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Gu Shi Gou Men - 10 October 2007 1. Farmers ploughing field with mules 2. Close-up of plough pulled by mule 3. Farmer guiding mule ploughing field 4. Wide pan of Gu Shi Men Gou on the outskirts of Beijing in the Huairou District 5. Various of farmer threshing cereal crop 6. Various of old woman sorting cereal by hand 7. Wide of people harvesting cereals and corn FILE: Beijing - 15 March 2006 8. Wide pan of National People's Congress news conference 9. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wen Jiabao, Chinese Premier: "We should make sure that those who have occupied farm land are paying the peasants adequate compensation." FILE: Hebei Province - 11 June 2005 ++AMATEUR VIDEO++ 10. Riot involving police and rural inhabitants Hong Kong - 5 October 2007 11. Mid-shot of political analyst and senior fellow at Jamestown Foundation, Willy Lam 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Willy Lam, political analyst and senior fellow at Jamestown Foundation: "We are seeing a more conscious effort on the part of the leadership to address social problems particularly polarisation of rich and poor and also divisions between the coast and hinterland so we shall see I think at least at the rhetorical level more pledges about extensions of social welfare benefits to the poorer areas, to the mountainous areas in the western parts of the country and also more transfer payments from the central coffers to the poorer regions." Gu Shi Gou Men - 10 October 2007 13. Old farmer walking to his house 14. Tilt up from dry cereal to farmer sorting cereal by hand using a wooden implement 15. Wide pan from farmer to chickens in courtyard 16. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Peng Guangqing, farmer: "My children cannot take care of me, they have their own burden. I am already very old, but my son has never been able to afford to give me any money to help me, as the Chinese tradition indicates. But, he doesn't have money either. He works as a migrant worker in the city and he has a child in school that he needs to pay tuition for, he himself is very tight. How could I ask for their money?" 17. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) two women farmers: Name not given, women farmer: "Look at her, or me, we don't have any medical insurance." Zhang Guirong, woman farmer: "We poor people cannot get the favours of our leaders, I am almost handicapped, you see my back is hurt and I cannot stand still, look at it, but I have no medical insurance or medicines, nothing!" 18. Tilt down of old man shovelling dry corn leaves Hong Kong - 5 October 2007 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Willy Lam, political analyst and senior fellow at Jamestown Foundation: "The Hu Jintao administration, I think, wants to strike a balance between the demands of economic growth on the one hand and also sustainable development as well as a more equitable division of the fruits of progress. That means, they want to make sure that at least the very poor classes including the peasants and migrant workers will have more access to social benefits, health insurance and also educational subsidies." FILE: Beijing - February 2007 20. Wide of Beijing Railway station, migrant workers arriving and leaving city 21. Migrant workers in Beijing Railway Station waiting to go home 22. Wide of migrant workers carrying baggage Gu Shi Gou Men - 10 October 2007 23. Wide of rural inhabitants pulling two wheel car along empty street 24. Various of man driving old farming tractor STORYLINE: An elite leadership meeting held in Beijing next week will be crucial in charting the future course of a country that still sees large divisions between both the rich and poor and the rural and urban communities. The Communist Party Congress, held once every five years is also an important guide in the appointment of the nations next batch of leaders. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/624719abad0437d0c58147b285e2fed5 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork