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February 1, 2008: The California Sunshine Foundation is a new partner of ours -- they are a charity dedicated to helping abandoned Chinese children. Their mission is to prepare Chinese orphans for a healthy, loving and productive life through nurturing, medical care and education. With education as the primary focus, CSF volunteers have helped orphans improve in vocabulary, fine motor skills, creativity, behavior and social skills and reasoning. The medical care that CSF provides have helped children stand, walk and hear. These medical interventions provide the first step necessary to make it possible for these children to begin to reach their potential.
>> Donate Now to Help Orphans in China through the California Sunshine Foundation
Other Assist International Projects in China:
>> 2003, September -- Friendship Hospital in Yining City, China
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Area: 9,596,960 sq km (slightly smaller than the US)
Capital: Beijing
Population: 1,321,851,888
Government: Communist State
Background on the Political Climate in China:
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.
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