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How China Will Move 250M From Country to City in 12 Years

Will mass urbanization create growth or just destroy rural life?

(Newser) - In the 1980s, 20% of people in China lived in the city. Today, it's 53%. By 2025, the country's leaders wants 70% of the population to be city-dwellers—about 900 million people. How do you do that? Bulldoze the villages and build new cities from scratch, reports the...

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