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[missdaredevil]

Years of denying China's AIDS problem by the government has slowly given way to acknowledgement and action, though critics say the country has a lot of *ground* to make up.
*room for improvement* in this case?

Thanks

[bud]

That's close, but not exact. It means that they are quite far behind what other countries do to combat the problem. They need to do a lot more (=to cover a lot of ground) to catch up to what the other countries are doing.