Access to adequate health care is crucial to social and economic development, as healthy human capital fosters productivity and economic growth. Comprehensive reforms have enabled China to improve health outcomes across the country, but significant gaps persist between urban and rural populations. Learn more with this ChinaPower exclusive.
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The China Development Tracker
China’s emergence as a global power is likely to be one of the most consequential factors in twenty-first century international politics. Yet questions persist as to whether China is now a developed country. Learn more about China’s level of development with this ChinaPower exclusive.
Developing or Developed? Assessing Chinese Life Expectancy
Although China’s economic transformation has generated considerable public resources, and its leaders have in recent decades dramatically improved domestic health conditions, the country still faces challenges in terms of improving health outcomes.