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Poverty Matters

NPRS-PRF Newsletter [ PDF ]

Reaching the Poor

Strengthening Inclusive Road Development and Management [ PDF ]

Conference on rural road networks

The conference will discuss the output of a TA project on the poverty impact of area-wide road networks, which helped develop the new PRC rural roads development plan for 2006-2010. EARD DG H. Satish Rao and PRC government officials will deliver the opening remarks.

News and Notices

PRC conference on rural road development and poverty impact underway EARD DG H. Satish Rao (pictured second from right), together with the First Vice Minister of Communications Weng Mengyong, opened the conference. The DG also met with senior officials from the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission. Read the speech.

Road safety campaign to curb No 1 killer*

Fewer road accidents, the No 1 killer in China, are expected during the festival season thanks to an ongoing national road safety campaign.

Thirty-one inspection teams from the Ministry of Public Security have been sent to all of China's provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to improve road safety, ministry officials said at a press conference yesterday in Beijing. >> more