In late 2020, China declared victory over poverty, marking the end of a five-year campaign to raise rural incomes above $600 per year. In the essay “The Countryside Through A Daughter In-Law’s Eyes,” though, Huang Deng wrote...
The following essay was written by Huang Deng, an educated 46-year-old woman who married into a poor rural family. A PhD and currently the Deputy Director of Finance and Media at Guangdong University of Finance, Huang is also...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Notice: From June 28 onward, all...
The hukou, or household registration, system has long divided China’s urban and rural...
In a multimedia web production, Carrie Gracie of the BBC has compiled ten years of reporting from...
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
Joe Zhang, the author of “Party Man, Company Man: Is China’s State Capitalism Doomed?” and a...
With climate change on the global political agenda this week, much attention is being paid to...
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
In an interview with TIME’s Elizabeth Dias, the Dalai Lama gave some thoughts on Xi...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
In the New York Times, Ian Johnson has written a lengthy report about a model town built outside...
China researcher Mi Shih offers her insight on the new approach to rural development launched by the new regime in 2012, called chengzhenhua, or literally “city- and town-ification”. From The China Story: Chinese...
Wu Renbao, the Party chief of Huaxi Village, died of lung cancer on Monday, stirring up a debate over his dictatorial policies that created one of China’s leading rural economies. From Amy Li at South China Morning Post:...
Peter Hessler, the former New Yorker correspondent in Beijing, also wrote a best-selling book in 2001, River Town, which documented his two years teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in a town that was on the verge of...
China’s countryside, where almost half of its population still lives, lags far behind the cities in its level of development. Average incomes are less than a third of their urban counterparts, and economic migration has...
As part of incoming Premier Li Keqiang’s plan to focus on China’s urbanization, new policies will aim to develop rural regions and narrow the rural-urban divide. From Bloomberg: The government will increase...
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz visits with migrant laborers who have returned home to cities and towns in China’s interior from coastal factories, following an upsurge in investment there: Zhang Xianjun just returned from a...
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