Word: shanxi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million coastal dwellers are now prosperous, and tens of millions of township and village enterprises are thriving, 90 million hamlet dwellers in the interior are still stuck in subsistence farming and near feudal conditions. "Beijing has no extra money to spend on us," says an official in northern Shanxi province. "We were told we would be helped after the reforms took off in the south." Much of the north is still waiting. A businessman from Gansu province, where a quarter of the population is illiterate, complains, "We will always be 10 years behind Shenzhen." At least 100 million peasants have...