Chinese children attend a school gathering in rural areas. Some 23.65 million Chinese people in rural areas still cannot afford daily food and clothes and another 40.67 million rural residents are earning between 683 yuan (US$85) to 944 yuan per person a year, official said on Tuesday. In contrast, till 2003 China had registered about 236,000 people each with more than US$1 million in assets. [163.com/file]