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Mass Migration Planned For China’s Rural Population

A New York Times video and a report by Ian Johnson state that the Chinese government plans to move 250,000,000 people from farms to housing in cities in the next 12 to 15 years with a goal to place 70% of its citizens in urban areas. Johnson draws on past rural reforms to outline the problems this shift may bring: This will decisively change the character of China, where the Communist Party insist