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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by ThinkingGuy on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:54PM (#17193161)
I don't have a source for this, but my understanding is that much of the improvement in China's literacy rate came from the government's redefining of "literate" down to about a 1st or 2nd grade school level.

Still, I can't help but be happy at how so many people's lives have improved so greatly in such a short time.

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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by platinumrad on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:16PM (#17193474)
Simplified Chinese made a huge difference. It's one of the few undeniably good things to come from the CCP, although adopting a phonetic alphabet might have been even better.
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