They are typically in remote areas of poor provinces, like Shaanxi and Jiangxi.
Development experts estimate that some 2 billion people, chiefly in the rural areas of poor countries, lack access to electricity.
Girls and women carrying plastic jerry cans of water on their heads is a common sight in rural areas of poor countries.
Only about 70,000 whites remain in Zimbabwe, fewer than 2percentt of the population, but they own 70percentt of the land, while millions of rural blacks are crowded onto "communal areas" of poor, stony soil.
Social care receives £106m in two parts: £22m via the mental health grant to improve services in areas of poor provision, to help the homeless mentally ill outside London and to boost social care partnerships.
The Mali episode showed — not for the first time — how a few determined and well-trained men with guns can do a lot of harm in remote areas of poor countries.
These are users of land-based cellular phones who want to be able to extend the range of their handsets when they are travelling through areas of poor or incompatible coverage.
Nigeria achieved the same landmark on 24 January, though it has suffered some cases of vaccine-derived polio, a rare mutation from the oral polio vaccine in areas of poor sanitation.
In the slightly more elevated areas away from the main rivers there are extensive areas of poor grassland with a high water table that are used for swidden cultivation and hunting.
"We have found that, whilst supermarkets want to comply with the law and shoppers enjoy a wide range of choices, with an estimated 40% of grocery spending being on items on promotion, there are still areas of poor practice that could confuse or mislead shoppers.
Perhaps the biggest worry, though, is whether in a localised system, new national action can be planned to ramp up areas of poor or patchy care, like mental health, neurological or diabetes care and treatment, or to provide better deals for children and for older people with long-term conditions.
