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China's Challenges

China's Challenges

This Emmy®-winning series explores with unique access and in cinematic detail how China is tackling critical issues, including disparities in wealth and education, social clashes, severe pollution, competing priorities, and tensions between China’s rich traditional culture and its rapidly modernizing society.

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The Chinese economy has developed extremely rapidly, but at a very high cost.
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Robert Kuhn takes you inside China and explores critical issues China's new leaders face.
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We examine examples of China’s modernization challenges.
Where is China’s Economy Going? Preview
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China might be an economic juggernaut but what will it take to continue its development?
How Strong is China? Preview
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Even as its economic power continues to grow, China’s power still faces high hurdles.
Are the Chinese People Happy? Preview
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While President Xi Jinping talks about “The Chinese Dream,” people talk about their needs.
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