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U.N.: China Standard of Living Threatened
Thu Mar 25,11:48 AM ET

By ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press Writer

SHANGHAI, China - Environmental damage from China's breakneck economic growth, the spread of AIDS (news - web sites) and growing poverty threaten the future of China's drive to better living standards, the United Nations (news - web sites) said in a report released Thursday.
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"If China does not take up the fight against AIDS seriously and actively, there could be up to 10 million people living with HIV/AIDS by 2010," Khalid Malik, U.N. resident coordinator in China, said in a statement from Beijing.
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A U.N. human rights special rapporteur on the right to education, who visited China last September, ranked China near the bottom among nations in public education funding and criticized discrimination against the children of impoverished migrant workers.

A growing imbalance between birth rates for boys and girls, because of traditional preferences for male heirs, has left a ratio of 116 boys to every 100 girls, the report said.
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