In rural China, grown son's families usually take care of aging parents.

Rural China, now home to about two-thirds of the population, may one day have barely 10 percent.

Just imagine a country where they have no hard currency - think of rural China in the 1980's.

This is a step in the right direction, and will hopefully present rural China with real changes.

In rural China, girls don't usually begin menstruation until age 15.

She was the first writer to choose rural China as her subject matter.

And the money they send home has become essential for jobless rural China.

"We had no idea that the old order in much of rural China was in deep crisis," he said.

In rural China, every large family makes its separate peace with the local family planning system.

Hard to tell how long this chore will take; time moves slowly in rural China.