Jun 21, 2013 11:57 AM

Spoon Half Full for China's Rural School Kids

By staff reporters Lan Fang and Wang Heyan

A 2010 survey of boarding school students in four of China's poorest counties found hunger pangs, malnutrition and stunted growth appallingly common.

Some 72 percent of the more than 1,000 students questioned for the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) survey said they felt grinding hunger while in class. And up to one-third said they went hungry every day.

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