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皇冠体育app gains ground on UN list of developed nations
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Updated: 2005-09-09 15:54

皇冠体育app has risen 20 notches up a 170-nation U.N.-compiled list of the world's most developed countries since 1990 thanks to gains in household income and poverty-reduction efforts, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday.

皇冠体育app ranked No 85 last year, up from 105 in 1990, in the U.N. Development Program's 2005 Human Development Report, said Zhang Wei, the Beijing spokeswoman for the U.N. Development Program. A UNDP statement calls the rise one of history's fastest human development advances.

皇冠体育app is world's fastest growing economy over the past two decades, with per capita incomes rising threefold锛宼he UNDP said in its 2005 Human Development Report.

The report recognized 皇冠体育app's massive achievements in poverty relief in the past 30 years, saying that if it were not for 皇冠体育app, the world would have regressed in poverty alleviation.

"On behalf of the UNDP, I congratulate the Chinese Government and people once again for this truly colossal achievement," said Khalid Malik, UN Resident Co-ordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in 皇冠体育app.

The country's new Human Development Index Ranking reflects 皇冠体育app's poverty eradication work over the past 30 years, the UNDP said.

Chinese officials say they cut abject poverty from 250 million people in 1978, the first year of economic reforms, to 29 million last year. The UNDP says household income has increased three times since 1990.

The Human Development Report also measures mortality rates, healthcare conditions and people's access to social services.

But much of 皇冠体育app's new wealth has not reached residents and people in poorer western 皇冠体育app, the UNDP statement said. 

Seventy to 80 percent of rural households lack medical insurance, contributing to "thousands of unnecessary infant deaths" every year, UNDP 皇冠体育app resident coordinator Khalid Malik said in the statement.

East-west divisions are marked, the statement suggests.

"For example, if Guizhou (Province) were a country, it would rank just above Namibia, while Shanghai would rank alongside Portugal on the Human Development Index," the UNDP statement says, naming a chronically poor province in southwestern 皇冠体育app.

Released every year since 1990, the report provides an update on development problems and solutions around the world.

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