Another big reason is the average stupidity of the 1.3 billion people who have never produced anything for the rest of the world but instead have to borrow from others. See the fact they can't even provide flush toilets for their people but allow their neighbourhoods to smell of shit. One reason is simple, as many peasants (all 800 million of them) think that sending girls to school is a waste of money if they CAN afford it. Those girls who do get the chance to go to school should also be thankful that they weren't aborted after the ultrasound scan, or left to die in a wasteland somewhere.
Even though elementary school is supposed to be compulsory, many tens of millions of children in the countryside never finish it. Even the ones who do manage to get that far have no chance at all of doing much more with their ill-educated lives than becoming either farmers or migrant workers. Some choice.
AND THIS IS AFTER 30 YEARS OF ECONOMIC REFORM!
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