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Li Enlan at her home in Yangmiao, a village in Henan Province in China. “We eat somehow, but it’s never enough,” she said. (Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times)

Poor families in villages like Zhangyoufang still struggle to pay the school fees for their children. (Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times)

Shen Kexia and her husband had to leave their village in Henan Province to find jobs in Hangzhou, a southern coastal city. (Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times)

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[metmom]

Here’s some people who really know what it’s like to be poor.

“Poverty” in the United States is a joke.

[webschooner]

The Chinese in grinding poverty in rural areas are fleeing to the cities to join the economic boom there and improve their lives.

[beaversmom]

Obviously there are two Chinas. Send them John Edwards after he loses again.

[Zhang Fei]

Shen Kexia, 33, who left her village with her husband for work in Hangzhou, a booming southern coastal city, recently returned home for the birth of her second daughter.

It's clear that the one-child policy isn't universally enforced.