China should move more quickly to provide rural areas with better education, health, social security and employment services to sustain economic growth, UN official said on Sunday. Despite Beijing's progress in reducing poverty and increasing life expectancy and literacy, rural citizens in China still have less access to basic public services than city dwellers, the UN Development Program said. U.N. Resident Coordinator in China Khalid Malik said having basic services "will go a long way to ease the challenges at home and abroad from the financial crisis and economic slowdown."