develop helplessly , wealth is growing. "Henan has the largest population of any province, approaching100million people, and the land there just cannot support those kinds of numbers, " said Albert Keidel, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an expert on Chinese poverty. " It is supposed to be a breadbasket, but there has always been major discrimination against grain-based areas in China. The profit you can get from a hectare of land from vegetables, or a fish farm or oils, is so much more. " The base international peaceful foundation high-grade1100 million, land raises do not live so many persons. " this expert who at the same time studies Chinese poverty problem still still says: " China produces the discrimination of district for cereal is still very serious, because of also a hectare land, if kind vegetable , fish culture or extract oil , gain advantage is more. " Other experts say Henan and other heavily populated parts of the Chinese heartland are often excluded from the financial support that goes to the coastal areas, and what antipoverty measures there are have little effect. Typically, residents of those areas say, money intended for them is appropriated by corrupt local officials, who pocket it or divert it to business investments. Other experts think that the financial support of government often flows to coastal region, the population big provinces of Henan and other inland regions have been removed frequently in the outside measure of charitable undertakings there, have very tiny results. What is most typical is that the common people of these regions says that subsidy is peculated to their money by local septic official , is not the pocket that has directly flowed into corrupt official, have been turned to use make commercial investment. Paradoxically, they say, they are overlooked precisely because of their proximity to the major economic centers of the east, forced to fend for themselves on the theory that they can make do with income sent home by migrant laborers and other forms of trickle-down wealth. Through other forms, what is contradictory is that they say that these regions have been overlooked , are just because they are near the major economic center of east, so external world thinks them may with a view to return the money of home with the people of job hunting and flow out the wealth entered from plan way out. "Previous poverty alleviation policy focused more on western China, places like Gansu, Qinghai or Guizhou, which were poorer, " said Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the National Economic Research Institute, a Beijing nongovernmental organization. " Besides, the situation in the border regions is more complicated, because if things go wrong there, it becomes more than a poverty problem. That ' s why policy leaned toward them. " National economic vice-director Wang Xiao Lu who studies association ( sound) says , " the initial policy west of charitable undertakings concentrated in China, like Gansu, Qinghai and Guizhou, there, it is more poor, " this association is a non government organization that is located in Beijing. King says , " besides, the condition of border region is more complex, because if there is unwell, that is not only poverty problem. This is why policy the reason of always being partial to there. " Here in Henan ' s rural Gushi County, only 73,000 of1.4million farmers fall below the official poverty level of$94a year, which is supposed to be enough to cover basic needs, including maintaining a daily diet of 2,000 calories. " We should bear in mind that this poverty standard is very low, " Mr. Wang said, echoing the view of many Chinese economists. The minimum poverty94The living cost140Still have7.3The persons of 10 thousand can't reach this standard. Mr Many more people in this part of Henan subsist between the official poverty line and the$1a day standard long used by the World Bank. The World Bank ' s estimate of the number of poor people in China was tripled to300million from100million last month, after a new survey of prices altered the picture of what a dollar can buy. The new standard was set according to what economists call purchasing power parity. By the new calculations, estimates of the overall size of the Chinese economy also shrank by40percent. In Henan, more person is1The world bank poor standard1100 million, and the3100 million,1The purchasing power of U.S. dollar is reached afterwards. New standard is basis economist says same set than purchasing power. According to this new calculation, standard and the economic scale of China have withered40%. Peasants here are the first to tell a visitor that whatever the statistics say, they remain mired in deep poverty. Villagers throughout this county said several recent, highly publicized measures by the central government to improve the lot of peasants had produced only a modest effect on their lives. They included an abolition of agricultural taxes for peasants, the cancellation of school tuition for their children and new pension and health care plans that appear on paper to be more generous for the rural poor. On its pipe statistics, how to say , it will say first that they are in poor abyss if the peasant of here meets outsider. The village people of whole village says that the influence of the high-sounding words advocation in recent years of central government that will raise the measure of peasant income and lives for them is very little. The central government's policy includes canceling agricultural tax, avoid the cost of the compulsory education , still have the new countryside plan of medical insurance, it is grace that these policies of writing on paper seem to reach for the poor of countryside. Since most peasants here have only a glancing contact