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China Takes Aim at Rural Influx

The New York Times notes the razing of some 30 schools for migrant workers’ children in Beijing over the summer, affecting over 30,000 students. The demolitions, justified by the government on health and safety grounds, highlight the gaping divide between legal residence holders and outsiders in China’s major cities, which threatens to become a dangerous faultline as urbanisation contin