In addition, those rural areas chosen for the surveys were somewhat more prosperous and educated than the Chinese countryside as a whole.

The seizure of farmland by local officials for economic development has become one of the most contentious issues in the Chinese countryside.

Family planning policies have relaxed significantly in the Chinese countryside, but not here, where one child to a family is still the rule.

The struggle to survive in the Chinese countryside has greatly eased.

But here in the Chinese countryside the body was given over to the family to be washed, clothed, and cremated or buried.

The decision stunned local leaders and highlighted the impact of an illness that mysteriously emerged from the Chinese countryside only a few months ago.

Changhong's previous efforts to maintain growth by expanding sales in the Chinese countryside had fizzled.

Huafang's 30,000 employees are mostly young women who were lured here from small villages in the Chinese countryside.

From the 1st century onwards, chain pumps were widespread throughout the Chinese countryside.

He recalls the story of a man who has a bicycle accident in the Chinese countryside and breaks his hip.