with the cash economy, the tax exemption is largely irrelevant. Even with the abolishment of tuition, many said, they were still squeezed by a proliferation of other school fees. Similarly, others said, participation fees and deductibles placed the pension and rural health insurance plans out of their financial reach. Because it is close that the most peasants of here contact with currency economy, tax-free with them relation is not large. Even if having avoided tuition, many persons say that other school costs are still many, they still deliver not. Also, a lot of persons also say , the plan of medical insurance of countryside also not is their financial resources can bear to. "We ' re deadly poor, " said Zhou Zhiwen, a55-year-old woman in Yangmiao whose brick house marks her as better off than most people, who still live in earthen structures. " We grow just enough food for ourselves to eat, with no surplus grain. ' t have to pay the grain tax anymore , but our lives aren' t much better of We don. " Poplar55Week of year-old Zhi writing( sound) says , " we are poor and dead. " she lives in brick house, compared with is still the good in the most persons of adobe room, " the grain that we grow eats really, have no surplus grain. Though now, need not deliver agricultural tax, may live to have no what improvement. " Asked how she managed, Ms. Zhou said she received help occasionally from relatives who had migrated elsewhere for work. " If people lived well at home, who would want to migrate, " she said. " All of our young people are working elsewhere. " When have been asked about her how to live , in week, Ms says in outside job hunting that she has relative , can help to her occasionally. " if have a good time in domestic time, who is willing to go out to find a job. " she says , " our young person goes to other places to work. " For many villagers, the central government is out of touch with rural realities in places like this, and the local government is filled with venal officials who shower spending intended for the rural poor on provincial towns and cities or simply take the money for themselves. For a lot of village peoples, central government is day high emperor is far, and local government floods the officer that spends money to buy , these officials want the originally this money given poor throw to the city of place, want the purse squeezed in directly into self. "Ordinary people don ' t get any real benefits from poverty alleviation programs, " said Li Guangyi, 35, a farmer who lives in the village of Zhangyoufang. " How could relief money get into our hands? It goes first toward relieving the local officials, who get rich on the tragedies of the nation. " 35The oil mill of year-old( sound) village people Li broad sense( sound) says: " is usual, common people and can not is from the gain advantage in the project of charitable undertakings really , relief money in Za can go to our hand? It is to relieve local lead first , they are sending suffering wealth. " David Dollar, a World Bank official in Beijing, played down the importance of the central government in relieving poverty, saying provincial results had much more to do with the success of local officials in creating an attractive investment climate. Stay the world bank official David %26S226 of Beijing; Many La-Ers do not value the role of central government in supporting the poor area , he has to still see local official as a result under the climate that says at present this kind of attraction to make investment. Much of the remaining poverty, he said, involved households that lacked migrant laborers or able-bodied workers. " Very often poverty is related to a health shock or an injury, or the lack of an able-bodied person, " Mr. Dollar said. " Traditionally, the Chinese government approach has been helping the village grow, but if there are few able-bodied people, you have to work on safety net issues. " He says , a lot of impoverished peoples lack to go out to be engaged in industry people or the household of strong labourer force. " the usually poor lack of disease, accident or labor ability is related , " many Mr La-Ers say , " tradition goes up , Chinese government can help countryside development, but if labor is too few, you have to work with great efforts for own safe problem. " In Gushi County, however, even families with members who migrated east for work remained stuck in poverty, and the situation of the migrants themselves often remained precarious. But when start firmly county, even household Shen Kexia, 33, who left her village with her husband for work in Hangzhou, a booming southern coastal city, recently returned home for the birth of her second daughter. She and her husband plan to leave their two daughters with Ms. Shen ' s elderly parents as soon as the baby is big enough. 33Year state Ke the( sound) departure of rosy clouds her village, find a job together with husband in Hangzhou, Hangzhou is the city of a Chinese south coastal prosperity, recently, she has been delivered of her second daughter home. She and husband plan , so long as this little daughter counts , reserve this two daughters to own old parents taking care. "If my in-laws get sick, we won ' t be able to leave, " she said. " We ' re home to have this baby because we cannot afford to in Hangzhou , but if we have money , we won' t come " it does not be opened that if my parents-in-law have fallen ill , we go , " she says , " we give birth to child home, it is to not take the cost in Hangzhou because we bear , if we are rich, we will not return. " Original text: Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China Http: / /www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/world/asia/13china.html? 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